The Super Nintendo Entertainment System has one of the finest game catalogs of any console ever released, and there's a strong selection of 77 games available on Nintendo Classics as part of Nintendo Switch Online. Sadly, most of the console's great third-party games aren't represented; you won't find Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 6, or Street Fighter 2 Turbo on the service.

But it doesn't really matter, because you will, of course, find many of Nintendo's own games — and these represent an incredible golden age for the studio, when Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka's teams were pumping out masterpiece after masterpiece. It's one of the best runs any game developer has ever had, a time of perfection between the innovation of the NES before and the bold leap into 3D with the N64 that came after.

Here are the 10 best SNES games you can play on Nintendo Classics.

Nintendo loves to put together oddball game-and-accessory bundles, and in 1992 it sold a mouse for the SNES with this delightful art creation suite. There are funny minigames, brilliant tunes, authentic Nintendo sprites to use, as well as drawing, animation, and music creation suites. You'll need a USB mouse to play it on Switch, but Switch 2 owners can use the Joy-Con 2 in mouse mode.

Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai's restless imagination and love of remixes and mash-ups can be found as far back as this barmy 1996 anthology platformer. Kirby Super Star is a compilation of compressed ideas and stories expressed through the medium of the ability-copying pink blob: a racing game, a Metroidvania, a boss rush, scrolling shmup levels, and various rule variations on the classic platformer.

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