Super Nintendo

A Link to the Past Laid Out the Framework for Other Entries to Follow I’ll never forget the moment I first booted up A Link to the Past and saw the 3D…

Donkey Kong Country: 25 Years Later Back in 1994, Nintendo was struggling with their 16-bit Super Nintendo Entertainment System, which wasn’t selling as well as they’d hoped it would. With…

What is the best Nintendo Console? It was in 1985 that Nintendo launched the Nintendo Entertainment System on North American shores and forever changed the video gaming industry; decades later,…

It’s hard to believe that one of Nintendo’s most-beloved games turns 25 today. Super Metroid, the follow-up to the 1991 GameBoy title Metroid II: Return of Samus, was released April…

Better known as ????? (Seiken Densetsu 2) in its native country of Japan, Secret of Mana is a 1993 Super Nintendo release fondly remembered by many across the globe as…

It says quite a lot about the quality of the game that A Link to the Past’s contributions to The Legend of Zelda franchise are still, more or less, relevant…

There are few experiences that I’ve had similar to those with my Super Nintendo. Earthbound might have been one of my earliest emotional kicks as a kid, but there were plenty of other games too.

Donkey Kong Country is a game held in high regard and with good reason. It pushed the boundaries of what the Super Nintendo was capable of and the follow-up Donkey…

This week on the NXpress Nintendo Podcast we review Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble, Mr. Shifty, and Kamiko.

Part Two

This week, we continue our Donkey Kong retrospective with the sequel to Rare’s spectacular hit Donkey Kong Country and let you know if we think Diddy’s Kong Quest exceeds the…

In 1994, Rare recast a classic Nintendo villain as the titular hero Donkey Kong Country and gave him a unique set of skills and his very own sidekick, Diddy Kong. Created…

Although Castlevania would be taken to a new level by Symphony of the Night, when you’re talking about the traditional installments —it really doesn’t get any better than Super Castlevania…

People tend to forget this largely because now it’s considered the greatest game console of all time, but there was a time where the Super Nintendo was nowhere near as…

  In 1993, Nintendo, in cooperation with Argonaut Games, released Star Fox on the Super Nintendo. It was the first polygon-based game for the console. It received positive reviews all…

Is there anything that Mario can’t do? Nintendo has placed the iconic plumber in as many professions as the Japanese publisher has deemed marketable to a mass consumer base. He’s…

When we ask our team what their favorite SNES games are, Chrono Trigger is usually mentioned on the top five. If you ask me, Chrono Trigger is the best game on…