{"id":17151,"date":"2017-11-24T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=17151"},"modified":"2017-11-01T05:25:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T05:25:34","slug":"the-games-of-the-snes-classic-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/24\/the-games-of-the-snes-classic-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Games of the SNES Classic Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last year, Nintendo released the NES Classic Edition, a smaller sized 8-bit NES shaped console with 30 classic games.\u00a0 It\u2019s been notoriously hard to find, and I\u2019ve been a bit bummed that I haven\u2019t been able to get one.\u00a0 But I wasn\u2019t TOO upset because most of the games I played on the NES were from Capcom, not Nintendo (Mega Man and Disney games).\u00a0 But the 16-bit Super Nintendo is my all-time favorite console ever.\u00a0 It was the gaming console that really cemented my preference for console games, and the system just clicked for me for some reason.\u00a0 So when Nintendo released the SNES Classic Edition in the same vein this year, I REALLY wanted to get it.\u00a0 Luckily, my family got it for me for my birthday!\u00a0 Nintendo DID say they were making more of the SNES Classic Edition, and I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s really true or not, or if we were just more prepared this time.\u00a0 But not only was I able to get one, but three of my brothers got one, too!\u00a0 So to celebrate me getting a SNES Classic Edition, here\u2019s a blog about all the games on it!<\/p>\n

But first, some pictures.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a bigger shot of the front of the box.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the back of the box with the games on the console.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s me holding the console so you can see how small it is.<\/p>\n

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Before I get started talking about the games, I wanted to say a few things about the console itself.\u00a0 Unlike the Famicom Classic Edition, which I wrote about a few weeks ago, the SNES one does come with an outlet plug.\u00a0 So I use it for both my SNES and Famicom Classics.\u00a0 Also, the controller ports on the front of the SNES Classic aren\u2019t really controller ports.\u00a0 They\u2019re a cover for the actual ports, which look more like Wii controller outlets.\u00a0 And speaking of controllers, you get two of them and they are the exact size and shape of a SNES controller and feel SO RIGHT.\u00a0 The controllers are one of the reasons why the SNES is my favorite console.\u00a0 I don\u2019t really have a problem with the size of the cords, like everyone else does, but then, my gaming area is pretty small.\u00a0 One last thing.\u00a0 The console uses save states but many of the games you can save in the game as well.\u00a0 But you have to be careful because if you use a save state, it might erase your progress on the actual \u2018cartridge.\u2019\u00a0 So my best advice is to use one or the other (cartridge saves or save states), but not both.\u00a0 Anyway, let\u2019s take a look at the games!<\/p>\n

Super Mario World<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s not much about Super Mario World that I can say that hasn\u2019t already been said.\u00a0 It\u2019s easily one of my favorite Mario games and one of the few that I have completed 100 percent.\u00a0 I love the tight controls and the versatility of the power-ups.\u00a0 I flop back and forth between saying this or Yoshi\u2019s Island is my favorite 2-D Mario game.\u00a0 But did you know that Super Mario World was NOT the first game I played on my SNES?\u00a0 Nope!\u00a0 I actually got my SNES (also for my birthday) two weeks before it came out in other stores.\u00a0 A guy was selling them (cheaper) at Canton Trade Days (Texans may know what that is), but before you say he was selling them illegally, keep in mind this was before consoles and games had official release dates.\u00a0 Anyway, I wasn\u2019t supposed to open the SNES until my actual birthday, but when we saw the local movie rental place already had SNES games out to rent, and nobody was renting them because nobody else had a SNES yet, we rented Gradius 3 so that was the first thing I popped into the SNES, not Mario World.\u00a0 Strange, huh?<\/p>\n

Super Mario Kart<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I first saw preview images of this game in magazines, I knew it would be a big hit.\u00a0 And I was right!\u00a0 It practically created a game genre!\u00a0 Super Mario Kart is actually one of my top five favorite games of all time.\u00a0 I enjoyed it in high school, revisited it again in college and still enjoyed it, and that\u2019s why it\u2019s one of my favorites.\u00a0 I was worried that it hasn\u2019t aged as well, but when I fired it up on the SNES Classic, it still holds up very well today!\u00a0 So it still goes on my top five list.<\/p>\n

