All SNES Vs N64 Games Compared Side By Side
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2024
- This is a compilation of every game to come out on the SNES/Super Famicom that also got a release on the N64.
0:00 - FIFA: Road To World Cup 98
0:35 - Itoi Shigesato No Bass Tsuri No. 1
1:18 - Jeopardy!
2:01 - Monopoly
2:44 - Ms. Pac-Man
3:23 - NBA Hangtime
4:01 - SimCity 2000
4:46 - Space Invaders
5:30 - Super Bowling
6:01 - Wheel Of Fortune
6:45 - Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits - Defender
7:05 - Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits - Joust
7:25 - Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits - Robotron: 2084
7:45 - Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits - Sinistar - เกม
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Awesome seeing the comparisons! I feel like next time someone wants to talk about current-gen (PS4 to PS5, X1 to XSX) being “next-gen leaps”, they need to look at this. This was when we saw generational leaps! FIFA 98 alone went from 2D to 3D lol. Great video again!
Thank you so much! Haha I feel like an old man saying this but kids these days won't understand the insane leap we got to witness from the 4th to 5th generation.
@@sluttyboy69 Oh absolutely. For the time it was mindblowing to see the transition from 2D to 3D but that generation of games arguably aged worse than any other generation.
Badass concept for a video and I didn't even know that there were games that came out on both the SNES and the 64
Thanks for watching! I was pretty surprised too about these crossovers, when the N64 came out it seemed like everything they were doing for older series were sequels rather than ports. I swear like 80% of the library is "Game Name 64" or "Game Name 2000".
Just about every SNES version has aged significantly better lol
Lol yep. At the time those 64 games were so cool but good god those blurry visuals look terrible compared to the sharp SNES games.
This.... The N64 games aged horribly lol!
@@mikec3260 Lol like milk
In my opinion PlayStation aged better, doesn't have the AA filter, has incredibly sharp image quality with S video, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy the Nintendo 64, warts and all!
Awesome Comparisons Bill! Some of them I'd go with the SNES surprisingly.
Thank you! Yeah I would too, a lot of those N64 games aged terribly. But to make it more even you could always smear Vaseline on your computer screen over the SNES side so they're just as blurry lol
Wow interesting comparisons! Look at you going all pro with chapters!
I need to give SNES Monopoly for the win, the sluggish movement of 3d characters and dice rolling kill it for me.
I never heard of Sim City 2000 on N64, I bet the load times were amazing compared to the Play Station disc version! The higher res compared to SNES is a win! Loved that game!
Nicely done !
Lol I'm going semi-pro these days, or at least I'm attempting to. Ugh Monopoly is so mediocre on the N64 and that interlacing is pretty bad. SimCity 2000 was only released in Japan on the N64 so even though it looks cool and the load times are non-existent it's pretty much impossible to play unless you speak Japanese. I think the N64DD version has a translation but I'm not sure if this one does yet.
@@RetroComparisons Sim City 2000 had some pretty bad load times on the Saturn too...and some poor performance too. I think the Saturn version doesn't run in an interlaced resolution so is a bit less soft, but man does it chug instead of being fairly smooth running here on the 64. If you have on the real-time rotation and scaling options and zoomed all of the way out and tried to rotate with any decently sized city, it was painful.
Yeah SimCity had brutal load times, I dumped a lot of summer hours on it lol!
I need to watch more of the n64 version, the game needed to be on a cart for faster loading.
Hey Semi Pro helped me today, I clicked on the times when it was like whoa the N64 sucked to skip! lol the only time I have done that tho.
@@shotgunl Now I'm even more curious about that game. I hope the Fenrir helps a bit with loading times but it will probably still be brutal.
@@mikec3260 Haha some of those deserve to be skipped.
At the time I was so enamored with 3D graphics that I thought N64 games looked amazing, but man have they not aged anywhere near as well as the clean pixel art you got on the SNES. So many N64 games just come off as charmless and barren now, with muddy textures and fog that makes every game look like it takes place at a Cheech and Chong concert.
Lots of great innovations happened on the N64 and I'll always treasure my memories with it, but I'd take the SNES library over it ANY day.
