Besides Super Mario World and Super Mario All Stars the Super Nintendo had a bunch of platform that does not get talked about as much as they should. We had games like Aero the Acrobat, Sparkster, Yoshi’s Island, Kirby Super Star, Actraiser, the Mega Man X series and more. While the Sega Genesis had its fair share of platform titles such as the Sonic the Hedgehog series, Ristar, Altered Beast, Strider and Revenge of the Shinobi the SNES arguably had better graphics and sprites.

In terms of gameplay many people can argue that the Sega Genesis was better because it was fast paced compared to most SNES platform titles probably with the exception of the Mega Man X games.   A gamers opinion on which console produced better platform games depends on whether or not the were fanboys of the Super Nintendo or the Sega Genesis.

While the Sega Genesis did have impressive visual effects during the 16 bit era the SNES had some interesting features in their games as well.  In games like Super Castlevania IV and Yoshi’s Island player got to witness special features for the SNES such as Mode 7.  16 bit titles that featured Mode 7 were special because it would make people think twice on which system had better video games during console wars between Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. In terms of which console had better platform games it usually comes down to which games certain players like more and what features stand them more.