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars<\/strong><\/p>\n

When people make \u2018best Mario RPG\u2019 lists, they usually put this one at the top.\u00a0 When I made mine, I put this rather far down on the list because I thought some of the Paper Mario and Mario & Luigi games were better.\u00a0 But however, this is still a FANTASTIC game.\u00a0 I played it to death back in the day and found all the secrets.\u00a0 And it\u2019s one of the first games I fired up on the SNES Classic.\u00a0 It\u2019s kind of interesting to play it now because it was one of the last Mario games to come out before Mario 64, so Mario didn\u2019t have a voice yet and Princess Peach was still called Toadstool.\u00a0 This was also one of the last games Square made for Nintendo for a very long while, before they jumped to Sony and helped change the game industry.<\/p>\n

Yoshi\u2019s Island<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 2-D platforming masterpiece.\u00a0 I like how it\u2019s kind of a rebellious game because 3-D rendered Donkey Kong Country graphics were all the rage, and yet Nintendo was like, \u201cNope, we\u2019re going to make this game look like a five year old colored it with crayons.\u201d\u00a0 Gameplay was changed so much that it helped Yoshi be a stand alone character and have his own series of games.\u00a0 Some of them are great, but nothing beats the first.\u00a0 Yoshi\u2019s Island is also a special game to me because I enjoyed playing it with my little brothers, and even my college roommate\u2019s girlfriend (now wife) loved this game so much that she bought a TV and SNES for her own dorm room so she could play it.\u00a0 Even though she was in our dorm room 90 percent of the time (which was fine by me because they were both good friends and I enjoyed having them around).<\/p>\n

Super Metroid<\/strong><\/p>\n

Like Super Mario World, there\u2019s not much to be said about this game that hasn\u2019t already been said.\u00a0 It\u2019s one of, if not the best, Metroid game ever made (although that new 2D one is pretty good in places).\u00a0 I do have a funny story about the game that involved my little brother Jeff.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve told this story before, but I like it so I\u2019m telling it again here.\u00a0 Like other little boys, when Jeff was very young he loved to play with action figures.\u00a0 Usually his play scenarios would go like this:\u00a0 A big plush orange plush Triceratops was threatening the land.\u00a0 The Power Rangers couldn\u2019t stop it.\u00a0 Batman couldn\u2019t stop it.\u00a0 But the Mega Man action figure I gave him would always save the day (I guess I was a big influence on him).\u00a0 One day around this time I was playing Super Metroid and he was watching.\u00a0 You know the part of the game where the Baby Metroid saves Samus and then Mother Brain destroys it?\u00a0 Well I looked over at Jeff after that and he was in tears.\u00a0 \u201cIs the *sniff* Baby Metroid *sniffle* gonna be okay?\u201d he bawled.\u00a0 From then on, during his action figure play time, not even Mega Man could defeat the big orange Triceratops.\u00a0 But a Ty Beanie Baby Jellyfish, which he now dubbed the Baby Metroid, would always save the day.<\/p>\n

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past<\/strong><\/p>\n

My favorite Zelda game may be Link\u2019s Awakening, but Link to the Past is my second favorite.\u00a0 I played this game to death when it was new.\u00a0 In fact, the reason why I was able to breeze through A Link Between Worlds so quickly is because aside from the wall walking game mechanic, both games are practically identical.\u00a0 Many modern Zelda games still use puzzle ideas that first started in Link to the Past, so it\u2019s a very important game for the franchise.<\/p>\n

Super Punch Out<\/strong><\/p>\n

I never was a big fan of the Punch Out games.\u00a0 I saw it in the arcades a lot but could never play it because the bigger kids hogged it.\u00a0 Most of my friends had Mike Tyson\u2019s Punch Out, but I was never very good at it.\u00a0 I did rent the SNES Punch Out game once to see what it was like.\u00a0 Never did mess with the Wii version.\u00a0 However, my brother Jeff LOVES the Punch Out games.\u00a0 He\u2019s one of my brothers who got the SNES Classic Edition, too, and he\u2019s been playing Super Punch Out a lot on his.<\/p>\n

F-Zero<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another game I was never a fan of, but that doesn\u2019t mean I hate it or anything.\u00a0 I did rent it and play it at other\u2019s houses.\u00a0 It\u2019s just kind of hard and somewhat bare bones for a racer.\u00a0 But I tell you what, back then, those Mode 7 effects were mind blowing!\u00a0 My favorite characters are the fat samurai guy in the pink car, and in later games, Mrs. Arrow.<\/p>\n

