One year later, where do you rank the Switch in the history of Nintendo’s home consoles?

So imagine everything I just said about the NES, but then add enough evolution to game design and modern-day accessibility, and you have the Super Nintendo. Even the naysayers of retro gaming have a hard time knocking the appeal of this perfect gaming console. Excellent third-party support, fair difficulty curves, pretty graphics with bursting color… what is there to hate about the Super Nintendo?

Nothing, unless you were a SEGA Genesis kid… jerk…

Nintendo’s three main franchises didn’t just fire on all fronts with the Super Nintendo. Together, they form three of the finest video games ever made. Any company, Nintendo included, would be hard-pressed to top the perfect trifecta of Super Mario World, Super Metroid, and Link to the Past ever again! That’s not all Nintendo had up its sleeve though. Star Fox, Kirby, Donkey Kong, the appeal of expressive 16-bit graphics worked wonders and allowed these franchises to reinvent themselves.

And Nintendo wasn’t alone. Capcom overhauled its entire line-up, most notably Mega Man, and Konami breathed new life into Castlevania. Odds-and-ends developers spurted out cult classics like ActRaiser, Umihara Kawase, Harvest Moon, Lufia, and countless others.

And then there is Square. Between Secret of Mana, Romancing SaGa, Super Mario RPG, the three best Final Fantasy games, and the be-all, end-all video game itself, Chrono Trigger, the lasting appeal of the Super Nintendo could be laid solely at the feet of the JRPG master.

But more importantly, the Super Nintendo was the first console where I actively pursued video games. On the NES, it was just something I did. On the Super Nintendo, I became a savvy little stud and everyone asked me for the best recommendations at my school… secretly though since video games were still a nerd hobby back then. The mid-to-late 90s were my most impressionable years, back when I was still innocent and free from the hormones of puberty and stresses of high school, and those were some of the happiest years of my life.

The Super Nintendo is the best way to take me back if I ever need to go, and nowadays, I need that escape more than ever. After all, there is a reason that Chrono Trigger is still my number 1 desired title on the Nintendo Switch.

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2018/02/11/best-nintendo-console/