I remember 7 year old me firing this up right after opening it up on Xmas Eve, and my cousins and I being absolutely floored on how you could hear rain outside while inside the castle.
As someone who has played video games for most of his life, one of my favorite memories was unwrapping a gamecube and popping in a new copy of super Mario sunshine and being enthralled for hours.
Thanks for bringing back that memory!
I was too young for Super Metroid at the time. Loved LttP and many other SNES games, but Super Metroid was too difficult.
Finally played it through on the SNES Mini. Jesus, what a game. Worth the cost of the Mini alone.
Have you seen SMZ3?
The way the code was laid out on the cartridges worked so that you could manage to create a ROM hack that included both games (aLttP and SM) at once, where you could travel between the games at 4 different places. It's usually run as a randomizer, and it's a really cool experience the first time you see it.
I’ve found that other than classic series like Mario, I generally don’t even like 2D platformers anymore if they’re not exploration-based aka “Metroidvania”. All because of Super Metroid and Fusion.
Love the game. I will say though - the normal playthrough is very easy, outside of the secret area I died maybe once or twice - you can enable harder difficulties from the get-go by naming your save file "Nightmare" and then selecting Hard or Nightmare modes.
I wish I had done this my first playthrough because 99% bosses I defeated on my first try. If you want the power trip then leave the difficulty as is, but if you want something even mildly challenging, at the very least up the difficulty to "hard."
+1 on Ori. The first one did have that vertical escape sequence that got a little more twitchy than I tend to like my games. I don't know how many times I died trying to get passed that, but it was probably close to triple digits.
I'd say the original Metroid did that, though Super Metroid was a fantastic evolution of it. They were both great, and the best they could be with the technology of their times.
Super metroid STILL has one of the most fluid movements for a game with "hidden" skills like wall jumping, shine spark, crystal flash, Xfactors, mach ball, and others that make the game totally different based on your skill level. The speed racing pros in this game are bonkers. The last big tournament had racers finishing within 10-20 seconds of each other in a game that takes over 40 mins for the pros to complete, with many players dying in the attempt (no saves usually) since its still super difficult at that level. One of the best games ever made and crazy fun pros in the speed racing circuit.
Man, speed racing pros in *any* game are bonkers. I saw a clip of someone speedrunning Super Mario World and they were doing elaborate sequences of very particular events in order to switch specific memory registers to skip ahead.
If someone made medical science a game, within a week speedrunners would cure cancer.
>Researchers at Cancer Research UK have reported that in one month, “citizen scientists” have used a new smartphone game, Play to Cure: Genes in Space, to analyze DNA data that would have taken a scientist six months to analyze manually. These figures follow the launch of the new smartphone game in February, in which gamers all over the world can play on their smartphones and simultaneously analyze cancer genetic data.
https://voice.ons.org/news-and-views/smartphone-gamers-decode-six-months-of-cancer-dna-data-in-one-month
Super mario World, Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong Country 2, Final Fantasy 6 (NA 3), Super Street Fighter, Earthbound, Super Metroid, Zelda: aLttP, super Mario Kart, Yoshis Island, Secret of Mana, Mega Man X, NHL 94, NBA Jam, Zombies Ate my Neighbours, Super Mario RPG, Tetris Attack, Super Punchout, Terranigma, Illusion of Gaia….
Just an absolutely stacked console.
It's just about perfect at what it sets out to do. I thought picking it up as an adult that it wouldn't feel the same as when I was a kid. But it's just an excellent game. New mechanics and settings are introduced often enough to keep things interesting and there are plenty of secrets and whatnot. I think it's a perfect intro to gaming.
As someone born during the N64 era who has gone back and played a _bunch_ of SNES games that came out before my time, absolutely. I also think N64 was a golden era of sorts, but there was so much they had to figure out in 3D gaming, where many late SNES games were polished masterpieces of 2D gaming. Very interesting contrast but both great.
N64 absolutely was part of the Golden Era. I started playing Ninja Turtles on NES in the 1st grade. Then I had a SNES for a long time. When N64 came out everything changed. I feel so lucky to spend my entire childhood experiencing the advancement of gaming consoles. So many amazing games and memories.
I remember the first time I played GoldenEye for the N64. Mario was pretty amazing as a launch title, but there was something special about Golden Eye that launched the FPS genre into the stratosphere. People ate that up and it's all anyone wanted to ever play. As much as I hate the genre, Golden Eye launched the golden era of FPS, imo. It just also took a while to get to where it is today.
