PLEASE HELP! I'm new to retro gaming! NES or SNES?

[SwooshBear]

These guys are right about SNES being more accessible. It has some of gaming's best games. Mario World, Yoshi's Island, Final Fantasy VI, Metroid Prime, Chrono Trigger....

Metroid prime for snes? That would be sick. Anyway, snes is the way to go. Ack nailed every point I was gonna say lol

If you're nice, I'd be willing for part with my copy for a few hundred

Haha, I'm not interested, I'm just wonderng how metroid PRIME could be on SNES

[the King]

Plus IMO you need to play the first 3 Mario Bros games before you go to Mario World, same with Zelda, Metroid, etc.

That's a good point.

But you can do that with the Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World cart for Mario Bros. Admittedly though, there's no way to my knowledge to play the original Zelda and Metroid on a SNES, though you could play Metroid II via the Super Game Boy.

Like you said, it can be done with the Mario games, but not with Zelda, Metroid, Punch-Out, Kirby, MegaMan or Final Fantasy, heck even Donkey Kong. And in the OP's first post he mentioned Zelda. I think you have to start with the original, you can't play a Link to the Past and then go to The Legend of Zelda. I don't look at this as only having a SNES or a NES. It's a where to start. I say you start with the NES and then move up the SNES. You can't start with a SNES and then go back to a NES. Plus I'd say overalll the NES games you want to play are still cheaper than the top SNES games.

[GSZX1337]

You can't start with a SNES and then go back to a NES.

I did.

[the King]

You can't start with a SNES and then go back to a NES.

I did.

Well, that only works if you in live in CousinFuck. I don't know the OP's location, so based off that I'd still say start at the beginning and work your way up.