What are your top 10 games on Nintendo?

[Nutmeg]

Nobody cared about adapting games for NES and SNES when developing PC games

Dragon Slayer 4: Drasle Family was arguably made with the Famicom in mind. Konami's PC (MSX, mainly) games were usually made with the view of having a Famicom parallel alternative (famously Akumajou Dracula, Metal Gear, arguably Contra). Likewise HAL and the Lolo series of games. Koei were also definitely thinking about both the Famicom and Super Famicom when designing their primarily PC based strategy games.

Tho you are right that it wasn't the Nintendo platforms, but rather the Sega Mega Drive and NEC PC Engine that had more games developed with "both PC and console" in mind. The former due to sharing the same chip as the Sharp X68000 and the Amiga hence you get Wolfteam and Technosoft in Japan and Bitmap Brothers and Rainbow Arts in the West making a bunch of PC and Mega Drive cross platform games. As for the PC Engine, I assume it's due to NEC handing out big money to develop PC Engine versions of games alongside PC 88 and PC 98 versions -- a business strategy Microsoft would replicate a decade later in the West with the XBox. Speaking of "first party" porting efforts, Sega made a huge investment bringing over Falcom PC games to the Mega Drive themselves, but ofc. this is different to them being developed with the Mega Drive in mind in the first place.

 

[Falksi]

Snes list, also peak video game music era.

Lufia2: Rise of Sinistrals - This was the best Snes RPG, and so is it's 100 level dungeon mode.
FFVI
Secret of Mana
Tales of Phantasia
Megaman X Series
Super Metroid or Metroid
Seiken Densetsu 3
Zelda Link to the Past
Terranigma
Bahamut Lagoon
Brain Lord

See, odd exception aside, this is mostly the type of overhyped mediocrity I'm talking about....

Lufia 2 - Great game, agree it's one of the best SNES RPGs
FFVI - hit and miss game with some excellent elements, but there's better versions out there anyway
Secret of Mana - Hardly any roleplaying elements, simplistic shit with poor combat and bad mechanics
Tales of Phantasia - Good story, ridiculously repetitive and tedious encounter rate and combat
Megaman X Series - Hilariously archaic games. Megaman can't even fucking duck, never mind shoot in 8 directions.
Super Metroid or Metroid - Super Metroid is good, overrated because there's loads of backtracking through vapid areas with popcorn enemies which offer 0 resistance, but it's still good.
Seiken Densetsu 3 - Secret of Mana bettered in a lot of ways, but now they've removed the ability to run through enemies it becomes tedious
Zelda Link to the Past - Genuinely fantastic game. One of the few which lived up to the hype. Masterpiece.
Terranigma - Good game, but too poorly paced to be a true great.
Bahamut Lagoon - WAY too easy. After around 4 or 5 battles if you feed your dragons right they game literally plays itself, as they all auto-kill everything before your main troops even get there.
Brain Lord - OK if you like puzzley dungeons....and very little else.

Loads of people hype these games up as if they're something amazing, it's like some weird trend, but I've played and finished all of them, and there's only 3 there which I'd ever recommend or return too on SNES.

some of your opinions are ass.

Megaman X, it has dodge/slide mechanically implemented like dark souls.
FFVI, what's missing? it was one of the premier releases that pushed the hardware of the time and is solid all round. Its still enjoyable in 2024 and better than at least half released FF games.
Super Metroid, just wrong as most backtracking is leveraging new powers. They made Metroids with more linearity and less backtracking and they are mediocre.

Maybe these games are too old for Gen-Z that needs 3D graphics open-world slop but they are still very solid games for 2024.

You're just Nintendo reared, so still low-level gaming.

Megaman X dodge/slide doesn't stop it from feeling and playing like an 8-bit era game with it's general mechanics.

FFVI starts with literally 20 hours of completely frictionless enemies. You can win every single fight including bosses (apart from Kefka) by spamming resource-free attacks, such as Edgars Drill, for the first 20-ish hours. You then get 5-8 hours of good balanced gameplay when you hit the ruined world, but then it descends into broken gaming again, as the likes of Ultima and the Genji glove break every single fight.

