Ah, the SNES. One of the most successful consoles ever made, boasting an incredible games catalogue with classics such as Super Mario All Stars, Donkey Kong Country, Mario Kart, Pilotwings, Starfox, Kirby€™s Dream Land, F-Zero, Earthworm Jim, Mortal Kombat, Yoshi€™s Island and Super Metroid (to name just a few). It was also home to the Golden Age of roleplaying games (RPGs), with classic after classic being released every year €“ so why not join us for a stroll down memory lane with a list of 10 SNES RPG series you must play before you die? Maybe you'll rescue a maiden or fight a goblin or two along the way.

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Breath of Fire Dragons tend to get a pretty poor deal in the fantasy genre. Almost always classed as the villain for the simple fact of hunting food, claiming princesses and gathering gold (which is the modus operandi of every single RPG hero ever created), they€™re rarely given the chance to do much more than show up, breathe fire ineffectually at the hero€™s fire-resistant armour for a while, and then die dramatically in a shower of sparks and exp. Which is what makes Breath of Fire so refreshing €“ you actually get to control a dragon for much of the game€™s combat. Not unlike Zelda, each Breath of Fire game features an almost identical protagonist who nonetheless is supposed to be a different character every time, within an overarching timeline. Ryu, the blue-haired hero (with the extremely useful ability to shapeshift into a dragon), is invariably aided by a series of companions on his quest. The Dragon system provides the game with an interesting dynamic, and really makes this title stand out. Apart from that, however, it€™s pretty much business as usual, following the standard RPG formula to the letter.

That€™s not to say that the game is underwhelming €“ it€™s never less than entertaining, with a decent difficulty level, a wealth of sub-games to break up the monotony (fishing, anyone?) and a cast of characters you€™ll care about enough to see through to journey€™s end. Having said that, the game rarely excels, and could perhaps be seen as on a par with the Bond movies within the action genre of films; you know exactly what to expect, you know it will be competently delivered and you€™ll go home satisfied afterwards €“ to think about something else.

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Breath of Fire can hold its head up high within the genre, and is well worth checking out if you haven€™t tried it yet. Laurence Gardner was born in Canterbury, England. After moving around various cities during his childhood, and spending some time travelling in Europe and America, he studied English Literature at Oxford University. Since then, he’s been living abroad, teaching English, learning a range of languages, and writing in his free time. He can currently be found in Heidelberg, working as an English Tutor and Translator and studying at the University.

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The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) might just be the greatest video game console ever made. It dominated the market, made the adjective “super” a staple of every millennial’s vocabulary, and was home to some of the best games ever made.

When the SNES hit, the video game industry was breaking new ground in terms of what home consoles were capable of. With the introduction of the SNES, the lines between arcade-quality games and home consoles began to blur. The original NES had a, but its successor took things to a new level. The best SNES games played and looked better than anything else in existence. Some of the biggest video game franchises — Zelda, Final Fantasy, Street Fighter, etc. — achieved levels of quality that have yet to be surpassed nearly 25 years down the line.

With the impending release of the, a small emulator box that follows the wildly popular, we think it’s a good idea to revisit some of the titles that put the now-iconic console on the map. So, without further ado, below are our picks for the best SNES games of all time. Mortal Kombat II.

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Release Date: September 9, 1994 Developer: Midway Games, Sculptured Software Publisher: Acclaim Entertainment The original Mortal Kombat made waves because of its gruesome and theretofore unseen levels of violence, but the second installment made waves because it was a damn good fighting game. Admittedly, the early Mortal Kombat games have been long-since surpassed in terms of gameplay, but at the time they were something special. The hyper-violent gore was novel, but it also was one of the first game to feel like an “adult” experience. In hindsight, they were certainly more juvenile than “mature,” but along with games like, the Mortal Kombat series pushed the appropriate-content envelope and made video games appealing to older audiences. In the context of the series, Mortal Kombat II was an important game because it brought quicker gameplay and new combos that would go on to define the way subsequent games series played. Of course, Mortal Kombat III introduced new characters and expanded the series’ fiction, but from a gameplay standpoint, Mortal Kombat II was the progenitor for what the series has become today: a pillar of the fighting game genre. Release Date: August, 1992 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami For a genre as emblematic of the late ’80s and early ’90s, it may come as a surprise that this list features just a single beat ‘em up. The sad truth is, of the classic gaming genres, beat ‘em ups simply haven’t aged well as others.

A product of a time when arcade games were difficult and sought to continuously milk gamers of their pocket change, beat ‘em ups often feel repetitive and flat by today’s standards. Even by the late ’90s, video games had for the most part evolved past the “beat everyone up and move right,” design philosophy. That said, there are some games that overcame the trappings of their genre to live on as something worthwhile. Turtles in Time is, bar none, the best beat ‘em up on the SNES, and potentially the best game the genre has ever produced. Taking up the bandanna of Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, or Raphael along with a friend and testing your mettle against and a host of enemies plucked from different eras of history was every ’90s kid’s dream.

The SNES version was minor step down graphically from the arcade version, but otherwise it was a near-perfect port. The controls felt smooth and responsive, and maintained the speed and fluidity of the arcade version.

This is an integral part of what made Turtles in Time so great and why it remains a joy to play. U.S. Release Date: September 21, 1994 Developer: HAL Laboratory, Nintendo EAD Publisher: Nintendo While Kirby is better known for his classic side-scrolling adventures, his best game on the SNES was surprisingly a golf title of all things. What makes Kirby’s Dream Course such a dream to play is that the game behaves consistently, something we can’t say about other golf games on the system. The physics were by no means realistic, but they did behave logically, which made getting better at the game’s.