The IGN Readers’ Top 25 Nintendo Games of All Time

Recently, IGN teamed up with Nintendo Life to fertile the Top 100 Best Nintendo Games of All Time. But this solemnisation wasn't conscionable astir what we think: we besides wanted to cognize what your database would be, too. This was calculated done our Face Off tool, which pits 2 games against each different until you’ve tally done each of the permutations, and past places the games successful bid of their triumph percentage. So, pursuing a face-off successful which thousands of you voted — with your fig 1 prime being progressive successful 21,405 duels — we’ve got a Top 25 based connected the IGN audience’s opinion.

The games that look successful this database really aren’t excessively antithetic from the ones that marque up our ain apical positions, albeit with rather a antithetic order. You favour Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda bid implicit astir others. So much, successful fact, that the apical 10 is dominated wholly by these 2 Miyamoto creations.

What follows is the Top 25 arsenic voted by IGN readers, with a useful examination beneath that shows your picks alongside the IGN and Nintendo Life’s list.

25. Mario Kart 64 – 59.0% Win Rate

24. Super Mario Bros. – 59.2% Win Rate

23. Pokemon Yellow (Red/Blue) – 59.4% Win Rate

22. Donkey Kong Bananza – 61.2% Win Rate

21. Chrono Trigger – 61.2% Win Rate

20. GoldenEye 007 – 61.9% Win Rate

19. The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening – 62.7% Win Rate

18. Super Metroid – 62.7% Win Rate

17. Super Smash Bros. Melee – 63.4% Win Rate

16. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess – 65.3% Win Rate

15. Metroid Prime (+ Remastered) – 65.6% Win Rate

14. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask – 66.1% Win Rate

13. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 66.1% Win Rate

12. Super Mario Galaxy 2 – 66.8% Win Rate

11. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 66.9% Win Rate

10. Super Mario. Bros 3 – 67.9% Win Rate

9. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker – 68.4% Win Rate

8. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past – 69.0% Win Rate

7. Super Mario Galaxy – 69.6% Win Rate

6. Super Mario World – 70.5% Win Rate

5. Super Mario 64 – 70.5% Win Rate

4. Super Mario Odyssey – 71.3% Win Rate

3. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 73.2% Win Rate

2. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 77.1% Win Rate

1. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – 77.5% Win Rate

So, that's what you voted arsenic the 25 champion Nintendo games ever, but however does it comparison to IGN and Nintendo Life’s version? Well, determination are a fewer notable differences. The IGN readers picked Mario Kart 64 arsenic fig 25 — a crippled that didn’t adjacent marque our Top 100 arsenic 1 of our 2 Mario Kart entries. On the flip side, we had Tetris placed astatine 5, but it was each the mode down astatine 33 successful the nationalist vote.

You tin cheque retired the array beneath to get a nonstop examination betwixt the apical 25s. Which bash you yet hold with more? Let america cognize successful the comments below!

Simon Cardy is simply a Senior Editor astatine IGN who tin chiefly beryllium recovered skulking astir unfastened satellite games, indulging successful Korean cinema, oregon despairing astatine the authorities of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Follow him connected Bluesky astatine @cardy.bsky.social.