My Least Favorite Super Nintendo Games

Even the mighty Super Nintendo had some stinkers. Here are 10 of my least favorite.

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Opening "Sega" jingle is from Astal for the Sega Saturn.

Ending Music during the credits is from Batman for the Sega Genesis.

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By: Jan Neves

Intro by Evan S.

Episode Notes:

1. Captured on real hardware except for Vortex. I don't own that one.

2. If you thought 32X Doom was bad, go play the SNES version. I feel kinda rough including it because the main work of the port was done by just one guy. Still, it sucks.

3. I initially had 20 games for this episode but cut it down. A part 2 is definitely possible.

4. Yokai Buster was based on a new Japanese property at the time. The Jetsons was used to quickly get a game out featuring it.

5. WWF Royal Rumble and WWF Raw take the Super Wrestlemania formula and really improve it. Both are on the Genesis as well.

6. Chester Cheetah Too Cool to Fool is bad on the Genesis, too.

[balaam_]

I miss the days of wildly different hardware and wildly different exclusives.

[jaysherman]

Doom on Snes is a really interesting thing. It is a great tech demo and back in the day you would play it because you had no other choice. Now, there are better options.

[ProfessorHurt]

I kind of love SNES Doom. For those who didn't have a PC. This game was amazing.

[costby]

Randy Linden pretty much took porting doom to the Snes as a challenge. Same way he too to getting an accurate port of Dragon's lair to the Amiga on 6 floppy disks or getting PlayStation emulation working on the Dreamcast with Bleem!.

[nefariousmex]

As a kid I somehow had some kind of fun even with the shittiest of games Timecop included...The innocence of youth

[mattant]

I remember getting Pitfighter and Home Alone for Christmas one year and both were terrible, when my parents asked if I liked them, I didn’t want to sound ungrateful so I lied to them and told them I liked them, I got Home Aline 2 the following Christmas 🤣

[Spartan]

I can relate to your experience with AVP. The arcade machine was hard to find and this game was like a kick to the family jewels.

[Leeki]

Keep in mind that DOOM had higher requirements than Crysis at their release date. Most people experienced DOOM on PC with really low FPS and in very small window when game launched. It took 1995, 1996 PCs to run DOOM locked to max FPS all the time.
DOOM on SNES runs similarly to what you could expect from average 386 PC which was a mainstream hardware for 1993. However you would get all the game mechanics and fully textured floors and ceilings, but still 10-15 FPS in a bit reduced window.

Anyway I would be happy with such port back then. I was playing DOOM on my 386SX machine and it wasn't great either, but I still enjoyed it.

[AVGNROCKS]

Eh, I feel like you’re being a bit harsh on SNES Doom, while it’s definitely compromised it was the only way to play Doom without shelling out cash for new expensive consoles, add-ons, or PC hardware. If you didn’t have anything to compare it too, it’s definitely still playable.

[midwestmonster]

Mario is Missing was my disappointing childhood rental story. I didn't even realize I was getting an edutainment game. I saw the box cover and assumed I was renting the platformer that was meant to tied gamers over until a proper Super Mario World 2 could be released. _Mario is defeated by Bowser and it's up to Luigi to save the day? This is gonna be awesome._

[johncarolina]

I will watch Sega Lord X skewer a bad game literally any day. Something about the way he delivers it just makes me laugh so much lol

[thekenner]

I feel your Alien vs. Predator experience so much. I remember my best friend and I playing the magnificent arcade game, and in the same week we saw the SNES version at Blockbuster. There are far worse games, but our expectations were mutilated that weekend.

[barryschalkwijk]

I loved Snes doom. The framerate got tolerable after an hour or so and after hat it was a great game. Just a shame you couln't save or at least choose a campaign.

[ironinquisitor]

I didn't find SNES Doom to be as bad as people say when I checked it out. What breaks it for me with Doom on SNES is no save at all, not even a password system, or specific level select. I'd rather play SNES Doom over 3DO and Saturn Doom tbh if I had too.

[thingsiplay]

I don't agree with you about DOOM should never been released on the SNES. It was my introduction to the game and for a SNES game it is quite good in my opinion. The biggest problem with the game is it lacks any way of saving progress. The visuals are not bad at all. In fact, game is surprisingly playable and impressive to me. Could it have been better? Probably yes. But what I got there at that time, it was good enough for me. DOOM on the SNES is a miracle.

[Jinx_Skeel]

back in the day the SNES Doom port was the only available for me, PCs were so damn expensive at the time. I loved it, Doom is still on the top of my favourite games, alongside starcraft and diablo

[dementeddaniel]

Hey now... SNES Doom was perfect in my eyes, since I had no PC. I still have it in box to this day and play it occasionally. I never had any issues with the controls since the shoulder buttons were used for strafing. The D-pad and buttons were always super responsive. My only issue with the game was that you couldn't save your progress. I also still play it on the 32X, but with the volume turned down.

[ATeaDaze]

It's amazing they ported Doom to the SNES. The programmer used a lot of creative techniques. One of them was using a table of formulas and return values instead of making repeated, complex calculations on-the-fly. That being said, it's not very fun to play. I remember buying it and feeling very underwhelmed by the small screen and muffled sound. The funny thing is I remember enjoying the 32x version and that game was universally hated

[germanascencio]

The worst thing is that street combat is a reskin from a Ranma 1/2 game, that's why the Gameplay does feel strange

[SuperHns]

I agree so much with your intro. I was also fortunate to have a nice gaming PC back in the 90s so I had 3 epic platforms with games! Sega MD, SNES and game pc!