Ten Must Own Games for Super Nintendo

Hundreds of games were released for Super Nintendo during the consoles lifetime. There are so many, that it can be hard to choose which you want to buy for your collection. Below is a list of the top ten must own games for the SNES and why they should be in your collection.

10. Donkey Kong Country - Play as Donkey Kong as he tries to get back all his stolen bananas, serves him right for stealing Peach from Mario in the original Donkey Kong arcade game. The first game ever made with pre-rendered 3D graphics so for an SNES game it looks really good. A fun game with lots of replay value because there are different things to collect in each level.

9. Super Mario Kart - The first kart racing game ever. You get to race around a track and shoot objects at your opponents to slow them down. Good as a single player game, but great with multi-player. Racing against a friend or battling is one of the first great multi-player experiences on a console.

8. Tetris and Dr. Mario - Two great puzzle games on one cartridge. The classic Tetris with improved graphics (color) and virus busting Dr. Mario puzzler too. For puzzle fans these are two of the best and are good for hundreds of hours of fun.

7. Starfox - This paved the way for the 3D games we all play today. It was the first major game to use 3D models for all graphics. You play as Fox McCloud and fly a space ship as you try to shoot down enemies, fly through hoops, and defeat gigantic bosses. Fox McCloud is now a playable character is the Super Smash Bros series so you an see his start in this game.

6. Super Punch-Out - The follow up to Mike Tyson's Punch-Out of NES. This game has better graphics, new characters, and even appearances by your old favorites. The game is just fun to play. Funny characters, a slow increase in difficulty, weaknesses you have to learn. You will enjoy this boxing game, especially if you played the original.

5. NBA Jam - "He's On Fire". Anyone who has played this game will remember this line from the announcers. Any time one player makes three baskets they literally light up on fire and can make shots from anywhere. One of the original arcade style sports games where you can push and hit other players and it doesn't follow the typical rules of basketball. See if you can find "Big Head" mode and other hidden easter eggs that change your players appearance.

4. Zelda Link to the Past - The sequel to Zelda on NES, Link to the Past is an adventure game through Hyrule with great puzzles, new weapons, and incredible game play. Link has to navigate between light and dark worlds as he makes his way to save Princess Zelda. Many people think LTTP is their favorite Zelda game, which considering the other great Zelda games is saying quite a lot.

3. Super Mario RPG - A rare game that can be hard to find, but worth it. Its a very funny RPG taking place in the Mushroom Kingdom with all the Mario characters including Bowser, Peach, Toad, and more. Mario RPG makes fun of past Mario games and leads to the Mario and Luigi RPG and Paper Mario games. It was developed by Square, who are well known for their RPG Final Fantasy RPG games.

2. Super Metroid - The sequel to the original Metroid for Nintendo. Super Metroid has more weapons, new areas to explore and a more difficult bosses. Consistently rated in the many top 100 lists, it was rated the best game of all time by Electronic Gaming Monthly. Its fantastic level design is often seen as a pinnacle in game development.

1. Super Mario World - The launch game for Super Nintendo and the most popular game on the system in terms of sales. Super Mario World takes the Mario game ideas from Super Mario 3 and adds better graphics, better sound, and even more levels. Yoshi makes his first appearance this game too. Super Mario World has a 97% rating at gamerankings.com, one of the highest of any game ever made.

If any of these games aren't in your gaming collection you should try to buy them. All ten games of these games are great gaming experiences that every gamer will enjoy.

Copyright (c) 2007 JJ Hendricks

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Leveling Up With a Warhammer Game Guide

It was not long ago that they announced the release of Warhammer Online, and instantly you could feel the excitement in the gaming community. Knowing that a game was about to be released that would rival World of Warcraft (finally) was something that "lit up the phone lines," so to speak, as gamers everywhere contacted one another about the upcoming release.

But it is not just the game itself that has people excited, but the potential to beat a game that took years to create. The thrill of beating a game that developers worked on for months and months gets any true gamer excited.

That is why a Warhammer game guide is expected to be a big hit with the upcoming release of the game.

Warhammer Game Guides?

What make a Warhammer game guide so important for a lot of gamers is that there is a certain level of excitement that comes with beating the game first. A status, if you will, that comes from being one of the first people to complete the game and be able to explore the worlds as much as they want.

Admittedly it is not for everyone. Many people like nothing but exploring, and don't even care how much they progress in the game. Arguably a Warhammer game guide is useful for them too, as they can get as lost as they want and still be able to get back.

