{"id":7197,"date":"2017-03-06T14:55:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T14:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=7197"},"modified":"2024-03-14T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T11:44:53","slug":"the-10-best-nintendo-games-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/03\/06\/the-10-best-nintendo-games-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 best Nintendo games ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it\u2019s official: the Nintendo Switch is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>We should never have doubted Nintendo, to be honest, because they have a rich history of turning out innovative, amazing consoles and releasing even more innovative and amazing games too.<\/p>\n<p>In honour of the Switch, here are our 10 favourite Nintendo games ever. Disagree? Share your faves in the comments!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0mOsQ8GJJHc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Super Metroid<\/h4>\n<p><i>Metroid<\/i> is such an influential game that it inspired its own genre (along with <i>Castlevania<\/i>): <i>Metroidvania<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Super Metroid <\/i>follows Samus Aran as she journeys into the depths of a distant planet to find a Metroid stolen by Space Pirates. Your mission is to traverse the planet\u2019s complex tunnels using cool power ups, kill Space Pirates and retrieve the Metroid.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a proper old school adventure game, offering you little in the way of direction while rewarding you for using your own intuition and memory. It\u2019s hands down one of the best 2D platformers ever.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-PauPKUTyVw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Super Mario Kart<\/h4>\n<p>To be honest, you can take this as a recommendation for any <i>Mario Kart<\/i> game as they all follow the same basic formula: you pick a character and hare round a series of tracks (including the hair-pullingly difficult Rainbow Road) while launching weapons like bananas and red flippin\u2019 shells at other players.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pretty simple idea but Nintendo have got it down to a fine art. There have been many, many imitators but few have even got close to the quality of <i>Mario Kart<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mario Kart<\/i> is simply one of the best multiplayer games ever, with the power to make or break friendships and entertain both hardcore gamers and people who\u2019ve never picked up a controller before.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/mario-kart-8\"><strong>Buy <em>Mario Kart 8<\/em> on the musicMagpie Store<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/nintendomariokartw-ba83880b-8873-484d-a9ad-69d55c32ed36\"><strong>Buy\u00a0<em>Mario Kart Wii\u00a0<\/em>on the musicMagpie Store<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SbHL8-XkXMA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Donkey Kong Country<\/h4>\n<p>If you need any more convincing that Nintendo are the kings of platform games, here it is.<\/p>\n<p><i>Donkey Kong Country<\/i> is forty perfectly designed levels of pure platforming bliss. You play as either DK or his nephew Diddy, and your goal is to recover the Kong family\u2019s bananas from the evil Kremlins.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the game was notable for its incredible 3D rendered graphics, which pushed the SNES to the limits of its capabilities. Today, the graphics are less impressive but the gameplay more than stands the test of time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_iybdJCo78Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Pok\u00e9mon Red &amp; Blue<\/h4>\n<p>The game that spawned a full on cultural movement, <i>Pokemon <\/i> is a delightfully simple game.<\/p>\n<p>You play as a young man who leaves home (and his poor mum) to pursue his dream of becoming a Pokemon master, a profession that involves capturing wild animals in small balls and making them fight against each other.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019d probably be illegal in real life but it\u2019s a lot of fun in the game. Half of <em>Pokemon\u00a0<\/em>involves exploring a <i>Zelda<\/i>-like world, searching for Pokemon and training up your beasties so they\u2019re ready to destroy whichever chump gets in your way next, while the other half involves said destruction in the form of turn-based battles.<\/p>\n<p>Using a link cable, you could humiliate your friends and their pitiful Pokemon, asserting your dominance as the local Pokemon master\u201d\u00a6 until you played a dirty cheater who used a password to get infinite Rare Candy\u00a0and now has an indestructible Mewtwo in their Pokedex. Not that I\u2019m bitter or anything.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Fk5sRwbEWI?si=JsvXL014G0xS5n9z\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Super Mario 64<\/h4>\n<p>What can be said about <i>Super Mario 64<\/i> that hasn\u2019t been said before? It literally changed video games forever, with its masterful level design and gameplay inspiring developers to this day.<\/p>\n<p><i>Mario 64<\/i> was everyone\u2019s favourite plumber\u2019s first 3D adventure, catapulting him into an wonderfully designed world that retained all of the Mario tropes we know and love &#8211; the blocks, the Goombas, saving the Princess again \u201d\u201c but updated them for a new generation.<\/p>\n<p>It is undoubtedly one of the best games ever made.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_NElFLzgdUs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time<\/h4>\n<p><i>Ocarina of Time<\/i> is a genuine contender for the best game of all time, setting the template for the action RPG genre and inspiring legions of games to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Like <i>Mario 64<\/i>, <i>Ocarina<\/i> took the basics of the 2D <i>Zelda<\/i> series and updated them in stunning fashion. Hyrule, previously a series of bird&#8217;s-eye-view screens, became a sprawling kingdom full of diverse regions to explore and innovative, ingenious dungeons to conquer.