Donkey Kong Country<\/strong><\/p>\n

While I think this game is slightly overrated, it\u2019s still a fun 2-D platformer with absolutely amazing graphics and sound.\u00a0 Just go listen to \u201cAquatic Ambience\u201d on YouTube and tell me you weren\u2019t surprised that was coming from a SNES!\u00a0 I do wish the sequels were also on here, though.\u00a0 DKC3 is a special game to me because it was one of the first games I reviewed at The Dallas Morning News back when I first starting reviewing games over 20 years ago.\u00a0 Rare really helped carry Nintendo through the late SNES years and N64 times, didn\u2019t they?\u00a0 I do have a funny story about DKC, too.\u00a0 When my brother Jeff was very young and could barely talk, I showed him Donkey Kong Country.\u00a0 He stared at it, and when our mom came into the room, he looked at her, pointed at the TV, and just babbled nonstop!\u00a0 I think he liked it.\u00a0 A short while later, one of his very first words was \u201cDonkey Kong\u201d so he could tell me he wanted to play it!<\/p>\n

Kirby Super Star<\/strong><\/p>\n

To this day this is one of the best Kirby games out there, and many Kirby games look to Super Star as a template.\u00a0 It came out late in the SNES lifespan so it\u2019s a technical marvel as well.\u00a0 I have so many good memories playing this game with my little brothers.\u00a0 My brother Jeff, who plays all sorts of mature games now like Call of Duty and such, will still pull out this game from time to time.\u00a0 I\u2019m also glad they used The Great Cave Offensive as a stage in the last Super Smash Bros. game.<\/p>\n

Kirby\u2019s Dream Course<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did you know that I wasn\u2019t a Kirby fan right from the start?\u00a0 For whatever reason, I skipped out on the first few Kirby games.\u00a0 It was actually this game that got me to be a Kirby fan.\u00a0 When the SNES first came out, they advertised an upcoming game called Special Tee Shot.\u00a0 From the screens it looked like a cross between mini golf and Marble Madness, two things I like, so I made a mental note to myself to check it out.\u00a0 Well that game never came out (actually it did in Japan on the SNES satellite thing they had), but most of the game was reworked into Kirby\u2019s Dream Course.\u00a0 So I rented it once and was blown away.\u00a0 Later I did eventually buy it when the price went down (by then I was a poor college student), but after I played this game, I went back and played all the other Kirby games I had missed out on.<\/p>\n

Earthbound<\/strong><\/p>\n

You guys are going to hate me for what I\u2019m about to say, but when I first played Earthbound, I really didn\u2019t like it.\u00a0 In fact, my audition to write game reviews for The Dallas Morning News required me to write two reviews.\u00a0 One for a game I did like, and one for a game I didn\u2019t like.\u00a0 Since I was big into RPGs at the time, the review for the game I did like was Final Fantasy 3, and the one for the game I didn\u2019t like\u2026was Earthbound.\u00a0 But here\u2019s the thing.\u00a0 The game had a pretty crazy storyline.\u00a0 Most of the time, I would like that.\u00a0 But in this game, it was so nonsensical that it was hard to know where to go next.\u00a0 The game came packed with a strategy guide for a reason, folks. Also, the battles felt a bit dated.\u00a0 I was so used to all these modern battles in FF3 and whatnot, and Earthbound\u2019s battles felt like they could\u2019ve been done on the NES.\u00a0 But you know, I\u2019m willing to give this game a second chance, so now that I have it on the SNES Classic Edition, I just might do that one of these days.\u00a0 There is one good thing I\u2019ll say about Earthbound.\u00a0 Before it came out, translated RPG text always felt a bit stilted.\u00a0 No disrespect for the translators at the time, I\u2019m sure they were doing all they could.\u00a0 But it was games like Earthbound and Super Mario RPG that really paved the way for modern RPG translation.\u00a0 The text just flows smoother and has more relevant humor.<\/p>\n

Final Fantasy 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

And speaking of Final Fantasy 3 (or 6), you know that two of my top five favorite games of all time are on this collection.\u00a0 You already read that Super Mario Kart was one of those on my list.\u00a0 Well, FF3 is the other one.\u00a0 Many people put this at the top of their best RPG lists, and for good reason.\u00a0 The graphics are detailed, the characters are interesting, the story is mind blowing, and the music is video game soundtrack perfection.\u00a0 I could go on and on about this game.\u00a0 My favorite FF hero (Terra), and my favorite FF villain (Kefka) come from this game.<\/p>\n

Secret of Mana<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was a huge Square junkie during the SNES days and played all their games.\u00a0 This was a neat action RPG with unique music and pastel graphics.\u00a0 It was buggy as hell, but it was originally meant to be on the SNES CD add on that never came out.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait for the remake that\u2019s coming out next year!<\/p>\n

