Which Console has the best library of games?

[Ed Oscuro]

NES/Famicom too, over 2000 games, maybe 150 good/excellent titles (most likely even less).

thanks for passing judgment on games you haven't played, in my future endeavors this will help alot

[boatofcar]

Ok this poll is starting to make me mad now lol. Where is the respect for the great NES system that birthed a majority of the popular franchises still going today? Can someone tell me what is so great about the SNES besides the RPG's because I do not understand it.

Obviously you've already come to your own conclusions, so why should we bother to try and change your mind? If you think the NES has a better library of games than the SNES, that's your opinion, and it's just as valid as any other.

I vote for NES. I enjoy more games on it than I do any of the other systems. There are about 50 games I love on the NES, while the SNES may have half that many.

[VG_Maniac]

SNES gets my vote for sure:


Super Mario World
Pilotwings
F-Zero
Actraiser
Gradius III
Super R-Type
R-Type III
Sim City
Final Fantasy II
Super Castlevania IV
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Contra III: The Alien Wars
TMNT IV: Turtles in Time
Super Mario Kart
Star Fox
Super Mario All-Stars
Secret of Mana
Mega Man X
Mega Man X2
Mega Man X3
Super Metroid
Super Punch-Out!!
Final Fantasy III
Super Star Wars
Super Empire Strikes Back
Super Return of the Jedi
Illusion of Gaia
Breath of Fire
Breath of Fire II
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Secret of Evermore
Killer Instinct
Chrono Trigger
Yoshi's Island
Lufia and the Fortress of Doom
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals
Castlevania: Dracula X (not as good as the real Dracula X, but still pretty good)
Super Mario RPG
Tetris Attack
Harvest Moon

[Ed Oscuro]

I don't see it that way, boat, he's asking to be enlightened!

Well then, the SNES has a number of games which make good use of the new graphics stuff with mode7, besides the RPGs the SNES was designed for (this is an accurate point): F-Zero and Super Mario Kart's psuedo-3D; Super CV4 and some other decent upgrades to NES style games (The Ninja Warriors is an excellent stage-sweeper brawling game; Undercover Cops is also a decent port); good spaceship shooting affairs (Aleste ain't so bad IMO), a number of great sidescroller character-based shooting games like Contra, Sunset Riders (I think this version beats the Genesis version, oddly enough!), and the Rainbow Arts games (Super Turrican 1 & 2, Rendering Ranger as well), top-down character based shooters like Pocky & Rocky 1/2.

Oh, and Wild Guns, excellent Cabal style game.

Surely I'm missing tons of stuff. Japan-only, but I just wanna throw out a reference to Otogirisou, a game that is surely worth more than $1 (to me at least!)

[PresidentLeever]

Ok this poll is starting to make me mad now lol. Where is the respect for the great NES system that birthed a majority of the popular franchises still going today? Can someone tell me what is so great about the SNES besides the RPG's because I do not understand it.

Like I and others have said, the percentage of crap on NES was huge. And it's not like the SNES wasn't any good beyond RPGs or Platformers. Check out (youtube) some of these examples:

Action:
Cybernator
Metal Warriors
Rendering Ranger
Blackthorne
Desert Fighter
Super Aleste

Puzzle:
Spanky's Quest
Puyo Puyo
Sutte Hakkun

Adventure:
Ganpuru
Alcahest
Flashback
Another World
Demon's Crest
Goemon series
Illusion of Gaia

Other:
Actraiser
Choplifter III
Clock Tower
Der Langrisser
The Firemen

[Game Freak]

1. SNES
2. PlayStation 2
3. Nintendo DS

IMO...FYI, i dont have a 360, or many Genny or PSX games.

[tom]

thanks for passing judgment on games you haven't played, in my future endeavors this will help alot

you are very welcome :-)

[Kid Ice]

The question is very open to interpretation. I understand crom's response. It appears that he is looking at it from the hit to miss ratio.

So are we asking:

-what system had the most good games relative to the total number of games in its library
(my answer = Vectrex)

-what system numerically had the most good games
(my answer = Atari VCS)

-what system had the most great games
(my answer = PSX)

[boogiecat]

echoing some of the sentiments above,

nes if restricted to these choices. ps2 if we're really talking overall.

