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Super Nintendo

The Super Nintendo or SNES as it is widely known, was Nintendo Corporation's 16 bit equivalent to the Sega Megadrive, and was the successor to the Nintendo Entertainment System. Released in Japan on November 21, 1990 and called the Super Famicom (short for Super Family Computer) it quickly established itself as Sega's main rival.

In Autumn 1991, the Super Nintendo hit the American shops. With a different design to the Super Famicom (although the internal architecture was identical), and a different cartridge shape to combat importing of US games overseas, the American model matched the success of the Super Famicom in Japan.

Finally, after almost two years of waiting, the Europeans got to see what all the fuss was about and they weren't disappointed! Sporting the same case as the Super Famicom, but running at a slower clock speed of 50Hz because many TV sets did not have the capability to run at 60Hz, the initial release of the Super Nintendo came bundled with two controllers and Super Mario World. Early game releases included the excellent F-Zero, and an arcade conversion of Super R-Type.

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Over the next few years, the Super Nintendo produced some of the best known video games of all time. Mario made his obligatory appearance in many games (the best of the bunch being Super Mario Kart), and Donkey Kong made a welcome return in the hugely successful Donkey Kong Country trilogy. Other notable successes were Super Probotector: Alien Rebels, Street Fighter 2 Turbo and RPG classics such as Zelda and Secret of Mana.

As the competition between Sega and Nintendo went on, and the games got better and better, so did the technology. Many of the later games released contained additional hardware to create advanced effects, compress data and process instructions quicker. The two most widely used were the DSP (Digital Signal Processor) chip which was used in games such Pilotwings and Super Mario Kart to create 3D effects by scaling and rotating backgrounds, and the SuperFX chip used in Starwing which creates 3D landscapes through polygons and texture mapping (something we are all used to now, but was revolutionary at the time!).

The Super Nintendo was succeeded by the Nintendo 64 in 1997, and was taken off the shelves in 1998. This was due to the phenomenal success of the Playstation. The Playstation had originally been developed by Sony and Nintendo together as a CD add-on for the SNES, but they scrapped the idea. Sony took the technology they had been working on and created the Playstation. The rest is history.

Many people regard the Super Nintendo as the best video game system made, and few could argue the effect it has had on recent game developments. The Nintendo / Sega war that raged in the nineties was the same as the Commodore / Spectrum war of the eighties, and however you feel about the console it will always remain one of the most significant piece's of video gaming history.

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Soccer Shootout

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Flags waving, fans singing. Everyone awaits the referee's whistle to kickoff the soccer shootout. It's come down to this: the most anticipated match-up of the year. For real soccer kicks here's Soccer Shootout. Corner kicks, free kicks, throw-ins, yellow cards. You want to win? Teamwork is the key. Cut your opponent's defence to shreds with crisp passes, find the open man and boom, it's in the back of the net! The crowds are here, the teams are here, the referee is here. Now all that's needed is you. Lace up your boots because no matter how you play it, you've scored with Soccer Shootout.

Smurfs

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Smurf to the rescue! Gargamel has already captured 4 Smurfs, Jocky Smurf, Greedy Smurf, Brainy Smurf and Smurfette. To free them you will have to smurf the Angry Smurfs and BUZZ flies before smurfing the mountain by sled, then smurfing the maze mine galleries, smurfing on the back of a stork to smurf Azrael and finally smurf Gargamel from his mansion! Good Smurf!

Smurfs - Travel The World

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What a catastrosmurf! Inquisitive Smurf and Smurfette have broken the magic crystal and now they are being taken off to various parts of the world. Collect all the crystals to be found along your route. Take care, some of them are well hidden. To reveal them, brave the sea lions of the North Pole, the Indians of America and the octopuses of the deep. Only after you have smurfed all these challenges and many others will you be able to return to the village.

Skyblazer

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Ashura, Lord of War, has conquered the Realm and only SkyBlazer has the power to save the world from eternal evil. As SkyBlaser, son of the great sorcerer Sky Lord, you have the incredible ability to transform yourself into many different super beings and summon the powers of nature at will. Experience revolutionary action with perilous journeys over many strange and other worldly lands, where water spouts stand like towers, sands shift like oceans, and enemies leap down from trees and rise from molten lava. The awesome collection of diabolical bosses can only be defeated by tapping SkyBlazer's amazing strength and resources, like the comet flash and the Fiery Phoenix. You'll swim through underwater caverns, explore bizarre ruins, and climb sheer cliffs as you travel from the Gateway of Eternal Storms to the Tower of the Tarolisk. Then face the ultimate challenges of defeating Ashura. The world's fate is in your hands.

Sink or Swim

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You've really been dropped in at the seep end this time! The SS Lucifer is on a one way trip to the seabed after colliding with an iceberg. It's jam packed with panic stricken passengers who are waiting for their hero, Kevin, to come to the rescue. Playing the part of Kevin, you have to guide the passengers through some of the worst hazards in modern game playing before time runs out and the compartments flood.

Shanghai 2 - Dragons Eye

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The ancient pastime of Mah-jongg meets the cutting edge of Super Nintendo games in Shanghai II Dragon's Eye. Strategy, patient, cunning. These and a good memory just might help you beat the computer or your opponent. Then again, they might not.

SeaQuest DSV

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Captain on the Bridge! SeaQuest DSV, the future's largest, most powerful submarine, is at your command! Pilot through pirate infested waters and take on a variety of challenges. To succeed, you must take control of all the SeaQuest's futuristic navigational, information and weapon systems. Explore the depths, answer distress calls and conduct WHISKER scans to locate various mission sites. There you'll choose from four different launch vehicles, the Hyper Reality probe or even Darwin the dolphin to complete your missions. Conduct dangerous rescues, recover sunken treasure and most of all keep the peace in a troubled underwater world. The bridge is yours, captain.

Robocop versus Terminator

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In the crumbling ruins of a world under siege, a man-machine meets machine-man as legendary cyborgs clash to decide the fate of the Earth. As Robocop - both the unwitting agent of humankind's destruction and its last possible champion - you must travel across time into a savage future ruled by the mechanical forces of SkyNet. To destroy this enemy, free its hostages and finally pierce the dark heart of a brutal computer will take something more than plasma rifles and laser guns: the human mind that still burns within you.

Revolution X

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Here's the deal. The New Order Nation is crushing today's youth and destroying all things fun. It's a gruesome regime, under the iron rule of Headmistress Helga. Suddenly America's premier rock band, Aerosmith, is abducted by NON forces. Now it's up to you to stop the destruction and Music is the Weapon.

Ren and Stimpy Show - Veediots

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Help! We're trapped in our own TV show! Stimpy and I we can't take it anymore man! We've decided to bust out of this two bit tube and into the real world but we need your help! First in The Boy Who Cried Rat! Stimpy is trying his hand at being a mousecatcher and the couse of course it is I in disguise! Man I just hope that eediot doesn't eat me by mistake! Then In The Army I'm behind enemy lines and up to my earbones in all sorts of bad guys! Jeez! Who wrote this episode anyway? In Stimpy's Invention that feline friend of mine is putting together something in his crazy laboratory. Finally in Marooned!, Space Cadet Stimpy has gotten himself lost and digested in the furthest reaches of the galaxy! Deegusting. Oh yeah, everyone else is trapped in here too, Mister Horse, Space Cabbages, Muddy Mudskipper and even Powdered Toastman, man! So grab those controls and get us out of here!

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