This is so true, many games did not age well, the game play is fun. I will admit the N64 is my least favorite system. There are only a couple of games I enjoyed owning.
The 16bit pixel graphics have aged well and still quite enjoyable today.
Lol! A Cheech and Chong concert is my new favorite way to describe the looks of these games. I mean back then going from the SNES to the N64 was like going from VHS to DVD, except the N64 aged like VHS tapes.
Despite its looks my friends and I still have N64 nights where we play No Mercy, Perfect Dark, Smash, etc but overall the SNES library is superior with countless amazing games.
@@RetroComparisons Lol that is a great way to explain it!! lol
Mario 64 I go back to often as it was a great challenge. I do play Star Fox 64 but thats about it. I go back to SNES games often and wish I had my collection!
@@mikec3260 There's like an overwhelming amount of great games on the SNES and and underwhelming amount of time to play them.
@@RetroComparisons Fact! lol
More I watch N64 games, more they suck. SNES wins! Thanks again for the video
Lol! A lot of these games in particular did not age well at all. Thanks for watching!
Another great console vs console full comparison, Bill. I have to admit that aside from absolutely great NBA Hangtime port and Namco Museum 64, both of which I own and Williams Arcades Greatest Hits-which I've played on the 64 but don't own (though I have owned the Genesis version since back then)-I haven't played any of the N64 versions of these. I never even thought about Fifa having a '98 port on the SNES, though I know the Genesis had a version since I believe you covered it before. I *do* recall the SNES version of '97 being really poor performing vs the Genesis version, but '98 here seams a bit better in that regard.
I think overall, in the games in this comparison, outside of the 80s compilations, Hangtime, and Sim City 2000, the SNES comes out as still looking more charming compared to the N64's less well-aged graphics. The only console port of Sim City 2000 that I've played is the Saturn version (I played the PC version a number of times at my cousin's along with Sim Copter inside our levels...uggg, that ran *very* poorly on his PC), but I feel the N64 version here runs a lot more smoothly than the Saturn version. I haven't played Sim City 2000 on the Saturn in probably 10+ years though, so it's not very fresh in my mind ha.
I think you covered them early on in seasons I should go back and watch, but since it now shows up now finally again, what are your thoughts on NBA Hangtime on the 16-bit consoles? I've felt since the time I first got NBA Hangtime on the Genesis that Funcom did a much better job of recreating the arcade version of NBA Hangtime on the Genesis and SNES than Iguana did with the NBA Jam ports. Jam TE on 32X is quite a good effort (from Steve Snake, if I recall correctly, creator of the Kega Fusion emulator), but Jam and Jam TE are pretty far away from the arcade originals' quality. Mind you, I had and have tons of fun with Jam and Jam TE on the Genesis and SNES, but the Hangtime ports on the 16-bit systems just come so much closer to the arcade original. I know there's more love for Jam and TE out there than Hangtime, but I think that's because by the time Hangtime came out there just wasn't the same kind of demand for this type of game (and having lost the Jam name license to Acclaim hurt Midway here). However, I love it, and it's one of my favorite games on the Genesis, SNES, N64, and PSX. The N64 version is amazing and is the best of the console ports IMO, but I like them all. They leaps and bounds better than any of the N64-era NBA Jam games from Acclaim. I'm just curious what you think of the 16-bit ports versus the Jam ports.
Also, a bit off, but I quite like the 16-bit versions of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy (and Deluxe and Sports versions) on the SNES and Genesis; however, for some reason I get a real kick out of the FMV-ish digitized versions on the Sega CD from Sony. They are just almost perfect for the system haha.
Thanks as always for your support!! I totally agree, the SNES does come out looking better for a majority of these. The SNES is kind of like a horror or sci-fi movie from the 90s where they knew that practical effects were the way to go since CGI wasn't there yet and as a result it aged beautifully. On the other hand the N64 is akin to overused CGI in the early 2000s for movies like The Scorpion King where they thought it looked amazing but years later is laughable.
I'm yet to try that Saturn port of SimCity 2000 but I do need to play that soon for a video that I want to do this year. The 64 version did look quite good but since it wasn't translated I couldn't do too much other than blindly pick random things to get the footage.