But even if they swear they do not need it, there are other gamers that are there to win and they are there to win quickly. A Warhammer game guide, for them, is a chance for them to show up their friends and accomplish what many of the people they know will take much longer to accomplish.

If You Use A Guide, Does That Mean You Cannot Explore?

And as a response to those that claim they do not want to use a game guide because they want to explore the land - remember, most MMORPGs let you explore the land as much as you want once you have leveled up to the highest level, and although Warhammer Online has managed to keep whether they allow that or not a secret, you can imagine that even if it is not a capability now, there is no way that the gamer that is going to pay for monthly game play is going to allow that to not be a feature later. So exploring will not be a problem after you level up.

Stephen Fredricks brings years of experience to every project he takes on and his newest, a WaR Strategy Guide being released later this month at TheWarhammerGuide.com is the most detailed to date.

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Race Driver - Grid Games Review

While GT5 (Gran Turismo 5) gives gears a virtually realistic peek into car driving, Race Driver: Grid provides us with a more fun and metal-grinding insight into all-out-racing with the thrills, spills and frills that go with it. Putting players in the seat of well known race cars but well known factory cars to be raced on highly detailed circuits around the world, one can easily feel the rush involved.

The control are very simple, you have gas and brake done with the triggers, camera view change done with one of the bumpers, steering with the left thumb stick and panning around your car with the right thumb stick.

Since the cars involved are factory series, there is no need for the tuning options and getting car is simply done by entering an event and buying a car specified for that race.

And while buying the car, you have a choice of getting new car or a cheaper used one from eBay motors, although there is not much difference in the condition. You can also sell your car on eBay once you have no use for it.

In Race Driver: Grid, you do have to take care not to crash it but when you do the visual damage model is very convincing. Smack into another car and you will be treated to bits and pieces of glass, metal and rubber flying every which way.

Do enough damage to your car and you will see your speed, power and handling decrease significantly. Even crashing into a barricade can have a lasting effect on the race as any debris will remain on the track for remaining laps.

Codemaster's programmers must have had to restart races a lot in their time as in Grid they have incorporate a flashback game play option where if you crash, you can simply rewind to a specific point and continue from there. It useful especially after having crashed halfway through the 24minute-long Le Mans 24 hour race. Certainly beats having to start from scratch.

In Race Driver: Grid, player has to earn enough 'respect' from their races to be granted licenses in three main territories - Japan, Europe and America. Each territory has it own set of challenges and the goal is to win races and challenges across the board to move both your driver and his associated team up the ranking.

Teammates can also be hired later on, adding to both the amount of money the team can earn and the player's sense of ownership - everything, from the team's name to the colors and sponsors emblazoned on the cars, can be modified here.

Those familiar with Pro Race Driver series should pick this title up while those who are not, the game's rather split personality between an arcade racer and a sim should be appealing enough.

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Ninja Quest

Ahh, Ninja Quest; the ambitious title about a ninja....on a quest,yeah. In Ninja Quest you first select your ninja out of a total of 6, whom doesn't seem to be any different from the others, aside from clothes, name, age, and so on. The game opens with a somewhat cool, somewhat corny intro that makes no sense apart from saving some no name princess from "the bad clan". You, being the nice and brave gentleman that you are have to go and do just that. With a nice selection of swords and projectiles on your side, you can't lose. Your introduced with a new sword at almost every level and as you slay your foes, there nice enough to give you there shurikens. These projectiles make the game easy, since they nearly take up a third of your opponents' health, making them a must have in your little ninja's arsenal. While the game tries to keep things a little lively by giving you more devastating weapons, the gameplay dies after the first 5 to 10 minutes or so.

Enemies are nothing but the left over characters from the rest of the 5 initial selections at the beginning of the game. The only difficult times are when your being ambushed by 5 or 6 of the same guys and you lack room to defend yourself, or when your trying to make a jump but fall a little short. Which brings up another issue, the respawn points after a death needed a little tweaking, as it will do nothing but drop you in the same exact place you died from, this makes getting jumps another shot a little annoying. You may find you get to the end of a level and you can't progress. Maybe because you have to defeat all of the enemies before you can move on, makes sense huh? To bad the game fails to tell you this small but useful information. But, all in all, aside from NQ's boring ending (save princess, tittle screen) Ninja Quest is a decent game if your to bored to care if what your doing is fun.
Overall

Action slasher with a paper thin plot, boring but fun in spurts gameplay with a horrible ending. Nothing spectacular but don't take my word for it, click the link and try it yourself. PEACE

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