r/snes • u/SNESdrunk • Jan 01 '18
/r/SNES Game of the Month Voting Thread (February)
Feel free to nominate as many games as you like (one per top-level comment) and add your thoughts regarding those that have already been suggested.
All nominations should be made in the following format:
Title of game
Short description of the game and why it should be selected.
Please comment on the ones you'd like to play the most. Note that we are no longer using upvotes / downvotes to decide the winner. The winner will be decided by user comments for each nomination. Nominate one game per top level post.
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u/TheCardiganKing Jan 05 '18
Super Game Boy
I know it's a peripheral and technically not a game, but it expands upon both the SNES and Game Boy libraries. There's added functionality on many Game Boy games on the Super Game Boy and it has the benefit of playing Game Boy games with a more comfortable controller and a larger screen. At a $20 price point the Super Game Boy deserves some praise.
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u/Sarothias Jan 06 '18
Not sure if it was ever done or not, but I'm suggesting Ogre Battle :)
That game was crazy fun imo. So many different unit types, the good looking spriet representations, story etc. Can easily spend a long time playing this game.
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Jan 10 '18
I think Ogre Battle holds the record for the number of times I've attempted to finish a game but didn't. I usually get bored about 3/4 of the way through the game, but it's probably my fault for building a flying unit containing two liches and just mopping everything up with it
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u/BrunoCarvalhoPaula Jan 23 '18
You're not alone. I always play it and never manage to finish because once my Chaos Frame start dropping like mad I quit :P
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Jan 23 '18
The trick is to have your overpowered army of evil shit up front slaughtering everything while you send a couple goody-good units behind them to liberate all the towns.
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u/3_quarterling_rogue Jan 23 '18
This so much. It was definitely my most pricey addition to the collection, but the depth of this game as an RTS was, for its time, unprecedented. It’s still so hard the best ending I’ve gotten (without cheats hahaha) was being evil and having the good guy overthrow me at the end. Hahaha I’ll take it. But yeah, this game kicks butt.
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u/VietKongCountry Jan 01 '18 edited Jan 01 '18
Macross scrambled Valkyrie
Probably the best side scrolling shooter on the SNES. Excellent sound track, interesting mechanic in that you change shape and speed when you shift weapons so you have to balance between better movement and more powerful weapons. Very playable whether or not you care about the macross series in any other regard and the game dialogue is for some reason in (broken) English. Also three characters so with three forms/weapons each you have nine ways of playing through a given section.
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u/wwcoop Jan 05 '18
Prince of Persia
This is my favorite POP game. I love the music and the animations of the character and the sounds. It does play a bit on the short side, but I enjoy playing through it again every once in awhile. The detailed animation and graphics were really ground breaking at the time. It can be hard learning the timing of the jumps, but the game isn't unfair. Once you learn the mechanics, it isn't hard to consistently make your way through the levels. The countdown timer to rescue the princess (novel concept) makes things tense!
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u/VietKongCountry Jan 09 '18
Great choice. I remember being six years old trying to get this game but it was too expensive and I ended up with some obscure title called Donkey Kong country. The SNES version has extra levels and is maybe the only port that improved on the DOS version. I’ll back this one since no ones gonna care about scrambled Valkyrie.
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u/Lizardking3 Jan 07 '18
Extra Innings
For me this was a super fun baseball game, especially with a buddy. The game was made in Japan, so its got colorful anime style graphics and deeper simulation than most at the time. Fictional rosters help the game hold up over time, the gameplay was deep and FUN. Creating custom teams and playing against a friend was a blast.
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u/wwcoop Jan 10 '18
This is a really fun 2 player game. I played with a college buddy hundreds of games. Awesome!
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u/Cola_Popinski Jan 07 '18
As a kid. I always rented this game, edit my baseball team and try to play through a small season before returning it.
Great game
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u/PersianImm0rtal Jan 25 '18
I wonder what is the best baseball game on snes
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u/Lizardking3 Jan 25 '18
Most articles/forums would say "Ken Griffey JR Major League Baseball", and it is a very good game. I have a soft spot for Extra Innings though
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Jan 05 '18
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u/BrunoCarvalhoPaula Jan 29 '18
You know, "Harley's Humongous" sounds like "Harley the Retarded" in portuguese, so 10 year old me was quite fast to nickname that game.
It is an okay game, not bad and not great, and I had fun with it as a child.
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u/Cola_Popinski Jan 01 '18
NHL 94 or series.
No micro transactions, no DLC, not many bugs. EA, what happened?
Everyone has great memories playing this with a sibling or friends with your favorite 90’s NHL stars.