Share your SNES memories and the last game you played
North America iscelebrating30 years of Super Nintendo today, and it’s a system we have such fond memories of. So to the tune of Little River Band, let’s goreminiscing.
While many of us have ample room in our hearts for a lot of retro video game consoles, none resonate with me quite like the SNES. This was my favorite system growing up in the ’90s, and it remains my favorite to this day — I’m stillout hereresearching, buying, playing, and even just listening to Super Nintendo games on a pretty much weekly basis.
On this day 30 years ago, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System launched in North America! What are some of your favorite#SNESgames and memories?pic.twitter.com/NjpZqPi9U9
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica)July 16, 2025
Do you have that one cherished console you’d grab and take with you in an emergency we-gotta-leave-nowsituation? The SNES is mine, for sure, though it’s not a fun mental exercise to work through, and I’d struggle to whittle down a list of favorite titles to a single best-of-the-best pick. There are too many to name — too many games that hold up favorably to this day — but I guess I’d save my originalDonkey Kong Country 2cartridge for sentimental reasons. It took me whole summers to see everything that game had to offer.
As much as major anniversaries like this can instantly make us feel old, when I think about the Super Nintendo, it’s like I’m a kid again. Drifting away in class daydreaming about an unbelievable boss I faced the night before inYoshi’s Island, rushing to finish homework so I’d be able to make a little more progress, those amazing trips to a friend’s house or a rental store to maximize my budget-constrained gaming — those were such great days.
Although I appreciate save states and other niceties for games likeEarthBoundandSuper Castlevania IV, there’s no greater feeling to me than slotting in a cart (maybe with a bit of rental-sticker residue) and playing with my original still-hanging-in-there gamepad.
Whether you’re still playing Super Nintendo games today with your original now-yellowed system, a hobbyist product like the Super Nt or MiSTer, a modded-out mini console like the Super NES Classic Edition, or your Nintendo Switch’s eclectic virtual library, we want to hear about it.Your memories, in general, but also the last game you played.
A few stray Super Nintendo thoughts from the Destructoid staff to kick us off:
