The Best Classic RPGs for Your SNES Console

The days of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, or SNES were key formative years of my youth. I spent hours playing Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, and dozens more classic platform games. However, it was the RPGs, those role playing classics like Final Fantasy and A Link to the Past that had the most effect on me. I spent days beating Zelda two and three times, so enamored with the game as a whole that I couldn't wait to play through it one more time when I was finished.

There were dozens of games just like that, that caught my attention and forced me to feel something special through my television. It may be the big and powerful consoles these days vying for the best and most impressive graphics around, but it's those epic RPGs of the 1990s with storylines of gold, and characters that I'll never forget that truly impressed upon me the gaming mentality I still carry with me today. And these are the best of those many many games.

Final Fantasy III
Final Fantasy VI, released in the US as Final Fantasy III is one of those games that not only defines for a generation what an RPG is, but managed to help the SNES go out on one heck of a high note. The game was a dozen steps forward in nearly every facet of RPG gaming, from the graphics, to the epic story line and a cast of characters that few would ever forget. The villain, Kefka is one of the dirtiest, rottenest bad guys to ever set foot in a video game and until the next Final Fantasy was released no one argued that this Final Fantasy was the greatest of them all (which, by the way, many will still say if you ask them.)