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All of my favorite games were on the greatest system ever, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. And they were all RPGs as well. Let's see

1. Final Fantasy II (IV, in Japan)



This game is EPIC. Through the course of the 40 or so hours it takes to finish this game (okay maybe less than that, but i take the time to talk to every single charcter you can) villages are destroyed, lives are ruined, love is lost, found, lost, and found again, and you even go to the moon. THE FUCKING MOON. It completely blew Final Fantasy I out of the water. I mean, the old one was alrite, but that game was like the first hit off a freshly rolled J. Final Fantasy II was like spending a week in a jacuzzi full of LSD.


2. Earthbound (also known as Mother II)



It took me awhile to warm up to this game, but now its one of my favorites. It's sorta like Final Fantasy, except you can actually see your enemies before you fight them, which makes it kind of like The Legend of Zelda. But then the fighting scenes are like the ones in Dragon Warrior. And then the graphics look like something made with Mario Paint. But trust me, this game is fun as hell. It's the little things, you know? Like how when you're walking around, if you walk to the right spots in the game, this guy will come down from the sky to take your picture. Which seems dumb and even annoying at first, but then you realize that, once you beat the game, all those pictures show up as the credits roll by. And then you want to play the game all the way through again just to find all the photo spots. Or like how it asks you what your favorite foods and things are before you start playing for the first time. I put "Adobo", not knowing that later on in the game, when you get homesick, all you have to do is go home for some adobo. Things that mean absolutely nothing to the game itself, but then again, it means everything. No wonder the game has such a huge cult following. When a genuine Earthbound Zero prototype cartridge (basically Mother I translated) for the NES showed up online, it went for quite a bit on eBay, and someone even paid the winner of that auction to make a ROM file version of it to put online. People were clamoring for Earthbound II, and I think one almost came out for Nintendo 64, but it never happend. But now it looks like its coming out for Gameboy Advance, and you besta believe I will cop that.

Close runner-ups (all on the SNES as well):

Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
SimCity
Super Metroid (regarded by quite a few people as one of the best games of all time)
Street Fighter 2 Turbo (down R up L Y B = TEN STAR MODE!!!! insanity ensues.)
Chrono Trigger (yeah i know RPG motherfuckers think this game pw0ns all, but its not as good as its predecessor....)
Secret of Mana

Damn, this is making me want to pull my SNES out of the closet...