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?
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 III
- 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 III
- Yozo Sakagami (Namco Bandai) - Sim City
- Yusuke Tomizawa (Namco Bandai) - Cybernator
- Katsuhiro Harada (Namco Bandai) - Super Momotaro Dentetsu II
- 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 (Marvelous) - ActRaiser
- Yoshifumi Hashimoto (Marvelous) - 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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