SNES Games Released AFTER N64 Launched in 1996

When Nintendo 64 was released in 1996 Nintendo still supported the Super Nintendo for a couple of years. Here are some games on SNES you may have missed as you may have been too busy with N64.

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[KeavyGoesLive]

I stuck with the SNES until 1999 and the main reason was because I worked at Target and they had a killer SNES collection for sale and they had a ton of $20 SNES games, so that kept me with the little gray and purple box.

Ocarina of Time and Parasite Eve pushed me over to N64 and PlayStation but I still consider SNES to be the best console ever

[supaoofta]

Weird that some of the best games on a console are after devs mastered it.😜 Late era games are marvels!

[CrashFan]

10:22 fun fact, the entire rom for this was featured in the gameboy version too. if you played it on a super gameboy it'd give you the option to play the native snes version (which is some insane value)

[nicksokolowski]

Fun Fact: Star Fox 2 was supposed to be one of those last SNES games but was canned at the last minute to focus all 3D games on the N64.

[MrGhostjamas]

Great vid; one aspect is that in Europe, the n64 didn't launch until March 1997 so if you were a Nintendo fan at the time holding out for an N64, there was a strange - and very long period - where we'd be reading about all these next-gen titles in magazines but the shelves were still mostly filled with 16bit games - so a lot of those late titles make a lot of sense in the context of the european market. Importing consoles was pretty rare given the power and TV differences then.

US gamers were very lucky at that time in terms of how early they got titles and the performance of NTSC over PAL games and I remember how jealous I was of them getting to play Mario 64 and so on months before us. I would spend hours reading about Mario 64 in magazines and trying to imagine what it was like to play just looking at the small, often blurry static images.

[Aenima]

Wow, you’re right. A Disney Robin Hood game would have been amazing

[foamcorner]

Great video, John! Always a good morning when one of your videos gets uploaded.

[Pixelmusement]

I covered the DOS version of Prince of Persia 2 on my own show a few months ago. The start of the game is combat heavy but the traditional exploration gameplay comes back into focus after that opening area... though the SNES version also plays RIDICULOUSLY fast for whatever reason. o_o;

[mevb]

The Donkey Kong Country trilogy wasn't claymation but CGI and they did so before even Toy Story came out, the first ever CGI animated feature film. DKC was out in 94, almost a whole year before TS, though in Sweden TS wasn't out until feburary 96 so it was shipping nine-ten months before DKC3 (which was released before the N64 here, EU didn't get it until march 97).

[branscombe_]

this is the unique content that keeps me coming back Mr Riggs 👾🎮💜

[Solidier]

Man the mid 90s was great year for gaming. I still remembered when they had the SNES, NES, and Sega games at walmart next to the cd and cassettes aisle. Now CDs are rarely there anymore. Maybe one small section. Boy how the times as changed.

[JohnSmith-zwvp]

If only Rockman & Forte, Tales of Phantasia, and Star Ocean could've somehow been brought over. Then again it might seem a little odd for a game like Tales of Phantasia with such an adorable looking cast to have an M rating!

[Onering]

The 90s was kind of an odd decade in gaming. IT was a golden decade for gaming, some of the best games ever made were released in the 90's. I find it interesting how the decade is split down the middle with two of the greatest generations of home consoles ever. Pre-95, the industry was dominated by Nintendo and Sega, the 16-bit wars were in full swing, and we were gives some of the greatest games ever for that generation. Post-95, the industry was dominated by the next-gen consoles, ps1 & N64 (I know Sega had the Saturn, but 95 also signaled the beginning of the end for Sega). Some of the GOATS were released in this Gen. Mario and Zelda basically redefined how 3d games were approached and played. With ps1 and N64 duking it out till the end of the 90s, gamers were given the absolute creme of the crop.

[northofnashira]

The Frogger episode of Seinfeld aired late April of 1998. Maybe that had something to do with the re-releases. They would have had to get permission to use the name, so Konami would have known with plenty of warning.

[klaytonmayeaux]

If I recall, the N64 was difficult to get at first (I mean, for a lot of people, this was the first 3D system so it was HOT!!!). I vaguely remember people in 1997 having a hard time finding one too. Definitely by 1998, you could find stock in Wal-Mart daily. By 2002, they were trying to get rid of every last one they had on clearance! (making way for Xbox, PS2, and GameCube)!

[samuelallen]

DKC3 and Kirby’s Dream Land 3 are both EXEMPLARY

[NexVoidGaming]

I... Thought I was older than 9 when the N64 came out... Man... How time flies!

[shenloken]

Donkey Kong Country 3 gets flack for being the “weakest” of the DKC trilogy on SNES.
But honestly it gave you a lot more to do and provided more of a challenge than the previous two entries. You can’t say Rare got lazy with it just cause Nintendo 64 came out.
And I still find Wrinkly Kong playing on an N64 with that 16 bit rendition of ‘Peach’s Castle 64’ very endearing. ❤️

[I_Am_Doctor_Quirky]

Terranigma was definitely looked over greatly. A very good action RPG. One of my favourites for sure

[popculturehero]

We played a lot of Timon and Pumbas Jungle games on the PC. It was surreal how a game could have that Disney animated look at the time,
and it had quite a variety of mini games, the one with the most depth was the puzzle game that was like puyo pop with bugs. This makes me interested in checking out the Super Nintendo version.

Also Lost Vikings 2 is going on my list. The original is a classic. Great reminiscing.