CORBIE'S GAME BLOG

This was an easy choice for me. I've owned over 40 video game systems in my 28 years of gaming ranging from Odyssey Pong all the way up to Playstation 3, but the Super Nintendo system still remains my favorite game system of all time. Maybe it was the games, maybe it was the time in my life, either way, no other game system can touch the Super NES, even 15 years later.

You take a look at the games that were available for the system and it's clear what made it special. Starting off with the outstanding Super Mario World, and continuing on with games like Super Ghouls & Ghosts, Super Castlevania IV, and even Super Mario Kart. Shooters, the genre that many said the Super NES would fail at due to its slow processor speed, like Axelay, Super R-Type, R-Type III, and Space Megaforce all played great on the system and turned out to be some of the best the genre has seen. But if there was one genre that totally defined the Super NES, it was the role-playing games. Here are a few of the highlights: Seret of Mana, Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Mario RPG, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals, Soul Blazer, and even the US-developed Secret of Evermore. The list just goes on and on. Maybe a system will someday be able to capture the magic that the Super Nintendo system has held onto for so long, but it would be a high task indeed.

The one hope I have is that Nintendo will see what great games the system had and bring them back to life on the Wii's Virtual Console. Because these games deserve another run and what better system to do it on that the current Nintendo system. With the success the re-releases on such systems as the Gameboy Advance and the DS, it's clear that the fans still want the games from the greatest system ever made. And if you've played any of them, it's no wonder why. Click on the Super-NES picture to visit SUPER-NES.COM and check out some reviews of many of these classic titles.