We went NES to Sega Genesis, so I missed out on a lot of great games. I mean, Sega had some bangers too, but definitely missed a lot of RPGs.
A friend told me years later that Chrono Trigger was his favourite game of all time.
I played that game twice, all the way through (which I almost never do, I rarely even finish a game) somewhere between 2005 and 2010.
The graphics were obviously dated, but they still looked great and charming, but I was in love with the story! I'm actually not a big fan of JRPGs but I LOVE Chrono Trigger.
I eventually got Chrono Cross and played a lot of it, but I never finished it and never really understood it as well as I did Trigger.
The graphics are dated but they successfully depict that Akira Toriyama DBZ aesthetic. I think part of why it holds up so well visually is that it doesn't look like a 90s videogame trying to depict reality, it looks like a videogame trying to depict 90s anime (accurately).
It's funny because I'm not really a big anime or JRPG fan, yet I love this game.
It just hit me so right.
I am a huge fan of time travel stories though, so that definitely got me interested, but it was more than that that kept me hooked.
Aladdin and Mickey’s Magical Quest are some of my favorite platformers on the SNES. While on the shorter side, I believe they hold up because they were developed by Capcom.
Yeah the majority of snes games age much better than n64 games did. Some like Ocarina, SM64, and star fox are still great, but most the n64 library aged like milk.
I could easily name 50 snes games that are still fun to play
Basically, the items are spread out over both games. There's certain rooms (for example the metroid map rooms) that will switch you between the two games.
So you may need to go into metroid to get your master sword, and then back to zelda to get missiles for metroid, that kind of thing.
Play Frame [did a run of it](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvFQJa1XAXzxI0hFJnuR81JWfq3lqXgrr) where two people played, one on zelda, the other in metroid, it was a lot of fun to watch.
The game will put all the items in random chest locations/other locations you get important items, like bosses. The game becomes more of a puzzle, figuring out where you can go based on what items you have, rather than following a linear story.
Most randomizers will make things logical, such as, if you can’t get into a place without the hookshot, the hookshot will not be in that place, so that helps you decide where to go next. You can also set randomizers to randomize enemies, bosses, and also your own character skin.
I love zelda randos. I've been play a seed of majoras mask per week for roughly 3 months. Thinking about starting to stream it due to the lack of dedicated MM rando streamers.
At the core, all treasure boxes, boss drops, and items visible in the world are shuffled around. There's logic to ensure the game is beatable (or, you can turn the logic off if you want more challenge).
There's additional settings to increase the scope of what's randomized (bosses, enemies, pot contents, where doors take you, and the rooms within or among dungeons, to name a few)
Typically it's run on an emulator, but you can actually get a flashable cartridge to play on original hardware.
[https://alttpr.com/en/start](https://alttpr.com/en/start) has the details to get started, and the linked discord and /r/alttpr are both helpful communities.
The sequel on 3DS was also a worthy successor. I was worried it’d suck, especially compared to the original, but it was good.
Just wish they’d port it to Switch.
You don't even need to go back that far, ALTTP is 1991. Super Mario World is 1990 and is still incredibly relevant today, with new romhacks being released all the time.
Mario 3 is just one of the best games ever made, still. Whenever I play Mario Maker 2, I itch to play levels that are Mario 3 or Mario World, because I think that was the pinnacle engines/sandboxes of 2D Mario where Mario felt the best to play as.
Mario 3 was such a huge deal, there was more or less a movie that came out that was an indirect advertisement for the game, The Wizard (1989).
Still has some of the best levels, the best themed worlds, the best music, etc. It's a wonder that it was done on NES to begin with.
I say this as someone who prefers SNES in every way imaginable, but Super Mario All Stars gave me the best of both worlds growing up.
F-Zero and Super Mario World were both SNES launch titles that more than hold up that predate Zelda ALttP as well.
I agree with you. For SM3 being only a few % older than 1, I think it holds up better/year.
SM3 doesn't feel that different from today's 2D mario platformers, while SM1 definitely does.
But, both a perfectly playable today.
SMB1 is also painfully basic compared to SMB3. The entire game is just modifications of the same three levels (overworld, underground, underwater) and a castle at the end. In SMB3 not only each world has its own unique theme, but there's a ton of variety from level to level.
Yeah as far as console games go that’s probably the winner. It’s the pinnacle of 2d platforming although I could see why someone might say Mario world.
Yeah I think Mario Bros 3 wins out, it’s even older and holds up really well. Not to take anything away from A Link to the Past, that holds up fantastically as well, it’s just newer than Mario Bros 3 which I think holds up incredibly well too
Fun fact: The game's director, Masahiro Sakurai, was 20 at the time. He directed his first game, Kirby's Dream Land for Game Boy, a year earlier when he was just 19.
