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Super Nintendo Entertainment System games

  • Street Fighter Alpha 2Street Fighter Alpha 2 was Japan's top arcade game of 1996. It arrived less than a year after the first Alpha.
  • Street Fighter II TurboStreet Fighter II Turbo reached arcades in 1992 as an upgrade kit.
  • Final Fantasy Mystic QuestIn Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, players see enemies coming and choose whether to fight.
  • Final Fantasy VJapan asked Square not to release Final Fantasy V on a school day.
  • Mortal Kombat (1992 video game)Mortal Kombat, the 1992 arcade fighting game from Midway, spent six months of its development without a name. Co-creator Ed Boon later said that nobody could come up with a name "nobody didn't hate." The rejected candidates included…
  • Super Star WarsIn Super Star Wars, Luke fights up a Jawa sandcrawler to reach the droids. He does not simply buy them.
  • Tokimeki Memorial (video game)Konami, known for the punishing shooter Gradius, made a high school dating game.
  • Doom (1993 video game)Doom crashed a university network the night it was released in 1993. Ten thousand people tried to download it at once.
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the PastThe Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past reached Japanese players in 1991 as the third entry in Nintendo's Zelda series. It was built for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and it followed Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, which…
  • Super Street Fighter IISuper Street Fighter II let eight players compete in one tournament across four linked arcade cabinets.
  • The Lost VikingsThe Lost Vikings began with hundreds of tiny Vikings, until TV screens could not show them.
  • EarthBoundEarthBound is a 1994 role-playing game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, and its American advertising declared, 'This game stinks.' Nintendo meant it as a joke. In Japan the game was called Mother 2, and it was led by Shigesato…
  • Super Mario WorldOn the 21st of November 1990, Super Mario World reached Japanese players under the longer title Super Mario World: Super Mario Bros. 4. It was one of only two launch games for Nintendo's new Super Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan.…
  • Street Fighter IIStreet Fighter II's combos began as a bug that the team chose to keep. It appeared in the car-smashing bonus stage.
  • Final Fantasy IVFinal Fantasy IV began with a Formula One race. Hiroyuki Ito saw cars pass at different speeds and got an idea.
  • Final Fantasy VIFinal Fantasy VI lets its hero fail to save the world. The story's second half is called the World of Ruin.
  • Final Fight (video game)Final Fight, Capcom's arcade brawler, began as Street Fighter '89. Operators said the name was misleading.
  • Chrono TriggerChrono Trigger is a 1995 role-playing game that Square developed and published for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It began with a research trip. In October 1992, three veteran creators traveled to the United States to study…
  • Donkey Kong CountryDonkey Kong Country made its public debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, which ran from the 23rd to the 25th of June 1994. Nintendo of America chairman Howard Lincoln saved it for the finale of the company's presentation. He…
  • Space InvadersSpace Invaders sped up as aliens vanished by accident, and its designer kept the quirk.

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