Super Nintendo (General snes gaming thread)

ActRaiser: In this game you play as god (though the game doesn't say so directly). There are 2 main parts to this game, platforming stages, and simulation stages. In the simulation stages you are an angel in an overworld type view. You fly around have to shoot monsters with your bow and arrow while directing your people where to build. The more people in your towns the higher your level. In the platforming stages your are a hero who wields a sword and you cut up monsters and jump over deadly spikes and bottomless pits, and then you fight a boss at the end of every stage. It's a fairly short game, with a total of 12 platform stages, 6 simulation stages, and a boss rush to end the game. It can be tough at first, but once you get a hang of the controls it's a lot of fun! The simulation stages aren't boring at all either in case you might be worried about that. All in all, it will take you about 6 to 7 hours to complete this game on your first try

Gradius III: Space space shooter goes dooter dooter dooter, I'm making sound effects like a computer game. This is a very fun yet tough space shooter game. You get upgrades such as speed ups, missiles, lasers, shields, and a thing called "option" (It's basically a red ball that helps you with fire power making it easier to kill enemies and you are able to get up to 4). There are 10 stages with a boss at the end of all of them, along with 1 part of the game where you fight 5 bosses in a row. If you die at any point you'll lose all your upgrades and it's very hard to win after, so it's usually a good idea to just start over. A very rough game but lots of fun once you figure out something that works for you. There's 3 difficulties; easy, medium, and hard, so if you really have to much trouble on the default difficulty you can always nudge it down to easy if you need too. Getting all the way through the game takes about 30 minutes provided you don't die, so it's a fairly short game but has a lot of replay value to it. This is my favorite space shooter game for the snes so far, and it has a really nice sound track as well!

Sim City: I grew up with this game as a kid for a few years. It's pretty simple, you pick a map and you build houses, parks, roads, train tracks, power stations, fire stations, police stations, industrial zones, commercial zones, air ports and sea ports. It's probably one of the easiest town simulators out of any game ever. People come to live in your city, once you have enough people in your city you get rewarded with something and you keep building your city. It sounds boring at first but once you start playing it, it's very easy to get into it and lose track of time. Especially with some of the chillest music you'll find on a Supre Nintendo game. Go for a Megalopolis! (500,000 people in your city)

Sparkster: In this game you control an Opossum Knight that flies around with a jetpack while cutting up enemies with a sword that can fire energy bolts. This is a very fast paced platformer, probably the fastest one I can think of! The gameplay is a lot of fun, there are lots of enemies, plenty of bosses, death traps, and various gameplay stages. There's one stage where you're in a giant robot punching out your arch nemesis! But for the most part you're running through differently themed areas slashing up anything in your way. This is a really fun game I highly recommend it! I'd say on your first time through this game would be about 2 or 3 hours long

Super Metroid: The last Metroid is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace... Samus Aran, having successfully completed her latest mission, sets off to find a new bounty to hunt but she doesn't get far. A distress call, an exploration of an abandoned research facility and an encounter with an old and unexpected enemy draw her back into the saga of the Metroids, and back to the site of her first ever encounter with them. This is seriously the greatest game you will ever play, you get power ups like crazy; morph ball, bombs, power bombs, missiles, super missiles, suit upgrades, charge beam, spazer/wave/ice/plasma beam upgrades, energy tanks, screw attack, hi-jump boots, space jump, you'll be so powerfull you'll feel invincible! This game has some great bosses and one of the most legendary final bosses ever: Mother Brain. The game is big with amazing graphics on a huge map system with plenty of puzzling areas, and even better the game control is phenomenal. This game is so good you can beat it over and over again and it just never gets boring! This game is absolutely a must-play game! On your first time going through it could take about 7-14 hours to complete, while once you get used to it and get really good you can easily beat it in 1 hour or less.
Even after beating this game multiple times, I look on the internet to find rom hacks of it just to continue to enjoy its spectacular gameplay!