The Super Famicom Mini comes with 21 games pre-loaded, including the never before released Star Fox 2. But if you could add one game to it, what would it be?
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In a special issue of Famitsu, some of Japan’s most famous developers were asked that.
Here are the games they picked:
- Daisuke Ishiwatari (Arc System Works) – Otogiriso
- Toshimichi Mori (Arc System Works) – Xardion
- Katsura Hashino (Atlus) – R-Type 3
- 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 3
- Yozo Sakagami (Namco Bandai) – Sim City
- Yusuke Tomizawa (Namco Bandai) – Cybernator
- Katsuhiro Harada (Namco Bandai) – Super Momotaro Dentetsu 2
- 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 (Marvellous) – ActRaiser
- Yoshifumi Hashimoto (Marvellous) – Space Megaforce
- Chiyomaru Shikura (MAGES) – Pilotwings
- Akihiro Hino (Level-5) – Out of This World
Interesting list, no? Especially the inclusion of Sound Fantasy.
*Dude, you are supposed to pick one game, not three. **Oh, for fuck’s sake.
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10 responses to “Famed Japanese Developers List Games They’d Add To Super Famicom Mini”
– Super Mario All Stars
– Plok
– Bubsy
@matt1234 Wow, those are pretty much my exact choices (yes including Bubsy).
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a nice little addition.
But it’s still a crime that Chrono Trigger isn’t on it!
Sorry, pressed submit by accident.
Was also meant to say good to see other designers/developers also recommend that classic.
Oh yeah. Out of this World and Flashback!
Shadowrun was also great but prob unplayable now.
I’d also love Super Star Wars, the entire trilogy but now I’m just wishing.
The most glaring omission for me is Pilotwings. It’s first party US Launch title!
Such a shame that they didn’t use the opportunity to localise Secret of Mana 2/Seiken Densetsu 3 at the same time.
Chrono Trigger
R-Type III
Super Double Dragon
Final Fight
Super Bomber Man
Gradius III
TMNT Turtles In Time
Super Smash TV
NBA Jam
Earthworm Jim
Final Fight
All the mega man and square rpgs that didn’t make it. Seriously, they could have added loads more games but then they wouldn’t be able to gouge or drop feed customers via the virtual console .
Also, isn’t this console supposed to be rare or something?
I’ve walked into three different retailers in the last two days and they’ve had them available.
Obviously not EB but jeez, don’t people shop around these days or use some initiative to find what they want?
Chrono Trigger, Harvest Moon and Shadowrun. If they were on it I would have bought one in a heartbeat.