CNET agrees with Infendo - SNES best console
Saturday, January 26th, 2008 at 9:43am by David
Don Reisinger of CNET blogged about the best console ever and he picked the SNES. This concurs with Infendo’s recent poll on a similar subject, where our faithful readers chose it above all other Nintendo consoles. Big difference with his post, though, is that he claims it to be superior over all consoles.
You picked SNES above other Nintendo systems, but do you think it deserves to be called the best above all others?
January 26th, 2008 at 10:14 am
I don’t know if it was because my young mind was like a super imperssionable sponge at the time or what, but I’m leaning towards agreeing that the SNES was the best of all time. It was the pinacle of platforming and I’ll never forget the day I opened that big lack and gray box for Christmas way back in the 1990s. I couldn’t fire up Super Mario World fast enough.
January 26th, 2008 at 10:34 am
In my mind, there is something about that controller, and a certain cartoon beauty about 16-bit games. It is however for these reasons that in my mind the SNES has nearly met it’s match in the Nintendo DS.
Pre-DS, I would have told you that my favorite gaming system to date was the SNES without any sort of hesitation. Owing in no small part to the epic library the system was able to build. On a list of my top games of all time, undoubtedly, you run into Super Metroid, A Link to the Past, Zombies ate my Neighbors, Ken Griffy baseball, and Final Fantasy III (or VI depending on how Japanese you were at the time). Even for a while post-DS I still would claim the SNES as king.
But let’s run a tit-for-tat of the two. For almost everything the SNES has to offer, the DS has something entirely comparable, if not better already. There are some pieces missing on the DS, I agree. But for a three year old system, handheld nonetheless, to be running pace with the SNES, the DS has run quite a race.
Where we find gaps in the DS (lack of Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Super Metroid) there are developers working on exciting offerings to fill that void. Square-Enix has been flooding the DS with 3D remakes of many of the legacy FF games, not to mention a slew of newcomers/spin offs. Techmo is even offering a Cannon-piece of the Ninja Gaiden story to the DS.
I say give the DS some room to grow, and it very well could make the SNES seem like old-hat, but just yet the DS hasn’t passed the SNES for me, owing to the singular fact that the SNES has Super Metroid, and the DS lacks Metroid Dread. SNES is still the king, but not for long I feel.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:40 am
N64, PS2, SNES. No Wii yet.
January 26th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Where else could you play the blockbusters from Konami, Capcom, Namco, Square and Enix as well as Nintendo all on one platform?
dlindema - that’s exactly what I was thinking about the DS (although it’s not really a console).
–M.I.S.
January 26th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
i never even owned one, but voted for it as the best ninny console ever without hesitatation. The games it introduced us to, and the series it took to the next level, were amazing.
Playing through a link to the past was nothing short of joyus. And rounds of contra III after class were always something to look forward to.
January 26th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
oh- as far as best game console…. yeah why not. it truly was gaming’s golden age, as another poster once said.
January 26th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Two words:
Chrono Trigger
January 27th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Genesis > SNES
January 27th, 2008 at 5:11 am
Plainly, YES!
The reason being is that in terms of remembering and going back in your mind and playing old games in the present are two different things. Think back to how awesome Final Fantasy VII was. Best game EVAR!!! kind of stuff. Now go and play it. Not as cool as it once seemed. It still sounds great and holds memories, but it feels dated. That’s the problem with PS1, PS2, XBOX, even N64 games, they can’t truly stand the test of time.
But for some reason, sprite based games do. They will always be fun to play no matter what kind of technology we have now, because it’s tried and true. It never feels dated, just fun.
And the SNES was the pinnacle of great looking sprites, great gameplay, large enough to hold detailed inventories, have long stories, good music with a variety, lots of missions. Look at how long and detailed Final Fantasy VI was. Still bigger and more involved than most games today.
That is why the SNES is truly the best system ever made still. It just had enough of what we needed without over-doing it.
January 28th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
yes, but like jack stated before we were impressionable sponges, so we’re a little bias. in any case it wasn’t just opening the box that was a wonderful experience, but all the titles that came afterward. knowing i would never have to drop another quarter at an arcade again the summer of 92 when Street Fighter II was released on the SNES was bliss. then seeing the mediocre version that sega released made me laugh. the colors sucked, the sound sucked, the controller sucked (unless you bought a special 6 button version), and the back grounds sucked. it was just a superior and more fun machine bottom line.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
The SNES best console?!? Has everyone been taking Crazy Pills?!?
Maybe it is because my first console was the N64, but I don’t see it…
I voted for Wii, but it only raised above the GameCube in my mind because of its backward compatibility with it! Honestly, guys, even the SNES games look better on the Wii!
Oh, and the best console ever has to be the Dreamcast, no doubt about it!