Oh boy, Hangtime is a tough one for me. Objectively it's easily the best of the three but I didn't play it on a home console until many years later. I played the Genesis versions of the original, TE as well as the 32X TE port for countless hours as a kid and a ton more as an adult. From a personal and very biased standpoint I'd probably pick the original as my favorite but I can almost guarantee that had I seen those games for the first time in 2022 that I'd go with the 16 bit version of Hangtime. And don't get me started on those Acclaim NBA Jam games on the N64. I played one for the first time on Eric's channel and it was an abomination.
I actually love those 16 bit Wheel Of Fortune & Jeopardy games too. It sounds weird but there's something comforting about those.
Both are cool 😎
The beginning of the 3D era was horrible (N64 PS1 Saturn), games for Nes, SNES and Genesis were masterpiece.
They were so cool at the time but there are a ton of games that did not hold up.
Saturn had a lot more 2D games, and aged best...something like Nights Into Dreams is still good now.
Okay, so I was expecting an exciting showdown of polished sprites vs. raw, experimental polygons and a lot of fog.
And that's exactly what the fishing game offered me.
Instead what I mostly got was questionable pixel art vs. dodgy digitization. And the real battle for hearts and minds coming from the Atari age.
Still, kudos to FIFA for demonstrating both that the N64's filter looked hideous, and that it deserved more texture RAM. The SNES needed all the help it could get in that comparison, because the N64 completely blows it out of the water in animation. Especially since anyone who really cared about the best sports sims probably enjoyed them on the Genesis, instead.
In the end, the real surprise was watchig the N64 to destroy the SNES in Robotron 2084. The low resolution screen crunch really explains a lot about that particular port.
And to see the SNES win best graphics of the show through a bowling game?
I'll bet there's never again a competition this dull and disappointing, or, at the very same time, this weird and exciting,
With all that said, the games I most wanted to see compared didn't show - Trilogy's more of an expansion pack, rather than an entirely separate release from Ultimate. (Instead, you included two completely different games named Space Invaders...c'mon. Can I look forward to seeing Castlevania vs. Castlevania in an N64 vs. NES showdown? ; p)
Well to be fair Castlevania on the 64 is clearly different from the NES Castlevania while Space Invaders is at least similar so that's a bit of apples and oranges. Things like this are not always clear-cut and even sites like Giantbomb consider it a port even if that's highly questionable. You know if I didn't put it on there that there would be 10 comments of "You left out Space Invaders" and "Where's Space Invaders?" so basically I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. Mortal Kombat Trilogy on the other hand is an oddity in the sense that it's an expansion pack of UMK3, but UMK3 itself is basically an expansion pack of MK3 so I don't know where the line is drawn on that. If that's the case then I need to compare Trilogy to both 3 and Ultimate 3.
I already knew this but after comparing these two consoles it cemented how badly the 64 has aged. That blurriness is hideous but if you turn it off through gameshark codes and the UltraHDMI the games look like a bad PS1 game so either way they look terrible. I hear all of the time that it looks good on a CRT but I've seen it on multiple CRTs in the past year and it doesn't look much better.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that Robotron 2084 difference. Other games on there like Defender were super close but that was quite the change. And Super Bowling looks amazing on the SNES but I'd still rather have it on the N64. That reason being that the cart is worth a small fortune these days.
@@RetroComparisons
True story: my mom's first reaction to seeing No Mercy in action was to worry about what was wrong with my television.
She couldn't imagine the graphics being that bad, on purpose.
My mom has also only played one game in her life - Pac-Man. But she bought us an Atari 2600. We even owned a very questionable wrestling game for it, which earned far more love than it deserved.
Only the best wrestling game on the N64 struck her as being wrong, somehow.
It really made me think about the difference between gamers and the general public.
With that said, I think the N64's graphics are really underrated. I could lose myself in Majora's, in a way I couldn't do in games where the textures were warping all over the place, and random pixels could seemingly mutilate someone's face in new and exciting ways, while Squall was being told how hot he was.
Yeah, it's all aged horribly, and few knew what they were doing with it in the first place, but at the time? It was a welcome alternative. That version of Majora's Mask is still one of my favorite games of all time. And games like Wave Race have a warm and inviting simplicity that I wish more games had learned from.
