The Super Nintendo was known for having a large assort of games from a variety of different genres, as it was a thirဣd-party powerhouse. One genre that shined on the platform was fighting games.
While there were many attempts to make competent fighting games prior, the modern fighting game was born in the same generation as the Super Nintendo. Because of this, there were many great experimental games that not only provided fun gameplay but also pushed the gen♏re forward. As a way of thanking the system that helped grow the modern fighting ga༒me into what i🌱t is today, here are the 10 best fighting games released on the Super Nintendo.
10 Sailor Moon S
There were very few anime series that were actually successful in the West back in the 90s. However, Pokémon and Sailor Moon were huge exceptions. While the Sailor Scouts were loved in the West,꧙ they were loved even more in their county of origin, with nine Ja෴panese exclusive Super Nintendo games.
Sailor Moon S is a one on one fighter where you c💃an play as one of the Sailor Scouts, all with different stats and individual special moves. The game is incredibly broken, with many mechanics being very unbalanced and even some cases of blocking being more harmful than actually taking an attack.
9 Mཧighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Fighting Edition
In Mighty Morphin Poweꩵr Rangers: The Fighting Edition, rather than fighting as one of the Rangers, yo🐟u fight as one of the Zords, their large mechs that tower most city buildings. You are only able to choose either the Thunder Megazord or the Mega Tigerzord in the Story Mode, and, throughout the rest of the game, you will fight with the rest of the Zords. Over the course of the game, you will also fight Ivan Ooze, the main antagonist of the Mighty Morphin P﷽ower Rangers movie, who is incredibly broken.
8 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
While many are aware of the Turtles beat ‘em up game for the Super Nintendo, many o🅠verlook the ജone on one fighter created for the system. In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters, you can fight as one of the four Turtles or one of their many foes from the comics rather than the television show likꦛe Shredder, Wingnut, aꦇnd Chromedome.
The battles take place in familiar settings, and each character control🐽s differently with their own specials. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle🌼s: Tournament Fighters was also ported over the Nintendo Entertainment൩ System and thꦫe Sega Genesis, both🦹 somewhat different than the Super Nintendo port.
7 Street Fighter: Alpha 2
While the port of Street Fighter: Alpha 2 on the Super Nintendo is very limited and not as polished as its arcade counterpart, it 🧸is a miracle that Capcom even squeezed it o🀅nto a cartridge and for that, it earns some respect. Street Fighter: Alpha 2 takes place before Street Fighter II with🧸👍 many new characters, some of which were enemies or playable characters in the Final Fight series. The Street Fighter: Alpha games take on a much more anime-inspir💦ed art styl🐟e which was later used in Capcom’s Marvel vs. Capcom series.
6 Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension
While there were many Dragon Ball Z fighting gam🦩es on the Super N🅺intendo, many only pay attention to the Super Butoden trilogy and ig🍰nore the much more competent and visually༒ appealing Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension. Hyper Dimension features a long story that goes through the majoඣrity of the Dragon Ball Z story, taking place from the Frieza saga, all the way up to the Buu saga.
Dragon Ball Z: Hyper Dimension was released in 1996, long into the Super Nin🦂tendo’s lifecycle. Because of this, Hyper Dimension is a graphical showcase for the system with highly detaile🤪d animations for characters and background, and Frieza’s transformation pre-fight is especially impressive.
5 Justice League Task Force
Justice League Task Force was developed by Sunsoft and Blizzard, the same company that ✱created World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch. Justice League Task Force can be thought of as a168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Super Nintendo version of Injustice as you can play as different members of the Justice League li🌞ke Superman and Wonder Women, as well as villains like Dar🦂k Seid and Desparo.
Each battle takes place in different settings seen through the comic book series like Gothꦉam City, Atlantis, and Metropolis. Also included is a story mode where you get a personalized intro based on the character you choose.
4 Gundam Wing Endless Duel
Gundam Wing Endless Duel takes many of the awesome mechs found in the anime and ha🎉s them fight one-on-one. This SNES fighter is exclusive to Japan, and it's one of the best 16-bit fighting gam🐼es that rarely receives any attention. The game is filled with massive, colorful sprites that take up the majority of the screen, fast action, a🍸nd very little slowdown.
As you battle your massive mechs in Gundam Wing Endless Duel, you feel as if you are actually battling in large robots thanks to the 𒀰camera shaking and excellent sound design that is featured in the game.
3 Killer Instinct
Killer Instinct was developed by Rare and uses pꦕre-rendered graphics, ꩵwhich were made popular by Donkey Kong Country, which was also developed by Rare. Killer Instinct focuses heavily on building large combos with outlandish characters. Rather than having the ꧃round end when one of the character’s health depletes, in Killer Instinct, the match briefly pauses, and the downed player rises back up where the൲y fell, with the still-standing player not regenerating any health. There are also finishing moves that take inspiration from Mortal Kombat’s fatalities, as they are brutal to the point of being ridicu🥃lous.
2 Mortal Kombat 3
Mortal Kombat 3 is the entry in the series that brought many of the series staples that are still in the latest entries today. Kꦑabal, Cyrax, Sektor, Nightwolf, and more all made their first appearance in Mortal Kombat 3. The game also added a run button that could be used to close the distance between you and your opponent s⛄o you can continueꦯ the onslaught of attacks.
Also added was chain combos that allow you to hit your opponent multiple times before they can attack again, something that is a𝓀 staple of most fighting games today.
1 Street Fighter II
While the first game in the series laid the groundwork forౠ the series, it wasn’t unt♛il Street Fighter II 🌠when the framework for all fighting games to be created afterward was created. Street Fighter II has incre📖dibly tight gameplay, along with a large selection of characters that all control and feel vastly different.
Street Fighter II was followed up with many different iterations that improved upon the formula made in theꦺ first game. Even the most recent entry, Street Fighter V, is structured identically to Street Fighter II, but with a few added bells and whistles.