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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