<\/p>\n<p>The time-travelling mechanic was unlike anything else at the time either, allowing players to switch between a youthful Link living in a prosperous Hyrule and an older Link inhabiting a post-apocalyptic kingdom inhabited by zombies.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve never played this game, hunt it down immediately.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xahdDqCxCoU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Pikmin<\/h4>\n<p><i>Pikmin <\/i> isn\u2019t as renowned as other Nintendo series, possibly because the first game came out on the hugely underrated Gamecube, but it\u2019s up there with the best.<\/p>\n<p>In the first game, you play as Captain Olimar, a space explorer who has crash landed on a mysterious planet. His ship destroyed, Olimar relies on the kindness of a small race of space vegetables named Pikmin to put it back together again.<\/p>\n<p>Finding the parts to fix Olimar&#8217;s ship requires clever thinking and forward planning, with the Pikmin having to overcome enemies and traverse hostile environments to return to the ship. Honestly, there\u2019s nothing more heartbreaking than finding a ship piece, having your Pikmin carry it home and then watching them get eaten by a hungry giant bug (although you can always grow more).<\/p>\n<p>As one of the most inventive games of the past 20 years, it deserves a lot more love than it gets. Hopefully Nintendo will release a fourth game on the Switch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/pikmin-3\"><strong>Buy\u00a0<em>Pikmin 3\u00a0<\/em>on the musicMagpie Store<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O0O173xIuO0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Super Smash Bros Melee<\/h4>\n<p>Nintendo would never make something as brutal as a proper fighting game, but <i>Super Smash Bros<\/i> is the next best thing; Nintendo\u2019s legions of characters having bloodless, often hilarious and always entertaining scraps with the focus on fun rather than pain.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, <i>Smash \u00a0Bros <\/i> is <b>intense<\/b>. Four players duke it out on a series of stages, with the goal to be the last man standing by either beating the living daylights out of your pals with punches, kicks and special moves (i.e. FALCON PUNCH!) or knocking them off the edge of the stage into sweet oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fast and furious; easy to pick up but difficult to master. There are a huge selection of characters too, each with their own unique moves and skills. Bagsy Captain Falcon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/nintendo-selects-super-smash-bros-bra\"><strong>Buy\u00a0<em>Super Smash Bros. Brawl\u00a0<\/em>on the musicMagpie Store<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rmN8DHZYNCg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Super Mario Galaxy<\/h4>\n<p>Released for the Wii, <i>Super Mario Galaxy<\/i> was only the third 3D Mario platformer after <i>64<\/i> and <i>Sunshine<\/i>. The wait was well worth it though.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Mario heads to space to save the galaxy from Bowser and, of course, save Princess Peach (seriously, someone get her a full time security team).<\/p>\n<p>Sending a beloved character or series to space is usually a sign that the team behind it are running out of ideas, but not in this case. <i>Galaxy<\/i> uses gravity in plenty of ingenious and wonderful ways, adding an enthralling and hugely entertaining twist to the classic <i>Mario<\/i> formula.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, <i>Super Mario Galaxy<\/i> won a bunch of Game of the Year awards and is widely regarded as one of Nintendo\u2019s finest games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.musicmagpie.co.uk\/products\/super-mario-galaxy-wii\"><strong>Buy\u00a0<em>Super Mario Galaxy\u00a0<\/em>on the musicMagpie Store<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zw47_q9wbBE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/h4>\n<p><i>Breath of the Wild <\/i> was first unveiled at E3 2014 in a jaw-dropping trailer. However, numerous delays and worries about the underperforming Wii U led more than a few people to worry that it may be the first dud in the <i>Zelda <\/i> series (not including those weird ones for the Philips CD-i).<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Nintendo made us look foolish for ever doubting them. <i>Breath of the Wild<\/i> totally reinvents the <i>Zelda<\/i> template, casting Link in a huge open-world adventure inspired by the likes of <i>Skyrim<\/i> and <i>The Witcher<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t any old open world though. Nintendo have crafted the new Hyrule to perfection, making every inch feel essential to the game rather than filler to keep you busy.<\/p>\n<p>You also get total freedom to explore it. You\u2019re given most of the equipment you need from the start, while Link\u2019s climbing abilities mean you can go pretty much anywhere you want.<\/p>\n<p>With near perfect reviews from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2017-03-02-the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-review_7\">Eurogamer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.ign.com\/articles\/2017\/03\/02\/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-review\">IGN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/the-legend-of-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-the-kotaku-rev-1792885174\">Kotaku<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-review\/\">GamesRadar<\/a>, <i>Breath of the Wild<\/i> is destined to go down as one of Nintendo\u2019s finest creations.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thinking of upgrading to the Nintendo Switch? <a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/sell-tech\/trade-in-consoles\/\">Sell your games console<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/entertainment\/trade-in-games\/\">video games<\/a> with musicMagpie today! 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