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Famitsu Readers List Top 50 Nintendo Games

02.01.2012

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The readers of established Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu have listed their top 50 Nintendo games of all time. As you'd expect, there's a lot of Zelda and Mario in there, but were there any surprises? Take a look at the full list below.

1. Super Mario Bros. NES
2. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time N64
3. Super Mario 64 N64
4. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past SNES
5. Mother 2 SNES
6. Xenoblade Wii
7. Legend of Zelda NES
8. Super Mario RPG SNES
9. Smash Bros. Melee GC
10. Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Wii
11. Fire Emblem - Seisen no Keifu SNES
12. Famicom Mukashi-banashi Famicom-DiscDrive
13. Super Mario Kart SNES
14. Famicom Tantei Club Part II Famicom-DiscDrive
15. Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker GC
16. Fire Emblem - Monsho no Nazo SNES
17. Legend of Zelda - Links Awakening GB
18. Super Mario World SNES
19. Super Mario Sunshine GC
20. Smash Bros. Brawl Wii
21. Donkey Kong Country SNES
22. Ice Climber NES
23. Mother NES
24. F-ZERO SNES
25. Kirby Super Star SNES
26. Mario Kart Wii Wii
27. Mario Kart 64 N64
28. Pokemon Red/Blue/Green/Pikachu GB
29. Super Mario Bros. 3 NES
30. Super Mario Galaxy Wii
31. Star Fox SNES
32. Magical Vacation GBA
33. Kirbys Air Ride GC
34. Golf NES
35. Joy Mech Fight NES
36. Donkey Kong Country 2 SNES
37. Super Mario 64 DS DS
38. Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess Wii
39. Legend of Zelda - Majoras Mask N64
40. Animal Crossing: Wild World DS
41. Donkey Kong NES
42. Smash Bros. N64
42. Volley Ball Famicom-DiscDrive
44. Banjo-Tooie N64
45. Baseball NES
46. Famicom Tantei Club Famicom-DiscDrive
47. Fire Emblem: Ankoku Ryū to Hikari no Tsurugi NES
48. Metroid Famicom-DiscDrive
48. Metroid II - Return of Samus GB
50. Super Mario: Yoshis Island SNES

What do our Cubed3 readers think of the list? What are your top Nintendo games of all time?

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Flynnie 02.01.2012#1

How on earth is Metroid II in there and none of the sublime Prime games are not. Let alone Zero Mission or Fusion.

Good to see Fire Emblem is well respected but a bit miffed not to see games like Starfox 64 not in there but some oldie NES games in there...

Also a bit strange how Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Bros 3 are below Sunshine...not that i didn't like Sunshine, i was a big supporter, its just that i would have put both of these above that!

Interesting to see that Wind Waker has trumped both Majoras Mask and Twilight Princess. I do think its a fine game but i always thought many received it negatively.

Final observation is that there is only one DS game in the whole mix and that was the remake of Super Mario 64 DS! What's up with that!

Marzeee 02.01.2012#2

Lolwut.

Super Mario 64 DS? Golf (NES)!? Baseball (NES)!!?... Once again my mind explodes at the thought of how anyone could find these games good.

Azuardo 02.01.2012#3

I gotta be honest, I was surprised by a lot of it. I noticed Metroid 2 above all all other games in the series, plus the fact that Skyward Sword is right up there, despite selling so poorly. Wind Waker absolutely deserves to be up there.

I love that Super Mario World, Star Fox and both DK Country games get their deserved recognition, but disappointed by Yoshi's Island being so low.

Having recently played Mother 2 (Earthbound) this year, I can most definitely say it deserves its high spot. Those that think it doesn't simply haven't played it (or really hate RPGs!).

Edit: Marzy, I can only think a lot of who voted were older readers, which makes sense given the amount of NES/SNES/GB games in there. Games we started out with might not be looked upon as all that by newcomers of today either. Just how you probably think little of those NES games. Back when NES came out, they must have felt like the best games in the world.

( Edited 02.01.2012 16:46 by Azuardo )

bornforthis43 02.01.2012#4

Xenoblade Wii as the 6th best Nintendo game of all time?!?!?!

iwilly (guest) 02.01.2012#5

where's number 20?

Azuardo 02.01.2012#6

iwilly (guest) said:
where's number 20?

Fixed ;]

Flynnie 02.01.2012#7

It is a little inconsistent with that in mind, how did Skyward Sword set such an impression already?

I am quite surprised that Pikmin didn't get in there at all? Not that i am a fan to be fair.

No Super Mario Galaxy 2, Mario Kart Super Circuit, Luigi's Mansion? Sin and Punishment? Wii Sports?

Only one generation of Pokemon games? Were Silver/Gold not that great in their eyes then!

If Banjo Tooie can be in there then why can't Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Conkers BFD?

What a strange bunch of people!

I do feel like this list is fairly lacking in a few spots, i just can't put my finger on what games should be in there

( Edited 02.01.2012 18:36 by Flynnie )

Azuardo 02.01.2012#8

Japan never took to FPS games, so unlikely to ever see Goldeneye or Perfect Dark in there. Don't know how they would have taken Conker either. I wouldn't have expected Luigi or Wii Sports to get in there tbh, nor S&P. The latter was well-received there though, wasn't it?

jesusraz 02.01.2012#9

Wasn't the poll only done over the period of a week or something? So basically it meant that readers one week were told about the poll and the following week's issue had the results?

That may go some way to explaining the odd results...

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Azuardo 02.01.2012#10

jesusraz said:
Wasn't the poll only done over the period of a week or something? So basically it meant that readers one week were told about the poll and the following week's issue had the results?
That may go some way to explaining the odd results...

There had to be something stupid like that behind it. That's pretty ridiculous then.