"most backtracking is leveraging new powers" so yes, it has backtracking, most of it across boring frictionless areas as I said.

You've just been reared on Nintendo and are still getting to grips with gaming. My first home system was a BBC Micro in 1982, so your poor gaming judgment extends to poor generational judgement too.

 

[anvi]

Snes list, also peak video game music era.

Lufia2: Rise of Sinistrals - This was the best Snes RPG, and so is it's 100 level dungeon mode.
FFVI
Secret of Mana
Tales of Phantasia
Megaman X Series
Super Metroid or Metroid
Seiken Densetsu 3
Zelda Link to the Past
Terranigma
Bahamut Lagoon
Brain Lord

See, odd exception aside, this is mostly the type of overhyped mediocrity I'm talking about....

I agree based on most of what I've seen. Although I loved Mario Kart against other people. And FFT. I heard GameCube was good.

 

[Phinx]

Not a top 10, but some memorable games worth trying.

Zombies ate my neighbors
Contra III
Earthworm Jim 1 & 2
TMNT- Tournament Fighters
Lost Vikings
Lufia II
Batman Returns
Biker Mice from Mars (looks like a basic Rock 'n' Roll racing clone, but has a very high skill ceiling and very unique racers)

 

[Fedora Master]

I like the one where the little guy goes BING BING WAHOO
Also those RPGs with the little girls in tiny skirts

 

[Ryzer]

Super mario Sunshine
Zelda wind waker
Metroid prime 1-2
Smash bros melee
F-Zero GX
Star Fox adventures
Zelda twilight princess
Sonic adventures 2
Super Monkey ball
Kid Icarus uprising
Super Mario 3D land
Mario kart double dash
Castlevania portrait of ruins/ Order of ecclesia / dawn of sorrow

I can't do only 10, there are too many good nintendo games.

 

[Iucounu]

I liked the handheld Game & Watch "Turtle Bridge" when it came out in 1982:

 

[Gastrick]

In no particular order:

Mario 64
Mario 3
Metroid Prime (Wii or PC)
Link to the Past
Pokemon Soul Silver
One Piece Gigant Battle
Punch Out
Mega Man X
Wii Sports Resort
Smash Bros series

 

[Nifft Batuff]

If you include the Switch:

Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate 2
Icewind Dale
Planescape Torment
Neverwinter Nights
Pillars of Eternity
Divinity original Sin
Divinity Original Sin 2
Wasteland 2
Disco Elysium

Spoiler

 

[Ash]

Originally exclusives only, obviously, so no Doom port or Earthworm Jim. Lots of dual entries from a series, pick one or the other they're both good:

The Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening/The Legend of Zelda Link to the Past (definitive Nintendo games)
Mario Bros 3, and only Mario Bros 3 not any other lesser Mario (the peak 2D platformer for the longest time).
Final Fantasy 5/Final Fantasy 6 (Total classics)
Duke Nukem: Zero Hour (One of the most competent third person shooters ever made, still to date. Just be sure to turn off aim assist unless you're a fag)
Donkey Kong Country 1/Donkey Kong Country 2 (not the greatest gameplay though still good, but elevated by things like godly music)
Castlevania Portrait of ruins/Order of Ecclesia (can't really go wrong)
Pokemon Gen 1/Pokemon Gen 2 (genuinely good games, despite what may be assumed upon a glance. The combat is somewhat simplistic though executed well, but other aspects of gameplay are quite good, like puzzle elements, resource management and level design. Hard to recommend to an adult nonetheless)
Resident Evil 4 (released on Gamecube first)
Kirby Funpack A.K.A Superstar (The epicness of this game takes time to manifest. Payoff is worth it though. Best played in coop with a friend)
Turok 1/Turok 2 (arguably the most hardcore FPS of the 90s, and super cool)

Honorable Mentions: Golden Sun 2, Doom 64, Warioland 1, Yoshi's Island., Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, James Bond 007 (Gameboy).

Nintendo > Sega. Much to Falski's dismay. I grew up indulging in both equally (almost). Both are utterly demolished by PC and PS1 though, in sheer quality library.

 

[Nos]

Console trash who cares?
Fond memories of this one though: