Big-name devs pick multiple Nintendo games as their favorite games of the last 23 years

EDGE magazine is celebrating its 300th edition this month, and they asked a number of big-name devs to come in and name their favorite games that have launched since that initial issue back in 1993. Here's what the devs on-hand had to say.

Greg Kasavin (Supergiant Games) – Super Metroid
Toshihiro Nagoshi (SEGA) – Pokemon
David Braben (Frontier Developments) – Super Mario 64
David Smith (Media Molecule) – Super Mario 64
Dylan Cuthbert (Q-Games) – Super Mario 64
Neil Young (N3TWORK) – Super Mario 64
Warren Spector (OtherSide Entertainment) – Super Mario 64
David Brevik (Graybeard Games) – Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Nick Burcombe (Playrise Digital) – Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Phil Harrison (Alloy Platform Industries) – Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Hideo Kojima (Kojima Productions) – Pokemon Gold/Silver
Sefton Hill (Rocksteady Studios) – Metroid Prime
Simon Flesser (Simogo) – Wario Ware, Inc: Mega Microgame$

Kojima

- Pokemon Gold/Silver “are probably the two games that I’ve played the most” since EDGE’s debut
- he “found it really refreshing to be able to connect with my son, through a game, when I was in a different place”
- “you had to trade with players who were playing on their own, separate devices in order to complete it.”

Spector

- Super Mario 64 “ushered in the age of 3D platformers and, rare for a first, it was nearly perfect.”

Hill

- Metroid Prime “slipped through the space-time continuum and showed us all how games should be made.”