Super Nintendo Game Console

General Information

This console is also knows as the SNES (Super Nintendo Entertainment System).Its a 16-bit Game Console

Super Nintendo is a fourth generation video game console it was released in Japan on November 21, 1990, Super Nintendo was the best selling console in its time.

Up to today the total amount of Super Nintendo’s that have been sold is over 49 million.

Best sold game on this console was Super Mario World

 

Technical Specs for the Super Nintendo

CPU: 16-bit 65816 (3.58MHz)

RAM: 128KB (1Mb), 64KB (0.5Mb) Video RAM

Graphics: Dedicated graphics processor

Colours: 32768 (256 on screen)

Sprites: 128

Sprite Size: 64×64 pixels

Resolution: 512×448 pixels

Sound: 8-channel 8-bit Sony SPC700 digitized sound

Mario games for the Super Nintendo

Super Mario World

Super Mario World is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo as a pack-in launch title for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It has gone on to become a tremendous critical and commercial success, becoming the best seller for the platform, with 20 million copies sold worldwide. Like in previous games in the Mario series, the plot involves Mario traversing different lands on a quest to rescue Princess Toadstool who has been kidnapped by Bowser.

Super Mario Kart

Super Mario Kart is the first video game in the Mario Kart series, released in 1992 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Players race go-karts as one of eight characters from the Super Mario series. It features advanced graphics for the time thanks to its use of Mode 7 texture mapping. Super Mario Kart is the third best-selling game on the SNES, with eight million copies sold.

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, released in Japan as Super Mario: Yossh? Island is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System console. It was released on August 5, 1995 in Japan, October 4, 1995 in North America and October 6, 1995 in Europe. While featuring Nintendo's trademark Mario character, the game's innovative graphics and gameplay differed from all previous Mario games in that players control various Yoshi dinosaurs rather than Mario himself, who appears as a helpless infant. As Yoshi's Island is the prequel to Super Mario Bros., it is chronologically the first game where Mario, Luigi, Bowser and Yoshi appear. It itself has a sequel on the Nintendo DS called Yoshi's Island DS.

Super Mario All Stars

Super Mario All-Stars is a video game that was developed and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in 1993. It contains enhanced remakes of Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (Japanese: Super Mario Bros. 2), Super Mario Bros. 2 (Japanese: Super Mario USA), and Super Mario Bros. 3. There was also an alternate version (entitled Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World) bundled with the Super Nintendo in December 1994 that included Super Mario World.