Introduction

Super Nintendo Entertainment

System (SNES)

A Brief Talk on the SNES Console

History Rivals Best selling Games SNES Legacy The Future

Released in the UK April 1992

Succeeded the NES Console

49.1 million units sold Worldwide

Best selling 16 bit Console

History

Rivals

Sega Megadrive

Neo Geo

NEC TurboGrafx-16

Atari Jaguar

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Sales (Million)

Sales Figures

Best Selling Games

Super Mario World (20 Million)

Donkey Kong Country (8 Million)

Super Mario Cart (8 Million)

Street Fighter 2 (6.3 Million)

Sony and Nintendo teamed up during the early 90’s with the intention of creating a disk add-on for the Nintendo system. Nintendo pulled the plug on the idea and Sony went their separate way. Sony developers decided to create their own system, the Playstation, which was released in 1995.

SNES Legacy

The Legend of the Super Nintendo lives on!:

• New generation of consoles have introduced classic game downloads including several classic SNES games

• Developers have created ‘Emulators’ which allow games to be played on PC’s

The Future