The 10 most iconic video game final boss fights of the 90s

GameCentral names 10 of the astir iconic last brag fights of the 90s, spanning the SNES, Mega Drive, and archetypal PlayStation.

The last brag is an important constituent for astir video games, particularly those from the 1990s. It’s the past obstacle to flooded earlier you tin genuinely accidental you’ve completed a crippled and tin either beryllium the eventual trial of accomplishment oregon a powerfulness phantasy to reward players for making it that far.

There is simply a batch that goes into making a last brag basal out. While situation tin beryllium an important factor, being hard doesn’t automatically marque 1 iconic and an overly challenging oregon frustrating last brag tin beryllium memorable for the incorrect reasons. The astir iconic fights are those with the cleanable blend of satisfying gameplay, music, ocular design, and conscionable wide atmosphere.

So, we’ve looked done the champion games the 90s had to connection – connected Sega and Nintendo’s consoles from the era, arsenic good arsenic the archetypal PlayStation – and enactment unneurotic a database of what we judge are the last bosses that defined the decennary for a procreation of gamers.

Bowser (Super Mario 64)

Bowser serving arsenic the last brag successful Mario games was already getting aged by 1996 but, of each the 90s entries, his brag encounters successful Super Mario 64 person stuck successful fans’ minds for a reason. Grabbing him by the process and swinging him retired of the arena (and onto a bomb) felt revolutionary astatine the time, erstwhile 3D question was a marque caller concept. But the 3rd and last combat stands retired for demanding you propulsion him 3 times alternatively of one, arsenic the arena collapses astir you.

Death Egg Robot (Sonic The Hedgehog 2)

The archetypal Sonic The Hedgehog’s last brag was benignant of a dud, with Dr Robotnik eschewing immoderate benignant of mech for a clump of pistons to crush Sonic with. The Death Egg Robot successful the sequel was an undeniable measurement up, offering a acold much intimidating challenge, since you had to deed it from behind. This fight’s truthful beloved that Sega and Sonic Team person brought it backmost aggregate times, and it was adapted into the 2nd live-action Sonic movie.

Dracula (Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night)

By 1997, Castlevania fans had bested Dracula respective times, but his quality successful Symphony Of The Night whitethorn beryllium his astir memorable, acknowledgment successful portion to the delightfully over-the-top dependable acting. His combat is simply a fitting reward for besting the game’s 2nd enactment and, compared to his encounters successful erstwhile games, possibly the astir amusive to play. It’s not particularly difficult, though, if you cognize what you’re doing and person the close kit, but that seems to beryllium wholly purposefully.

Ganon (The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time)

Just erstwhile it seems the evil Ganondorf has been crushed nether his ain ruined operation successful The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, helium bursts from the rubble and transforms into his porcine change ego Ganon. This marked the archetypal clip Ganon had been depicted successful 3D and truly made evident what benignant of monster helium is, acknowledgment to his terrifying plan (at slightest by 90s standards). Having the arena astir cloaked successful darkness, with flashes of lightning concisely illuminating Ganon’s lumbering silhouette, was highly frightening to 90s kids.

Giygas (Earthbound)

Giygas is easy 1 of the astir iconic last bosses not conscionable of the 90s but of each time. Not truthful overmuch due to the fact that of the combat itself, but the ending successful its entirety, which we’d spoil if we explained much but remains memorable and astonishing to this day. A formless alien carnal that tin champion beryllium described arsenic a swirling wide of reddish and black, that astir looks similar a look writhing successful agony, adjacent his words and attacks are incomprehensible, making for a combat that is disturbing portion it’s going connected and wonderfully uplifting erstwhile it’s finished.

Golden Silver (Gunstar Heroes)

The implicit champion brag successful Treasure’s Gunstar Heroes – successful fact, possibly the champion brag of each clip – is the legendary Seven Force but he’s not your last hostile successful the game. Instead, it’s Golden Silver, who’s a precise menacing fig that conscionable stands there, not adjacent flinching arsenic you unload copious amounts of bullets into him. That’s due to the fact that you’re really meant to sprout the floating gems supra him. Otherwise, he’s wholly invincible, which is simply a instrumentality galore don’t realise until it’s excessively late.

Hitler (Wolfenstein 3D)

For a bid each astir warring Nazis determination tin beryllium nary different last hostile successful Wolfenstein 3D, the 1992 crippled that popularised the conception of archetypal idiosyncratic shooters, than Adolf Hitler himself. After descending into Hitler’s bunker, and warring disconnected waves of fakes equipped with flamethrowers, the existent Führer appears successful a mech suit equipped with chainguns. That imagery unsocial is truthful iconic that we often hide it’s lone signifier 1, with Hitler jumping retired erstwhile the mech’s destroyed for a futile past stand.

Mother Brain (Super Metroid)

We’re alert determination are a batch of Nintendo last bosses connected this database (Andross from Star Fox/Starwing astir made the chopped too) but the 90s were location to immoderate of the company’s champion end-of-level baddies. Mother Brain is particularly bully as, astatine first, her combat seems to beryllium a elemental repetition of the archetypal Metroid’s last boss. But upon her defeat, she rises again with a delightfully hideous caller body. Do capable harm and she fires an impossible-to-dodge laser that makes you deliberation you’ve failed, until the babe Metroid appears to execute an arsenic iconic sacrifice and gives Samus the powerfulness she needs to enactment Mother Brain down for good.

Nemesis (Resident Evil 3)

After spending the entirety of Resident Evil 3 moving distant from Nemesis, yet putting the monster down for bully successful the climax is immensely satisfying, some for the subordinate and the protagonist Jill Valentine. It tin beryllium a frantic brushwood for a first-time subordinate since it not lone takes connected an adjacent uglier form, that’s similar 30% mouth, but your ain weapons can’t termination it. You request to powerfulness up the adjacent obstruction cannon and lure Nemesis successful beforehand of it. All of which is handled overmuch amended than successful the Resident Evil 3 remake, which someway omitted Jill’s zinger: ‘You privation stars? I’ll springiness you stars.’

Safer Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII)

Estuans interius, ira vehementi, Sephiroth. Those 5 words person been seared into players’ brains for implicit 25 years acknowledgment to Nobuo Uematsu’s masterpiece of a last brag taxable and astir singlehandedly made Safer Sephiroth arsenic iconic arsenic helium is. Combined with his twisted angelic design, the heavenly backdrop, a trouble level that gets higher if your enactment are astatine level 99, and his deadly Supernova onslaught (which has an animation that lasts 2 full minutes and involves the demolition of respective planets), it’s nary wonderment Safer Sephiroth remains the golden modular for last brag fights successful Final Fantasy games.

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