Favorite games of the SNES era?

Or anything not of that era but designed to look like they are from that era like Stardew Valley and whatnot, anything that provides a good reference point for inspiration.

Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy VI
Tetris
Super Mario Bros 3

SNES-era? The time period when the SNES was sold (1990-2003)?

Or more like the 4th console generation, often called the 16-bit era? Which ran from 1987 (release of the PC Engine) to 2004 (discontinuation of the Neo Geo)? Although the turning point where the next generation began to take over was in 1996.

Do you specifically mean console games, or do home computer (Amiga, Atari ST) and PC games count as well?

I didn't had the chance to play a lot of SNES while growing up (Nobody in my friends-circle had one. It was either crappy 286 PC, an 8-bit homecomputer like the Commodore 64, MSX, and/or ZX Spectrum; 8-bit NES, or a 16-bit Commodore Amiga, or a Sega Megadrive.)

Let alone play some of these topdown (J)RPG's the SNES is so famous for. I know there are a few good supposedly ones on the Megadrive/Genesis, like Beyond Oasis, Phantasy Star IV, and Shining Force, but I haven't played them (much) yet.

But '2D' games I DO know from that time period, and of which I think are good (even when some of them don't live up to modern standards, and most are sidescrollers):

-Sega Megadrive/Genesis:
Castlevania: Bloodlines
Sonic 1, 2, 3, and Knuckles
Streets of Rage 2 and 3
Eliminate Down
Thunder Force IV/ Lightening Force [sic]
NHL '94
Golden Axe II
Battle Mania Daiginjō
Ecco: Tides of Time
Ghouls N Ghosts
Revenge of Shinobi

-NES:
Super Mario Bros 3

PC
Star Control 2
Dune 2
Command & Conquer (the first one)
Wing Commander series
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans


Amiga
Monkey Island 1 & 2
Pinball Fantasies
The Chaos Engine
Alien Breed: Tower Assault
Sensible World of Soccer
Lemmings 2: The Tribes
Another World (Out of this World for you Americans)
Flashback
Eye of the Beholder 1 & 2
Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis
Benefactor
Shadow of the Beast 1 and 3

Too many favorites...

Ooh and last but not least, since I only just obtained my first Supah Nintendough (an actual '91 boxy 'murrican one, which managed to stay grey after all these years!):

SNES:
Yoshi's Island

Nah, DKC2 is where it's at. What better game for a southerner than one where you play as a character called Dixie?

Except the third one sucks. Dixie can't hold her own game.

The first two are hella boss though.

Megaman X1, X2 and X3. Still remember the good times trying to grab the hadouken gauntlets.

I hate you crapcom for burying this series.

If we are just talking the era, then I'd ave to say that it was PC games like Comman and Conquer: Tiberium Conflict, Warcraft 2 and a bunch of adventures like Star Trek TNG: A final Unity.

If we are talking SNES games themselves, well, I never had one but at a friends place, we once spent an entire weekend playing through the Jurassic Park game. Those were good times.

Oh shit! HOW did I miss this thread?!?

I've been playing my mini-SNES all day (I'm American, unfortunately so Covid is still a menace)

Agreed about Super Metroid, it is fucking brilliant!







Honorable mentions are; Actraiser, Pilotwings, F-Zero, Zelda LTTP & of course Final Fantasy 3