There’s so many great games on the SNES Mini that’s it’s an extremely difficult job to choose a favourite. Japanese gaming publication Famitsu questioned a number of famed developers to choose the games they would have put on the system and there’s some good answers. If you’re interested, here’s the full list of recommendations:
- Daisuke Ishiwatari (Arc System Works) – Otogiriso
- Toshimichi Mori (Arc System Works) – Xardion
- Katsura Hashino (Atlus) – R-Type III
- Kazuyuki Yamai (Atlus) – ActRaiser
- Shintaro Kojima (Capcom) – Umihara Kawase
- Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Capcom) – International Superstar Soccer
- Ryozo Tsujimoto (Capcom) – EarthBound
- Kaname Fujioka (Capcom) – EarthBound
- Kenichi Ogasawara (Tecmo Koei) – Tactics Ogre
- Keisuke Kikuchi (Tecmo Koei) – Mystery Dungeon: Shiren the Wanderer
- Tomokazu Takeda (Tecmo Koei) – Torneko no Daiboken: Fushigi no Dungeon
- Yosuke Hayashi (Tecmo Koei) – ActRaiser
- Hiroshi Matsuyama (CyberConnect2) – Chrono Trigger
- Ryutaro Ichimura (Square Enix) – Front Mission
- Yoshinori Kitase (Square Enix) – Sim City
- Yosuke Saito (Square Enix) – Wonder Project J: Kikai no Shonen Pino
- Naoki Yoshida (Square Enix) – Tactics Ogre
- Kotaro Uchikoshi (Spike Chunsoft) – Banshee’s Last Cry
- Kazutaka Kodaka (Spike Chunsoft) – Romancing SaGa 2, Marvel Super Heroes In War of the Gems, SOS*
- Yoshinori Terasawa (Spike Chunsoft) – Super Fire Pro Wrestling, Pilot Wings, Sim City, and nine more games.**
- Yosuke Okunari (Sega) – Otogiriso
- Toshihiro Nagoshi (Sega) – Pilotwings
- Mizuki Hosoyamada (Sega) – Super Puyo Puyo
- Masahiro Sakurai (Sora) – Gradius III
- Yozo Sakagami (Namco Bandai) – Sim City
- Yusuke Tomizawa (Namco Bandai) – Cybernator
- Katsuhiro Harada (Namco Bandai) – Super Momotaro Dentetsu II
- Atsushi Inaba (Platinum Games) – Chrono Trigger
- Hideki Kamiya (Platinum Games) – Cybernator
- Masataka Matsuura (FuRyu) – Bounty Sword
- Tsunekazu Ishihara (The Pokémon Company) – Sound Fantasy (never released)
- Kenichiro Takaki (Marvelous) – ActRaiser
- Yoshifumi Hashimoto (Marvelous) – Space Megaforce
- Chiyomaru Shikura (MAGES) – Pilotwings
- Akihiro Hino (Level-5) – Out of This World
ActRaiser and Shadowrun.
Japan didn’t get Earthbound? Odd.
Chrono Trigger