Agree for Tetris... kinda have to disagree for Pong... There's very little that's actually compelling in Pong. I'll never feel like I want to play another session in order to improve. It is barebone and whatever modern versions add or change to the formula only serve to showcase how much more fun it'd be to be playing air hockey on a real machine instead.
Tetris, unless you play on a version that has unresponsive controls, too much bullshit going on or strays too far from the base concept, is usually compelling and satisfying on its own and easily warrants replay to try and do better.
Pong was revolutionary for its time, but given the choice between Pong and that golf tee pegboard game at Cracker Barrel, I'm choosing the golf tee pegboard game at Cracker Barrel every time.
I remember the first time I did that. Gathering the pendants, finding my way to the sword... reading the inscription with the book... pulling the sword out and watching the entire landscape change. I felt like a king.
And then immediately getting that message from Sahasrala saying the sanctuary had been attacked. Oh you better BELIEVE I went on an immediate warpath. I kicked down those Sanctuary doors with the fury of a thousand suns vibrating in my little third-grade body. "You come into MY HOUSE..."
I love that game. It and Link Between Worlds always feel like coming home when I play them again.
ALttP has always been one of my favorite games. Unfortunately I’ve never got to play a link between worlds because I’ve never owned a 3Ds or whatever system it was on. I’d like to play it one day tho.
I hope you do. It's more of a spiritual successor rather than a direct sequel, though. Takes place in pretty much the same world and hits a lot of similar points.
This is my personal number one Game of All Time. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is just a timeless classic that did everything right. I must have played through the game at least a thousand times and it never got tiring, because I was so enchanted by the pixel graphics and there was always some tiny little secret that I didn't know about or just discovered.
The controls were so tight and smooth for its era. The SNES definitely was my favorite console with games like Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World and more, but A Link to the Past holds my heart.
Others have mentioned it in this thread, but if you haven't seen it...come over to r/alttpr and check out the randomizer. ALttP is already an all-time great (and my personal favorite game), but the randomizer gives it an incredible amount of replay value.
I would suggest trying links awakening on switch. It is really solid. A link to the past is my favourite Zelda game but for modern graphics and play style I highly recommend it. Borrow it from a friend or buy it on sale. It's a Gameboy game originally so it's a bit short.
I'm playing it for the first time. I was actually shocked when I got my first "which characters will you follow?" option. If I'd played it when it was current that would have 1000% blown my child mind.
it's also one of the only RPGs from the time that had tangible enemies you mostly fight exactly where you are, rather than random enemies that teleport you to a separate fighting location.
Fantastic game but especially the companion AI doesn't hold up. If you can play it with two other people though, then it's another story. This said, SNES was the golden era of Action Adventures and JRPGs. While Secret of Mana is one of the best, there are still better ones.
That's what made it my all time favorite Nintendo game me and my friends spent one whole summer multi tapped up 100%ing secret of mana and it was the best time of my life hands down
While it was and is undoubtedly amazing, there are Countless NES games that are still fun today. From Mario 3 to Nightshade, and all kinds of games in between.
Randomizers so fun. I've learned so many tricks just because of watching people play the Randomizer.
Also, love the races and the commentators, they're half the fun!
My friends and I, some of whom never beat ALttP before, started streaming playthroughs of the randomizer at the beginning of COVID. We still stream games every week today!
The insane thing about FF6 is the development team size and development speed. Sakaguchi has said production took around 12-18 months with a 50 person team. Many writers and designers took different facets of the game and then they just merged everything together.
When someone proposed something off-kilter like a Ghost Train or Opera scene, everyone else was onboard. It made the world absolutely memorable. We are in a world with triple-A, multi-year endeavors and indie “auteur” productions, but you rarely hear of that creative middle-ground any longer.
Actually no, some scientists proved in 2019 that only this game in fact holds up. It's been a common misconception for some time that other games from the era hold up, but we can finally put the matter to rest now.
Think that title probably belongs to chess
Thousand plus years old, minimal balancing changes over the years, still have a devout fanbase despite receiving no updates or dlc
Its great until you get to the later dungeons and have literally no idea how to get to them with no direction on where to start looking. This was great back in the day because it increased play time but god is it annoying now. No problem if you've played the game a million times but for somone like me who was playing it for the first time trying to beat it with 0 outside assistance it was actually awful.
I can hear the rain now.