Yeah if only PS2 was included in the choices well most likely it overtaken all of them...

[AMG]

Out of those choices, I'm going with the SNES.

[The 1 2 P]

I can't believe you actually put the SMS and the Atari 2600 up there. Nobody's going to vote for those.....except those people that just voted for them. Out of those systems the Nes gets my vote but the Genesis would take second place.

[MarioMania]

I picked the NES....

[Deadman]

I'm stumped that the SNES is winning by a 2:1 margin over the next closest. It backs up my theory that the NES and SNES have been raised to Godlike status in many videogame circles, due to helping resurrect the ailing industry I guess. I never owned either until recently and while they have nice games, the Genesis library is just superior. I rank them:

1. Genesis
2. NES
3. Atari 2600
4 Tie - SMS and SNES.

[Sosage]

The question is very open to interpretation. I understand crom's response. It appears that he is looking at it from the hit to miss ratio.

So are we asking:

-what system had the most good games relative to the total number of games in its library
(my answer = Vectrex)

I feel the same way about the question. I'm going to assume we're answering it via good games relative to its library size. In which case...the Dreamcast is always the first system I point to (although I understand the Vectrex answer and nod in approval ;P). Very few totally shitty titles in there. Almost every title outside of the small minority is at least moderate if not great.

SNES/Genesis/NES/PSX/PS2...they have a huge selection of great titles, but their libraries also carry with them a large caravan's worth of shit baggage.

[murdoc rose]

out of those choices I picked nes great system fun, large, and diverse library. snes and genny have all these things too but i've also been partial to the nes. If you mean to collect for the 2600 would so win

[makaar]

Love the SNES, in my opinion you can't beat it for the lower-bit consoles, with great titles like Super Metroid, Super Mario RPG, Mario Kart, Mario World, Mario All-Stars, Link to the Past, MKs, Street Fighters, Final Fantasies, NBA Jam TE, Castlevanias, better sounding ports as opposed to the scratchy audio of the Genesis (although I love the Genesis). Nintendo usually comes in first for me, with the exception of the Wii...

End my opinion.

[Gentlegamer]

By the way, my choice, "Nintendo NES," is listed incorrectly.

It's not "Nintendo Nintendo Entertainment System."

Ironically, Sega Master System is listed correctly, not as "Sega SMS."

[BydoEmpire]

I don't think you can just use the good/bad game ratio - if a system has 200 great games and 200 real stinkers, would you consider that system to have a worse library than a console that has 10 great games and 8 crap games? "Best library" for me is largely weighted towards quantity of good games and variety of games.

1. Tough call for me, but I have to go with the Genesis. It didn't have the Nintendo 1st party games, but it had broader 3rd party support - lots of Amiga ports, quality 1st party Sega stuff, some more "out there" 3rd party titles like Warsong and General Chaos. Maybe not as many truly great games, but more good games, imho. Every genre was well-represented, and if you count add-ons like the Sega CD and Power Base Converter it gets better.
2. The SNES would be second for me - tons of very high-quality games.
3. The Genny and SNES have almost everything the NES had, only more and better. I like the NES, but it's 3rd.
4. I love the 2600, but the variety isn't there and the 16 bit consoles did have some classic gaming-style compilations which offered that type of gameplay. Even the NES had Galaga, Pac Man, DK, Popeye, etc - and pretty solid versions, etoo.
5. I also love the Master System personally, but the library just isn't big or diverse enough.

[Nirvana]

I'd go with the SNES. I grew up playing it, and here are some of my favorite games I love playing.

Mega Man X
Super Street Fighter II
Castlevania IV
NBA Jam Tournament Edition
Final Fantasy VI (I have the III cartridge)
Final Fight 3

And that's just at the top of my head. Makes me almost tear up thinking about all the games I'd play as a child.

[RASK1904]

They all have great libraries. You could argue which is better till the cows come home. I started with Nes becuase thats what I loved as a kid. Then came Genesis which I also had as a kid. Then Snes, PS1, 2600, Dreamcast, N64 ect.,ect,. one thing I will say I think the 64 has the weakest. I only keep like 6 games. The rest gots ta go!

I can tell you the easiest to find seem to be Genesis. Then 64 then ps1. The 64 and PS1 because the are more recent.