We need to tell you something unprecedented happened during our SNES rankings debate. After three weeks of arguments about Chrono Trigger vs Earthbound, fights over whether Street Fighter II deserved top ten, and one genuinely heated discussion about Donkey Kong Country that almost got personal – we unanimously agreed on one thing. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past belongs at number three, and not a single person fought about it. Carl immediately…

Look, ranking the ten best SNES games nearly ended friendships. Carl had to mediate arguments that got genuinely heated. Joe kept trying to downrank everything because of his Sega loyalty. Tim wrote a manifesto about Chrono Trigger despite only discovering it five years ago. Sam defended Street Fighter II with the intensity of a lawyer arguing a murder case. But after three weeks of arguments, passive-aggressive Slack messages, and one Zoom call where John wouldn’t…