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The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, commonly shortened to Super Nintendo, [b] Super NES or SNES, [c] is a 16-bit home video game console developed by Nintendo that was released in 1990 in Japan and South Korea, [16] 1991 in North America, 1992 in Europe and Oceania and 1993 in South America.
The best-selling game on the SNES is Super Mario World. First released in Japan on November 21, 1990, it went on to sell over 20 million units worldwide. [1] The second Super Mario game on the SNES, Super Mario All-Stars, is the second-best-selling game on the platform, with sales in excess of 10.5 million units. [1]
Super Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges. Top: North American design Bottom: PAL/Japanese region design. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System has a library of 1,738 official releases, of which 717 were released in North America plus 4 championship cartridges, 522 in Europe, 1,448 in Japan, 231 on Satellaview, and 13 on SuFami Turbo. 295 releases are common to all regions, 148 were ...
The Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System has a library of 1376 [a] officially licensed games released during their lifespans, plus 7 official multicarts and 2 championship cartridges. Of these, 672 were released exclusively in Japan, 187 were released exclusively in North America, and 19 were released exclusively in PAL countries.
Many games for older systems were updated with superior graphics or sound and re-released for current consoles. Commonly emulated games included those released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, the Mega Drive/Genesis, the PlayStation (the PS2 can play PS1 games natively), and the Nintendo 64.
Nintendo released the first solar-powered light gun, the Nintendo Beam Gun, [15] in 1970; this was the first commercially available light-gun for home use, produced in partnership with Sharp. [16] In 1972, Nintendo released the Ele-Conga, one of the first programmable drum machines. It plays pre-programmed rhythms from disc-shaped punch cards ...
F-Zero [a] is a 1990 racing game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It was released in Japan on November 21, 1990, in North America in August 1991, and in Europe in 1992. F-Zero is the first game in the F-Zero series and was a launch game for the SNES.
This is a list of cancelled Super Nintendo Entertainment System video games. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), known as the Super Famicom in Japan, is a video game console released by Nintendo in 1990 as the successor to the Nintendo Entertainment System. The system enjoyed great success until being succeeded by the Nintendo 64 in ...