Super Nintendo Entertainment System

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Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)
Manufacturer	Nintendo
Type	Console
Release Date	November 21, 1990 (JP) August 13, 1991 (USA) April 11, 1992 (EU) June 19, 1992 (Canada) July 3, 1992 AU)
Media	Cartridge
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Units Sold	49 million
Top Selling Game	Super Mario World
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Competitor(s)	Sega Genesis
Predecessor	Nintendo Entertainment System
Successor	Nintendo 64

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (often shortened to Super NES or SNES) was released in North America in August 13, 1991 after the design was retooled from the Japanese Super Famicom. The European version, however, retained the look and design of the Super Famicom. The system was a powerful update to the NES/Famicom. The system initially came with Super Mario World as a bundled game but later in its life this was changed to Donkey Kong Country.

Contents 1 System Information 2 Advertising and Competition 3 Games 4 Launch Titles 5 See also

[edit] System Information

The SNES was a 16-bit console and therefore had better graphics than its predecessor, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It was quite a revolutionary console at the time and the 16-bit graphics made many of the games more pleasing to the eye.

[edit] Advertising and Competition

The SNES was competing with the Sega Genesis/Megadrive. The SNES had a slogan like most gaming consoles at the time. The SNES slogan at the beginning of its market life was "Now you're playing with power -- SUPER power!", which was a modified version of the NES' usual slogan. This was later changed around 1994 with "Play it loud!" The SNES originally came either with one controller and no pack-in cartridge or with two controllers and Super Mario World as its pack-in cartridge.

[edit] Games

The SNES like its predecessor had a huge library of games including Super Mario All-Stars, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter II, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time, Star Fox (Starwing in Europe) and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. These games were all very well known at the time and were often spoken of in the way people speak of, say: Halo 3, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Gears of War. Many of the games on the SNES were later ported to the Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance as these two handheld consoles were capable of holding the 16-bit graphics of the SNES.

[edit] Launch Titles

• Super Mario World
• F-Zero
• Pilotwings (USA Launch)

[edit] See also

• List of SNES games
• SNES games