Overview
- Known As
- Super Nintendo • SNES
- Company
- Nintendo
- Launched
- 13th Aug 1991
- Type
- Console
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Enter...
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"In North America, Japanese art styles like that just won't be accepted"
"Transforms the 1-player race view into a true fullscreen experience"
Super Mario Kart Deluxe arrives this Christmas!
News Super Bomberman Collection Physical Edition Available Now on PS5, Xbox, and Nintendo Switch
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Gill passed away this past weekend from cancer, aged 51
The port was first rumoured back in 1991 in the pages of Nintendo Power
"I’ll believe it when I see the ROM"
Creator Yuji Horii celebrates 40 sword-swingin' years
News Hyperkin's SupaBoy Portable SNES Now Available To Pre-Order In New Colour Designs
Crimson and Prime models priced at $129.99
Sadly, it looks like there's no English localisation in sight though
BS Super Mario USA was originally broadcast in 1996
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About
Widely regarded as possibly the best videogame console ever created, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (aka "SNES") is a machine that needs little introduction. Released in the early '90s, the machine built on the already solid reputation of the NES and Nintendo gleefully updated many of its best known franchises to the system. With better graphics and sound than its direct rival the Mega Drive/Genesis (although it did have a slower CPU), the SNES was seen by many as the better console, despite the fact that the two machines shared many key licences, such as Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter and NBA Jam.
With games like Super Mario World, F-Zero, Zelda: Link to the Past, Starfox, Secret of Mana and Yoshi's Island, the SNES certainly isn't short of classic titles. The console managed to keep on fighting even when the Playstation and Saturn arrived on the scene, but Nintendo sadly dropped the ball with its successor, the N64.
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