Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) is a 16 bit home console manufactured and released by Nintendo in 1990 in Japan and 1991 in North America.

It was the predecessor to the Nintendo Entertainment System.

It's main competitor was the Sega Genesis.

History
The console and games where being produced earlier then 1987, this was because the Sega Genesis and Turbo Grapix where going to release in 1988, and 1989 respectfully, so Nintendo announced the SNES in a newspaper on September 1987, it was shown in the public in 1988 and in 1989. Nintendo planned to have a 4th Mario game and a Dragon Quest V to release along side with the SNES, and they would be developing 3 new titles to the SNES, Once the SNES was released a new Mario game and a new ip, that being Pilotwings where released, immediately it was a success selling 300 thousand consoles and the launch titles also sold great.

By 1992 things where getting rough, Sega was advertising the Genesis as a cooler, and hipper version of the SNES, the marketing strategy Sega did paved the way, by selling more then the SNES, for a while though. Then the 32-bit era began and consoles such as the Playstation and Sega Saturn, those had better sound, graphics, video and sprites, Nintendo was still confident there SNES would live through the 32 and 64 bit era, by a collaboration between Nintendo and Rare, they released "Donkey Kong Country" in 1994, they marketed it to not be on Sega's new "32X" model and only being on 16-bit hardware, the game was a huge success, it became the second best selling game of the SNES, and throughout the rest of the 90's, the SNES sold more, and more, but the console life ended around 1999.

Around 1997, Nintendo released a budget SNES, called the New Style SNES, or SNES 2, it featured a new console design and it was bundled with a couple of games, for example, Super Mario RPG, this console was made for people who were getting into gaming.

Later Life
In 1996, the Nintendo 64 released, showing that the console had true 3D, before in the SNES's life, Argonaut games and Nintendo collaborated on Star Fox, a "3D" game that worked off of the new "SUPER FX" tool, a chip that allowed polygonal lines that can shape like 3D objects, Star Fox was a success but had a sequel that was planned to release in 1995, but shelved due to the Nintendo 64, the SNES and Genesis lasted through the late 90's but where officially discontinued in 1998 to 1999, however in Japan, The NES and SNES where giving technical support until 2007. that last game for both consoles was "Frogger"

There was also a Satellaview, where you were able to play games in real time, and play remakes and already existing SNES games to.

There was a "SUPER FX 2" that was more powerful then the original and it was on games like "Super Mario World 2 Yoshi's island".

SNES Classic
In the Fall of 2017, Nintendo released the SNES Classic, which had 20 games plus the cancelled Star Fox 2, similar to the NES Classic, it was a hit however the only problem that it had only 20 games, the NES classic had over 30 which made the deal better then the SNES classic, but with the detail of a restored Star Fox 2, it made the deal better.

Nintendo Switch Online
Around 2019, Nintendo offered new SNES games to Nintendo Switch online members, they would came out on a monthly bases, they continue to this day.

Trivia
During the Life of the SNES, Sony was making a deal with Nintendo to have a CD-add on, they accepted but at the last minute Nintendo decided to give it to Philips, this is how the Playstation was released.


 * On the topic of Nintendo and Sony, both controllers look very similar in terms of design, especially the first controller design.
 * This console also had a bunch of bootleg games, continuing to this day.
 * Kirby's Dream Land 3 was the last first party game for the system
 * The FX Chip had the name "Mario_Chip" on it, this could be a reference to Super Mario.