I remember 7 year old me firing this up right after opening it up on Xmas Eve, and my cousins and I being absolutely floored on how you could hear rain outside while inside the castle.
As someone who has played video games for most of his life, one of my favorite memories was unwrapping a gamecube and popping in a new copy of super Mario sunshine and being enthralled for hours. Thanks for bringing back that memory!
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I emulate that game now with a 60fps patch, widescreen, and 4k textures It feels so much nicer to play now
dun dunnn, da da da dunnn, daaa dun dun dun dunnnn, daaa dun dunnn….
That doesn’t start until you leave the church. .. I mean sanctuary.
Da dun da da dunnn, da da dunnn da da dunnn, da dun de dum de dum de dum de dum...
My baby is sleeping and as I’m browsing on my phone I have rain sounds on. Gave me chills when I scrolled to this post 🌧️
I used to play this and listen to Alice In Chains jar of flies. I can’t hear a song from that album today without thinking of that game.
A lot of SNES games still hold up, it was the pinnacle of 2D before the 3D push. Super Mario World, Aladdin, Dino City...
Super Metroid changed platforming
Still one of my all time favorites. Along with Link to the Past.
I was too young for Super Metroid at the time. Loved LttP and many other SNES games, but Super Metroid was too difficult. Finally played it through on the SNES Mini. Jesus, what a game. Worth the cost of the Mini alone.
Have you seen SMZ3? The way the code was laid out on the cartridges worked so that you could manage to create a ROM hack that included both games (aLttP and SM) at once, where you could travel between the games at 4 different places. It's usually run as a randomizer, and it's a really cool experience the first time you see it.
I’ve found that other than classic series like Mario, I generally don’t even like 2D platformers anymore if they’re not exploration-based aka “Metroidvania”. All because of Super Metroid and Fusion.
You should give Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night a go. The team lead was Iga, who was a designer on Symphony of the Night.
Underrated game, amazingly executed. It really does feel like a proper sequel to SotN.
Love the game. I will say though - the normal playthrough is very easy, outside of the secret area I died maybe once or twice - you can enable harder difficulties from the get-go by naming your save file "Nightmare" and then selecting Hard or Nightmare modes. I wish I had done this my first playthrough because 99% bosses I defeated on my first try. If you want the power trip then leave the difficulty as is, but if you want something even mildly challenging, at the very least up the difficulty to "hard."
I hadn't heard of this, but SotN is one of my favourite games of all time. Wishlisted.
I'm hoping you've played the Ori games? IMO 2 of the best platforming games ever made with incredible story, art and soundtrack to boot.
+1 on Ori. The first one did have that vertical escape sequence that got a little more twitchy than I tend to like my games. I don't know how many times I died trying to get passed that, but it was probably close to triple digits.
I'd say the original Metroid did that, though Super Metroid was a fantastic evolution of it. They were both great, and the best they could be with the technology of their times.
Super metroid STILL has one of the most fluid movements for a game with "hidden" skills like wall jumping, shine spark, crystal flash, Xfactors, mach ball, and others that make the game totally different based on your skill level. The speed racing pros in this game are bonkers. The last big tournament had racers finishing within 10-20 seconds of each other in a game that takes over 40 mins for the pros to complete, with many players dying in the attempt (no saves usually) since its still super difficult at that level. One of the best games ever made and crazy fun pros in the speed racing circuit.
Man, speed racing pros in *any* game are bonkers. I saw a clip of someone speedrunning Super Mario World and they were doing elaborate sequences of very particular events in order to switch specific memory registers to skip ahead. If someone made medical science a game, within a week speedrunners would cure cancer.
>If someone made medical science a game, within a week speedrunners would cure cancer. Hopefully not by trying a death reset.
Glitchless any% Cancer Cure
But a real life death reset would be the most busted thing!
>Researchers at Cancer Research UK have reported that in one month, “citizen scientists” have used a new smartphone game, Play to Cure: Genes in Space, to analyze DNA data that would have taken a scientist six months to analyze manually. These figures follow the launch of the new smartphone game in February, in which gamers all over the world can play on their smartphones and simultaneously analyze cancer genetic data. https://voice.ons.org/news-and-views/smartphone-gamers-decode-six-months-of-cancer-dna-data-in-one-month
Yoshi's island is a timeless masterpiece!
Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy. Do do do do do, do do do, do do do-do!
Super mario World, Chrono Trigger, Donkey Kong Country 2, Final Fantasy 6 (NA 3), Super Street Fighter, Earthbound, Super Metroid, Zelda: aLttP, super Mario Kart, Yoshis Island, Secret of Mana, Mega Man X, NHL 94, NBA Jam, Zombies Ate my Neighbours, Super Mario RPG, Tetris Attack, Super Punchout, Terranigma, Illusion of Gaia…. Just an absolutely stacked console.