Plus, Paper Mario and Wonder Project J2.
Once you get away from attempting realism, the system has a lot to offer.
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Lol I think I had that same 2600 wrestling game, assuming it was the same one, and I played it so much more than it deserved to be played. Yeah No Mercy looked pretty bad even for its time but like with so many other N64 games they were so damn fun that it didn't matter plus I don't know any kid back then who though the graphics sucked. It's obviously different in hindsight now for anyone who grew up with it and it probably has an even worse reputation for anyone who's first system was a PS2 or later. It's just unfortunate that with scart cables the Genesis & SNES clean up so nice and look crisp whereas the 64 looks blurry as hell and the PS1 can look like a pixelated mess. Having said that, the N64 has a special place in my heart and while I can be objective with it I'll always defend it as a great console.
@@RetroComparisons
Did that Atari wrestling game, by chance, feature the gripping rivalry between Big Chief and Skinhead - with centuries of build to that intergenerational confrontation? (I'm sure it was tastefully handled in the PPV ads.)
Or Skinhead's partner, the out of control Mad Dog vs. the mysterious and playfully sadistic Mr. Mean? (Really, the stories just wrote themselves.)
And absolutely nobody else on the roster at all?
Did the action feature everyone spamming single frame moves at blinding Dragon Ball Z like speed, in matches that lasted just seconds? Was half the fun finding the bugs they didn't have the time to squash? (At least, it was in the 7800 version?)
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Lol yes!! That was the one. I played as Skinhead because he reminded me The Warlord. But man looking at this now all I can say is yikes! They may has well had Andrew Jackson go over in a squash match.
I just watched some footage and man that game looks horrible but it was so much fun when I was 5. It may have only been a 4 person roster but Rage In The Cage had a 20 person roster and it still sucked so I guess it wouldn't have mattered.
Can you do gameboy Avance vs Super Nintendo or nes vs gameboy advance
Yes indeed! It may be a little while but that's on my list of videos to work on. There's a ton of crossover between the SNES and the GBA so that will be a large project. I haven't finished researching it yet but so far I've found 65 games that are on both systems.
Why is Mrs Pac-Man on SNES in both 1994 and 1996?
The one from 96 is its own standalone release while the one from 94 is an unlockable version from Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures.
Snes was the better console. I wasn't a big n64. Just my opinion. I wished I liked it but the games didn't age well.
I love the N64 and it will always hold a special place in my heart but there's no denying that the SNES had the larger and arguably better library and aged like fine wine while most N64 titles aged like milk. Not to mention that the N64 at best could output S Video natively while the SNES could output RGB with a Scart connection.
N64 has such a blurry filter it barely takes advantage of S video, while SNES looks way sharper. Banjo Kazooie and other Rareware games tend to look like the blur filter was reduced but otherwise it benefits far less.
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MK3 ou UM3 do SNES com o MKT do N64.
snes the best .
Those games pac man,space invaders and greatest arcade hits games were just some freaking damn cheap ass cash grabbing games with no intention of utelizing the hardware performances and they were also not intended to drive huge sales of those systems, and fifa 98 on snes was just a cheap ass reskin of fifa 95 with new players and cheap ass synthesis uninspirated music (why not that sonf of blur instead?)
And those tv program games whether it’s weekend millionairs or wheel of fortune etc,,, shouldn’t belong on game consoles at all but should be played in real life or on a card board game with friends,what a waste👎
It's a shame we didn't get a better overlap between these consoles. NBA Hangtime is really the only one that is a true one to one port.
@@RetroComparisons next i hope to see a gameboy/color vs N64 games video,games such as mission impossible & turok etc,,,😁
@@johneygd That would be very interesting to see. I'm kind of fascinated by de-make games like that.
Snes games are way better than N64 games
For the most part SNES games aged like fine wine and N64 aged like milk, at least in terms of visuals.
@@RetroComparisons except for only 3 games Super mario 64 Ocarina of time and Majora's mask
@@Darkscenes-jp4ge True, those do still look good.
@@RetroComparisons For the SNES games people still play today are Chrono trigger Zelda a link to the past Final fantasy earth bound super mario world and the original star fox was dead but came back to life with the release of Star fox 2