Ana Szein

The top 10 SNES platformers everyone should play

The Super Nintendo had its fair share of great games spanning plenty of genres, but 2D platformers especially shined in the system’s heyday. Trying to parse through all of the excellent platformers on the system is daunting, and filtering that into a top ten is even more challenging, but there are a few classics that especially stand the test of time with their creative approaches to gameplay and the progress that they imposed on the genre. Stunning art and music, crafty level design, and loads of content are present in many of the titles on this list, and several use other genres in inventive ways. Consider every game on this list a necessary adventure if you consider yourself a platformer fan.