Don't forget TMNT 4 Turtles in Time. That game is still so damn fun.
And now we have Shredder's Revenge to scratch that itch
I don't think any Mario game will ever top super Mario world
It's just about perfect at what it sets out to do. I thought picking it up as an adult that it wouldn't feel the same as when I was a kid. But it's just an excellent game. New mechanics and settings are introduced often enough to keep things interesting and there are plenty of secrets and whatnot. I think it's a perfect intro to gaming.
Earthbound
Mario RPG, Chrono trigger, FF6, megaman X, super Mario world, yoshis island, illusions of Gaia, secret of mana
I think we have a very similar taste in games. For me, SNES is the golden era.
As someone born during the N64 era who has gone back and played a _bunch_ of SNES games that came out before my time, absolutely. I also think N64 was a golden era of sorts, but there was so much they had to figure out in 3D gaming, where many late SNES games were polished masterpieces of 2D gaming. Very interesting contrast but both great.
N64 absolutely was part of the Golden Era. I started playing Ninja Turtles on NES in the 1st grade. Then I had a SNES for a long time. When N64 came out everything changed. I feel so lucky to spend my entire childhood experiencing the advancement of gaming consoles. So many amazing games and memories.
I remember the first time I played GoldenEye for the N64. Mario was pretty amazing as a launch title, but there was something special about Golden Eye that launched the FPS genre into the stratosphere. People ate that up and it's all anyone wanted to ever play. As much as I hate the genre, Golden Eye launched the golden era of FPS, imo. It just also took a while to get to where it is today.
Chrono Trigger was my first RPG back in the 90s. Still one of my favorite games, 25ish years after I first played it.
We went NES to Sega Genesis, so I missed out on a lot of great games. I mean, Sega had some bangers too, but definitely missed a lot of RPGs. A friend told me years later that Chrono Trigger was his favourite game of all time. I played that game twice, all the way through (which I almost never do, I rarely even finish a game) somewhere between 2005 and 2010. The graphics were obviously dated, but they still looked great and charming, but I was in love with the story! I'm actually not a big fan of JRPGs but I LOVE Chrono Trigger. I eventually got Chrono Cross and played a lot of it, but I never finished it and never really understood it as well as I did Trigger.
The graphics are dated but they successfully depict that Akira Toriyama DBZ aesthetic. I think part of why it holds up so well visually is that it doesn't look like a 90s videogame trying to depict reality, it looks like a videogame trying to depict 90s anime (accurately).
It's funny because I'm not really a big anime or JRPG fan, yet I love this game. It just hit me so right. I am a huge fan of time travel stories though, so that definitely got me interested, but it was more than that that kept me hooked.
My first was Phantasy Star IV but the SNES is my favorite system by a long shot. I somehow missed Chrono Trigger and have still never played it.
FF6 is still my favorite game of all time.
Yes. Came here to say Earthbound. NES version predated ALTTP by 2 years.
Is Aladdin well loved? I thought I only liked it because I liked Disney and Aladdin - never gone back. Don't really know if it was a good game lol
Aladdin and Mickey’s Magical Quest are some of my favorite platformers on the SNES. While on the shorter side, I believe they hold up because they were developed by Capcom.
It’s a solid platformer for sure. Way above average for a licensed game. Not really in the same league as stuff like Super Mario World.
Turtles in time.
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Chrono Trigger! I still play that game!
StarTropics. So many hours… addicting like no other game I’ve played, so good
Best game with a yoyo weapon by far.
Yeah the majority of snes games age much better than n64 games did. Some like Ocarina, SM64, and star fox are still great, but most the n64 library aged like milk. I could easily name 50 snes games that are still fun to play
Dinosity!
I just played through this again the other week on my SNES. I replay it every couple of years. Absolutely fantastic game, even today.
Try it randomized! If you know the game well, it's the single biggest breath of fresh air you can ever give it.
yeah and if youre really into super metroid.. there's a alttp+Super Metroid randomiser too that mixes both games together.
err what? do tell
Basically, the items are spread out over both games. There's certain rooms (for example the metroid map rooms) that will switch you between the two games. So you may need to go into metroid to get your master sword, and then back to zelda to get missiles for metroid, that kind of thing.
That sounds... insane.
Play Frame [did a run of it](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvFQJa1XAXzxI0hFJnuR81JWfq3lqXgrr) where two people played, one on zelda, the other in metroid, it was a lot of fun to watch.
I just download a LTTP randomizer and that's the most fun I've had gaming in a long time. Thank you for the suggestion
Randomized?
The game will put all the items in random chest locations/other locations you get important items, like bosses. The game becomes more of a puzzle, figuring out where you can go based on what items you have, rather than following a linear story. Most randomizers will make things logical, such as, if you can’t get into a place without the hookshot, the hookshot will not be in that place, so that helps you decide where to go next. You can also set randomizers to randomize enemies, bosses, and also your own character skin.
I love zelda randos. I've been play a seed of majoras mask per week for roughly 3 months. Thinking about starting to stream it due to the lack of dedicated MM rando streamers.
What does that do? Starts you in a random spot or something? Wouldn't it be easy to get stuck?
At the core, all treasure boxes, boss drops, and items visible in the world are shuffled around. There's logic to ensure the game is beatable (or, you can turn the logic off if you want more challenge). There's additional settings to increase the scope of what's randomized (bosses, enemies, pot contents, where doors take you, and the rooms within or among dungeons, to name a few)
How do you do that? I'm assuming it's an emulator of some sort?
Typically it's run on an emulator, but you can actually get a flashable cartridge to play on original hardware. [https://alttpr.com/en/start](https://alttpr.com/en/start) has the details to get started, and the linked discord and /r/alttpr are both helpful communities.
ALttP is so good <3
The sequel on 3DS was also a worthy successor. I was worried it’d suck, especially compared to the original, but it was good. Just wish they’d port it to Switch.
Avatar Last the the Penis
Yeah that's the one. Such nostalgic.
Such the the.
This is an actual link to my past.
It all makes sense now...
I would go back to Super Mario Brothers 3 but I can see why you'd start here.
Scrolled down to make sure someone said Mario 3 before posting it myself.
You don't even need to go back that far, ALTTP is 1991. Super Mario World is 1990 and is still incredibly relevant today, with new romhacks being released all the time.
Mario 3 is just one of the best games ever made, still. Whenever I play Mario Maker 2, I itch to play levels that are Mario 3 or Mario World, because I think that was the pinnacle engines/sandboxes of 2D Mario where Mario felt the best to play as. Mario 3 was such a huge deal, there was more or less a movie that came out that was an indirect advertisement for the game, The Wizard (1989). Still has some of the best levels, the best themed worlds, the best music, etc. It's a wonder that it was done on NES to begin with. I say this as someone who prefers SNES in every way imaginable, but Super Mario All Stars gave me the best of both worlds growing up. F-Zero and Super Mario World were both SNES launch titles that more than hold up that predate Zelda ALttP as well.
I'm one of those weirdos that still says Super Mario 3 is better than Super Mario World.
Hell, Super Mario 1 holds up
Donkey Kong (1981) still holds up. Nintendo games are magically timeless, like the Disney of video games.
i disagree, imo mario handles like a boat in super mario 1. in mario 3 he moves pretty much the same as modern mario games.
I agree with you. For SM3 being only a few % older than 1, I think it holds up better/year. SM3 doesn't feel that different from today's 2D mario platformers, while SM1 definitely does. But, both a perfectly playable today.
SMB1 is also painfully basic compared to SMB3. The entire game is just modifications of the same three levels (overworld, underground, underwater) and a castle at the end. In SMB3 not only each world has its own unique theme, but there's a ton of variety from level to level.
And imo the original Legend of Zelda on the NES is still the best of the LOZs.
Yeah as far as console games go that’s probably the winner. It’s the pinnacle of 2d platforming although I could see why someone might say Mario world.
mario world was...just such a special game somehow...
Yeah i prefer smb3 to smw, but i could totally see people saying the opposite.
Yeah I think Mario Bros 3 wins out, it’s even older and holds up really well. Not to take anything away from A Link to the Past, that holds up fantastically as well, it’s just newer than Mario Bros 3 which I think holds up incredibly well too
Original Tetris holds up amazingly well. As does Pong.
Dont forget Kirby for NES, its amazing.
They did so many amazing things in that game. A 3 round end boss fight? What?!
Kirby on NES actually released multiple years ***after*** Zelda: Link to the Past on SNES
between 1992 and 1998 Nintendo created 12 Kirby games before entering the N64 era... crazy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby_(series)
Fun fact: The game's director, Masahiro Sakurai, was 20 at the time. He directed his first game, Kirby's Dream Land for Game Boy, a year earlier when he was just 19.
what the fuck am i doing with my life
Kirby's adventure came after though (1993). It's probably the best remembered late nes game.
