Game Reviews8/10
Rock n’ Roll Racing: Aggression Is the Fastest Route Up the Field
Rock n' Roll Racing hit the SNES in 1993 with four cars, four laps, licensed metal, and combat-first racing where attacking beats a clean line.
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Tag: SNES
Game Reviews7.7/10
Populous shrinks to a console without losing its hold on you
Populous on SNES still holds up as the first god game, where you play a deity raising land, building mana and wiping out rival followers.
Game Reviews8.1/10
How a Slow Super Nintendo Farming Game Became One of the Most Beloved Series in the Genre
Harvest Moon, the 1996 Super Nintendo farm sim from Yasuhiro Wada, reviewed: slow, strict, and the blueprint for cozy games. Score: 8.1 of 10.
Game Reviews6.5/10
Breath of Fire II arrived in 1994 as the second entry in Capcom’s role-playing series, a direct sequel set 500 years after the first game.
Breath of Fire II review: Capcom's 1994 Super Nintendo follow-up with nine playable characters, town building, and dragon powers. Ambitious but uneven. 6.5/10.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Breath of Fire Review: Capcom’s First RPG Still Earns Its Place
A retro review of Breath of Fire, Capcom's first RPG, on Super Nintendo: Ryu, the Light Dragon Clan, six keys, eight party members, and a 7.9 score.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Illusion of Gaia: Quintet’s Strange, Spare SNES RPG Holds Up
Illusion of Gaia, Quintet's 1993 SNES action RPG, sends Will through Incan ruins and Angkor Wat to stop a comet — a strange, spare classic that still holds up.
Game Reviews7.6/10
ActRaiser 2: A Winged God, a Battering Ram, and a Score of 7.6
ActRaiser 2 dropped the city-building sim for pure platforming. A review of Quintet's harder, stranger 1993 SNES sequel about a winged god with a sword.
Game Reviews8.4/10
SNES god game Actraiser mixes city-building with swordplay, and nothing since has copied the trick
ActRaiser on the SNES fused side-scrolling action with city-building simulation. A retrospective on Quintet's 1990 cult classic, its ending, and its legacy.
Game Reviews9.6/10
Tetris Attack Is the Best Puzzle Game on the Super NES, and It Is Not Really Tetris
Tetris Attack (Panel de Pon) is a 1995 SNES puzzle masterpiece with nothing to do with Tetris — and one of the best versus games on the console.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Super Street Fighter II Sticks the Landing on 16-Bit Hardware
Super Street Fighter II hit the SNES in 1994 as the most complete home version of Capcom's fighter, adding Cammy, Fei Long, T. Hawk and Dee Jay.
Game Reviews7.3/10
Super Punch-Out!! Referees a Faster, Meaner Rematch
Super Punch-Out!! hit the SNES on October 24, 1994. A look at its stance-based boxing, power meter, roster and why it feels colder than the NES classic.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Super Bomberman 2’s Odd Detours Are What Make It Worth Playing
Super Bomberman 2 (1994) review: the only Super Bomberman game with no two-player story mode, re-released in 2026. Score: 8.5/10.