Best Platformer Games of the 1990s
Super Mario 64on 7 of 23 rankings2
Super Metroidon 7 of 23 rankings3
Super Mario Worldon 3 of 23 rankings4
Castlevania: Symphony of the Nighton 5 of 23 rankings5
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Queston 1 of 23 rankings6
Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckleson 1 of 23 rankings7
Crash Bandicoot: Warpedon 1 of 23 rankings8
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage!on 1 of 23 rankings9
Disney's Aladdinon 1 of 23 rankings10
Sonic the Hedgehog 2on 1 of 23 rankings11
Alien Soldieron 1 of 23 rankings12
Mega Man Xon 1 of 23 rankings13
Worms Armageddonon 1 of 23 rankingsHow this ranking is made
According to Made the Cut's census of 23 independent rankings, recounted 16 October 2026, the best Platformer game of the 1990s is Super Mario 64, followed by Super Metroid and Super Mario World.
How this is counted
This chart counts 23 ranking sources, one voice each: the published ranking of games from that source with the most titles whose genre is Platformer and released in the 1990s, cut down to those titles, in the order that source listed them. A title's place is its average position across all sources counted: a title someone left off their ranking counts as tied with their last place (here, that source ranked titles of this kind and left this one out). A small pull toward the middle keeps one enthusiastic list from crowning a #1. Every title in the computed chart has a numbered position, with its source count shown beside it. It is recounted whenever a ranking is published, changed or removed, last on 16 October 2026. Member rankings and attributed external lists use the same calculation. Multiple lists from one member or external author count once; linked slices add no extra vote. Frozen links, private or unlisted lists and unmatched titles are never counted. The full method.
12 of the 23 published rankings of games this counts, in the order they were published.