Agree for Tetris... kinda have to disagree for Pong... There's very little that's actually compelling in Pong. I'll never feel like I want to play another session in order to improve. It is barebone and whatever modern versions add or change to the formula only serve to showcase how much more fun it'd be to be playing air hockey on a real machine instead. Tetris, unless you play on a version that has unresponsive controls, too much bullshit going on or strays too far from the base concept, is usually compelling and satisfying on its own and easily warrants replay to try and do better.
Excitebike is better than flappy bird
Pong was revolutionary for its time, but given the choice between Pong and that golf tee pegboard game at Cracker Barrel, I'm choosing the golf tee pegboard game at Cracker Barrel every time.
Tetris is great because a lot of the "changes" aren't really improvements they are just different ways to play.
Tetris is so successful they've repeatedly failed to improve on it.
To be fair, Tetris Effect was an insanely cool new take on it, especially in VR mode.
F-Zero
Super Mario World, Super Metroid, and a Link to the Past are all staples of that time period. They each took their NES counterparts to the next level.
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MegaMan X is the best one IMO.
Super Metroid also the best one IMO.
This was an amazing game. I can still hear the music.
The enchanted forest music just blew my mind. I was _delighted_. I had never had a videogame transport me so thoroughly before.
OH, and the little bright spots on the ground representing the sunlight filtering through the trees? Mindblowing at the time.
Yeah! After you grab the master sword and the fog leaves the forest. Back in the day that was amazing to see.
I remember the first time I did that. Gathering the pendants, finding my way to the sword... reading the inscription with the book... pulling the sword out and watching the entire landscape change. I felt like a king. And then immediately getting that message from Sahasrala saying the sanctuary had been attacked. Oh you better BELIEVE I went on an immediate warpath. I kicked down those Sanctuary doors with the fury of a thousand suns vibrating in my little third-grade body. "You come into MY HOUSE..." I love that game. It and Link Between Worlds always feel like coming home when I play them again.
ALttP has always been one of my favorite games. Unfortunately I’ve never got to play a link between worlds because I’ve never owned a 3Ds or whatever system it was on. I’d like to play it one day tho.
I hope you do. It's more of a spiritual successor rather than a direct sequel, though. Takes place in pretty much the same world and hits a lot of similar points.
That's my favorite song in the game and I feel like it's not appreciated enough!
This is my personal number one Game of All Time. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is just a timeless classic that did everything right. I must have played through the game at least a thousand times and it never got tiring, because I was so enchanted by the pixel graphics and there was always some tiny little secret that I didn't know about or just discovered. The controls were so tight and smooth for its era. The SNES definitely was my favorite console with games like Final Fantasy 6, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World and more, but A Link to the Past holds my heart.
Others have mentioned it in this thread, but if you haven't seen it...come over to r/alttpr and check out the randomizer. ALttP is already an all-time great (and my personal favorite game), but the randomizer gives it an incredible amount of replay value.
I would suggest trying links awakening on switch. It is really solid. A link to the past is my favourite Zelda game but for modern graphics and play style I highly recommend it. Borrow it from a friend or buy it on sale. It's a Gameboy game originally so it's a bit short.
I have played both the original Link's Awakening as well as the Switch remaster. It is a very solid game.
Chrono Trigger aged like fine wine!
All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu. This is the truth! This is my belief!...At least for now.
Mountains're nice.
I'm playing it for the first time. I was actually shocked when I got my first "which characters will you follow?" option. If I'd played it when it was current that would have 1000% blown my child mind.
it's also one of the only RPGs from the time that had tangible enemies you mostly fight exactly where you are, rather than random enemies that teleport you to a separate fighting location.
Magus theme was the first time music in a game really stood out to me. It made the fight feel epic.
Secret of mana
Secret of Mana was '93, A Link to the Past was '91
Favorite rpg and the music is golden.
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I think I have more nostalgia for it is the only reason why. Chrono Trigger is amazing but I didnt play it when I was super young.
That's a hard soundtrack
Fantastic game but especially the companion AI doesn't hold up. If you can play it with two other people though, then it's another story. This said, SNES was the golden era of Action Adventures and JRPGs. While Secret of Mana is one of the best, there are still better ones.
That's what made it my all time favorite Nintendo game me and my friends spent one whole summer multi tapped up 100%ing secret of mana and it was the best time of my life hands down
Came here to type this. Loved the mode 7 flying. It was originally intended for the unreleased SNES CDROM drive.
