The best SNES game is comparable to Nintendo’s Tetris game. Dr. Mario is trying to fight the deadly viruses from taking over the lab, but he needs the assistance of the player by matching the vitamin pills with the correct viruses to eliminate them of existence. In order to do this, the player needs to be actively working his or her brain to make the correct decisions on where to place the pills. Each pill is split into two halves with a different color combination: red, blue, and yellow. The viruses are also different colors.

The player needs to match the same colored pills with the same colored viruses. In order to eliminate the virus, the player needs to correctly match four squares of the same color. This could be done a few different ways. If there is pill with two halves of the same color, it can be stacked on top of a virus of the same color along with another half of a pill with the correct color. This would equal four squares and eliminate the virus. The player needs to be careful because he or she may make a mistake and start stacking the pills without the corresponding colors. After too many pills have been let go by Dr. Mario, the game will end. The pills can be moved around the screen horizontally or vertically. This enables the player to slide pills around themselves. Once the player eliminates all of the viruses in the lab, he or she will continue on to another level. The speed of the pills and the number of viruses increases with the number of levels achieved.

Dr. Mario is most definitely classified as one of the best SNES games because not only is it fun for the family, but it is also a good way to challenge the minds of individuals. This game can be played if the player only has a few minutes or a few hours. Dr. Mario was created for organizers that like to play a fun, mind-activity game for everyone. Playing this game can become a good addiction for many of the thinking gamers out there.

The game’s story follows Samus Aran as she attempts to retrieve a stolen Metroid from the Space Pirates. The game begins as she follows the leader of the Space Pirates, Ridley, to the planet Zebes, where she searches for the stolen larva in a network of caves. Samus brings a Metroid larva to Ceres Space Colony, where scientists learned that they could harness its power. After Samus left the colony, she received a distress call and returned to find the scientists dead and the larva stolen.

Samus eventually tracks down and defeats four of the Space Pirate bosses. At the Space Pirate base, she encounters the Metroid larva. The larva attacks Samus and nearly drains all of her energy before it realizes who she is and leaves. Samus then confronts Mother Brain, the biomechanical creature that controls the base’s systems. Mother Brain nearly kills Samus, but is then attacked by the Metroid larva. The Mother Brain destroys the Metroid, but in turn is destroyed by Samus with an extremely powerful weapon created from the energy given to her by the Metroid. Samus then narrowly escapes a planet wide self-destruct.

When the game was released, it was given near-universal acclaim. Although it was released along with the launch of the PlayStation and Sega Saturn video consoles, the game and series eventually reached commercial success years later. It was noted at the time of release by different game review sites that the game was released “at the wrong place, at the wrong time.” The game was praised for its graphics, dramatic plot, and crisp and clear control system.

The Metroid series did not reach the level of commercial success that the Mario or Zelda series reached, especially in the series beginning. However, the Metroid series did begin to gain momentum with the release of Metroid Prime and Metroid Fusion on the Nintendo GameCube and Game Boy Advance many years later. Overall, Super Metroid received many awards and honors. The game is considered a must own for SNES fans, and is considered one of the best SNES games ever.

10 – Super Mario Bros – The original NES game. Who hasn’t played this game at least once? Odds are even if you never owned an NES you still probably played the game in the arcade or on a computer later on. It spawned one of the most successful game franchises of all time, the Mario Bros.

9 – Battletoads – Had arguably one of the best soundtracks of any game on the NES. It also had arguably one of the hardest levels of any game to complete, EVER. It is considered to be one of the most difficult games on any platform to beat.

8 – Castlevania III – Dracula’s Curse – The Castlevania series was incredible and the third game, Dracula’s Curse, was probably the best NES Castlevania game ever. The characters you get in the game are a blast to play with and changed up the dynamics of play.

7 – Contra – Introduced one of the most popular game phrases of all time, “Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, start!” The ultimate game code! This was a great one of two player game and possibly was the best co-op player game for the NES.

6 – Bubble Bobble – One of the most fun two-player games of all time on the NES (could also be played one player), Bubble Bobble seemed to have an infinite amount of fun levels to go through. It is a total NES classic to anyone that ever played it.

5 – Mega Man 2 – Considered by some to be the best in the Mega Man series, Mega Man 2 featured a major change in the game’s look from the first version. It also introduced power-up changes and the energy tank. Due to its password system, you didn’t have to beat the game in one sitting like previous games.

4 – Mega Man 3 – Awesome music and graphics for the time that it came out. Mega Man 3 continues to bring it up a notch from the previous two games in the series. It remains one of the ultimate side-scrolling action games of all time.

3 – The Legend of Zelda – The starter game to one of the greatest RPG series of all time. It is a great game that spawned many other successful games in a line of Zelda-based products. It has one of the most recognizable video game characters, Link, in the entire world.

2 – Final Fantasy – The first game (American version at least) in what is probably the most successful RPG series of all time. This game set the standard for all in its genre that followed it. There have been dozens of Final Fantasy games on multiple game platforms.

1 – Super Mario Bros 3 – This could be the ultimate old-school platform game of all time. It is one hell of a game and up the ante on the Mario series in a big way. It’s hard to get tired of playing this game. It is one of those games you can just play over and over and over…

This isn’t a scientific list by any means, but it is a pretty solid list of the ten best NES games of all time. It is just for fun but is, in itself, a pretty solid list.

This list was inspired by another list at SydLexia.com.