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