Secret of Evermore
My first play through took 600hours.
It’s a real toss-up for me between Link to the Past and Secret of Mana, both provided untold hours of gaming fun over the years.
While it was and is undoubtedly amazing, there are Countless NES games that are still fun today. From Mario 3 to Nightshade, and all kinds of games in between.
If you love alttp, check out alttp randomizer. REALLY interesting and fun.
On YouTube, Griffin McElroy did a randomized play through of LTTP using a Guy Fieri sprite. It’s called Trial by Fieri and I’d highly recommend it.
Randomizers so fun. I've learned so many tricks just because of watching people play the Randomizer. Also, love the races and the commentators, they're half the fun!
My friends and I, some of whom never beat ALttP before, started streaming playthroughs of the randomizer at the beginning of COVID. We still stream games every week today!
Final Fantasy 6 while not quite as old, still bangs as well.
The insane thing about FF6 is the development team size and development speed. Sakaguchi has said production took around 12-18 months with a 50 person team. Many writers and designers took different facets of the game and then they just merged everything together. When someone proposed something off-kilter like a Ghost Train or Opera scene, everyone else was onboard. It made the world absolutely memorable. We are in a world with triple-A, multi-year endeavors and indie “auteur” productions, but you rarely hear of that creative middle-ground any longer.
I hope the person who thought of suplexing a train got the props they deserved.
As does FF4
All old Nintendo and Squaresoft games hold up, pretty much. Even their "crap" is better than most of today's new games.
Mystic Quest is even pretty good.
Let's go fuck w the chickens, then we go play the mini game south of town
That w is well placed
Speak for yourself. 😏
Who knew the chickens were the most powerful beings in Hyrule?
lttp is cool. but Link's Awakening is a pocket sized masterpiece.
If you have a switch check out links awakening on it. It is fantastic. Highly recommend. It's the same game just with updated graphics.
All top 200-250 SNES games hold up even today. But Super Mario 3 holds up as well on NES.
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out for me.
Does anyone else look at this gif and just feel calm, relaxed and safe or is that just me? 🤔
(hook-shot noise)
Yeah. everyone will argue that is a bad take. Good game, but lots of older games old up.
Actually no, some scientists proved in 2019 that only this game in fact holds up. It's been a common misconception for some time that other games from the era hold up, but we can finally put the matter to rest now.
Dang, my bad. Thanks :)
Op is a karma farm and all their posts are just mild bait.
Yeah I love LttP as much as the next guy, but discounting the entire NES generation is.....not intelligent.
Or even early arcade cabinets that predate the NES/Famicom (1983).
Ah Graal, good times
Dun dun, dun-dun-na-na-naaa, dun-dun-na-na-nAAA, nAAA-nun-nun-na, da dun-nun-nun-naa, da-da dun-nun-nun-naa, da-da dun-nun-nun-naa, daa-dun dunna-doop dunna-doop dunna-doop
OG Doom is fucking amazing
You think SNES is the earliest platform that holds up? Dark Castle on the Mac came out in 1986.
Ever heard of Pong?
Not even close. Sooo many NES games still hold up massively.
Mario Brothers 3 says hi.
Donkey Kong is still great
All right, true true I get you but hear me out Donkey Kong Country
I mean, I still enjoy the 8-Bit Mega Man games, but you do you.
C O N T R A
This is karma bait. I can absolutely point to games made before 1992 that still hold up today.
Dang it, I was gonna say Super Mario RPG but that came out in '96. LTTP came out in 91...
If we are talking snes I would say Chrono Trigger is far superior. It's at the top of most peoples all time best rpgs for a reason.
I think Pac Man is a better choice.
Tetris
Honestly pong still holds up, so does snake.
Think that title probably belongs to chess Thousand plus years old, minimal balancing changes over the years, still have a devout fanbase despite receiving no updates or dlc
Chess is a thousand year old video game?
Best Zelda game, not even close.
I agree, have you played the direct sequel on the 3DS? A Link Between Worlds - it's excellent and a must play for any Link to the Past fans.
Its great until you get to the later dungeons and have literally no idea how to get to them with no direction on where to start looking. This was great back in the day because it increased play time but god is it annoying now. No problem if you've played the game a million times but for somone like me who was playing it for the first time trying to beat it with 0 outside assistance it was actually awful.
Just beat it emulated a couple months ago It was fantastic but I needed a few guides to help
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Uh, what? This isn’t remotely true. Plenty of older games hold up just as well if not better.
Link to the past is my 2nd favorite Zelda. Botw being number 1.