Mega Man X<\/strong><\/p>\n

While I prefer original Mega Man, the first Mega Man X was exactly what the series needed at that time to keep it fresh and interesting.\u00a0 I played this game so much back then that I could find all the secrets and beat it in record time.\u00a0 To this day I can play through it and not break a sweat.\u00a0 It\u2019s just an awesome 16-bit action game.\u00a0 Oh yeah, you know how my little brother Jeff cried when the Baby Metroid died?\u00a0 Well he did the same thing here when Zero died at the end of this game.\u00a0 At any rate, MMX is one of my favorite Mega Man games, right on up there with MM3, MM2, and MM8.<\/p>\n

Street Fighter 2 Turbo: Hyper Fighting<\/strong><\/p>\n

I never really liked Street Fighter 2 when I was young.\u00a0 I took one look at those six buttons and thought, \u201cHow am I supposed to play this game?\u00a0 I only have five fingers!\u201d\u00a0 But all my friends played it so I had to at least watch them.\u00a0 We would walk to gas stations just to play it (back then, gas stations and even grocery stores had arcade games).\u00a0 I guess it was a technical feat to cram the arcade game on the SNES.\u00a0 I remember renting it once just so I could get my friends to come over and play it, and it worked!\u00a0 I think the version on this collection is the one that let you play as the bosses.\u00a0 I wish that they would\u2019ve put in the Super version that came after it so I could play as Cammy, my favorite SF character.\u00a0 But oh well, no big deal.\u00a0 I think the Super Famicom Classic Edition has that version on it.\u00a0 But I probably won\u2019t get that one even though I got the Famicom Classic Edition because by that time, games were a bit more text heavy.<\/p>\n

Super Ghouls N Ghosts<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know what\u2019s cool is that even the games that I didn\u2019t own on this collection, I at least rented them once.\u00a0 Such was the case with this game.\u00a0 I liked the graphics and sounds, but I was never a big fan of the Ghosts N Goblins series.\u00a0 Never did like the ridiculous difficulty.\u00a0 Plus this game has already been on several classic collections already.\u00a0 This would be the first game I would omit if I were in charge of choosing which games would be on this collection.<\/p>\n

Contra 3: The Alien Wars<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another game I rented, but never bought.\u00a0 It\u2019s a neat action game, but also too stupid hard.\u00a0 I did like how you could hold two weapons and shoot them both like a badass.\u00a0 Like the Contra games on the NES, I only had fun with this game when I played it with friends.<\/p>\n

Super Castlevania IV<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah I rented this one, too.\u00a0 Never was a Castlevania fan, but I did have to check this one out to see what it was like.\u00a0 The music was neat and I liked how you could flail your whip around everywhere, but I didn\u2019t get very far since I\u2019m not good at Castlevania games.<\/p>\n

Star Fox<\/strong><\/p>\n

Originally I wasn\u2019t going to get this game, but my friend called me when it came out and said I had to get it and the intro was really cool.\u00a0 I trusted my friend a lot, so I did get the game and he was right, the intro was pretty cool.\u00a0 Even though it was a basic on-rails shooter, it was still fun and looked pretty advanced at the time\u2026for a short while anyway.\u00a0 While it didn\u2019t hold my attention as much as other SNES games did, it was fun to find all the hidden pathways and weird secrets.<\/p>\n

Star Fox 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the big deal on this collection.\u00a0 Star Fox 2 was never released on the original SNES, even though it was practically finished.\u00a0 But now you can play it on this mini console!\u00a0 While it is kind of interesting to see how some ideas originated from this game, like certain missions, Star Wolf, and the walker mode, I didn\u2019t really like this game that much.\u00a0 The on-rails shooter modes have been replaced by 3-D dogfights, which I don\u2019t like.\u00a0 And the frantic pace of trying to defend your home planet from missile attacks makes it more stressful than fun to me.\u00a0 But it is still interesting to finally see this lost Star Fox game in action. I wonder if Nintendo gave some sort of compensation to the folks at Argonaut, who made this game, since from what I\u2019ve read, they kind of screwed them over back then.<\/p>\n

And those are all the games!\u00a0 I do wish they could\u2019ve put other games on here like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 2, but I guess they already had three RPGs on here.\u00a0 But the SNES was best known for its awesome RPG library.\u00a0 At any rate, I really, really like this mini console.\u00a0 If I had no other games to play but this console, I\u2019d be perfectly happy for a very long time.\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last year, Nintendo released the NES Classic Edition, a smaller sized 8-bit NES shaped console with 30 classic games.\u00a0 It\u2019s been notoriously hard to find, and I\u2019ve been a bit bummed that I haven\u2019t been able to get one.\u00a0 But I wasn\u2019t TOO upset because most of the games I played on the NES were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17153,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17151\/revisions\/17153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}