Super Nintendo

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When I typed the tittle, I felt like putting Super What? because the console is Super Nintendo, this console was a true heart in the gaming industry with it's very own mascot Mario, similar idea to Sega's Sonic, and Sony's Crash Bandicoot, which did not take a place anywhere near as Mario. The console was Cartridge based, and lived on, it is a fact that the console used Super FX in Cartridges, Starwing, this was an absolute treasure to play, and playable, fun and exciting game, the sounds were great, the controls was spot on, infact the game itself was bundled with the console eventually, bit like the Mario pack and the many other bundles, but the most effective bundle was Starwing and Mario pack.

The console's name was Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The facts:
49.10 million units sold.
Media: Cartridge
CPU: 16-bit Ricoh 5A22 3.58 MHz
Next Model: Nintendo 64

Nintendo was going in with Sony's Playstation console but ended up in separate directions. Nintendo's 64 console and Sony's Playstation. However besides the point. The SNES went through many designs including the controller, until they finally settled for the way the console was for launch in 1992 for Europe ? could be wrong. The games were great, you had, Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, Shaq-Fu, Killer Instinct, Street Fighter 2, Starwing, infact this console had such great games that I enjoyed playing on till late at night on Micro Machines, still found it hard trying to avoid those snooker balls on that table. Ah memories.

The console in Japan had online services, which USA and Europe did not see. Oh look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System for the concept designs before they settled down to what we now know the SNES.

As you may know the console is a 32-Bit based console, it allowed better graphics, faster gameplay, infact it had such a great response, that Sega struggled a bit with they Sega Mega Drive 2 and Sega CD, but let's not be put of with Cartridges...yet, well Nintendo still use Cartridge media today, even though they are memory card media today, but still the same type of principle, we are talking Nintendo's DS console. Back to SNES, Killer Instinct was a great way to show of the console, the introduction to the game, with the gold coloured logo, then Nintendo's logo shinning up the screen, lovely, then the tittle and the music, nice, it get's better with the deep voice saying "Killer Instinct" you must play the game or watch a video on youtube to see for yourself, it will be worth listening alone. The way Nintendo's logo came on the screen and disappeared on Killer Instinct was nice and smooth, I loved this game,. Here have a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ABgZ8Ya7AQ  Killer Instinct was released in 1995.

There a high demand for the console, infact I prefered this console purely because of the games catalogue, and the magazines were great, it was a true kid's console and also met the need for adult gameplay as well. The console supported more colours than NES and the sound was an absolute massive improvement. The whole console was a big improvement over the NES, but let's not forget how great the NES was as well shall we, the post will be coming up soon.

It's that time again, hope you enjoyed a quick read, see you soon, very soon.
Take care & Best wishes,
RGUK