I love the eject button on the super nes, I would eject the game so hard it would get air and then i would catch it while it shot out the system 3 feet high!
I always envied the famicom for having a better overall look, they have an actual logo lol, the fact the controller looks a bit nicer too and coincides with the logo too. Wish we would have gotten quite a few of the japanese exclusives too, thankfully translated roms online have fixed that and reproduction carts too lol
In the UK we got the Super Famicom design, but it was call the Super Nintendo. I remember seeing an American Super Nintendo and not knowing what it was at first as it looked so different to what I had at home.
Pehmokettu Yeah, that is why the whole Super Nintendo vs Super Famicom title confused the hell out of me at first.. like what the hell... Super Nintendo is supposed to look exactly like the Super Famicom :P I do realize the guys are in North America though and I now know they got that weird boxy purple buttoned SNES.
Savio Dias But the NTSC version SNES have many legendary games that are not available for the PAL version SNES (like Earthbound and Super Mario RPG) so even though the console is ugly the games are what are more important. (There is also some games that are only available in PAL region but those are not usually very good games). PAL games also had 50 Hz instead of 60 Hz and that usually made games run slower even though the graphics in some games looked much better in the PAL region.
Tom-Alexander Whyte It's much more beautiful than the US and Brazil versions, but the weak point is the european one can't play japanese cartridges even having the same size of the japanese sfc
Unfortunately here in Brazil, we got the north american design. But just 1 year ago i finally buy an original Super Famicom in the box. It was one of the most dreamed consoles by me and it was worth every penny!
holy shit...same age when i got it but with regular street fighter..ive never heard of anyone getting that combo..in my 30s so around same time i reckon..
Hey Johnny, I don't know if youll read this but after listening to AGG since it started, Im so glad that you have came out your shell with the show because now you can express your real feelings about a game and can swear now :) I like the way the show has gone, Keep it up!
I saved up all summer and bought the Super Famicom with Super Mario and F-Zero on launch day when I was 14. When the US Snes came out I had to uncase the cartridges to play them on it. Thankfully the Game Shark came out not long after which worked nicely as a cartridge adapter lol.
Same here in Brazil =) ~ bought the Famicom and the oficial release was the square one. Girl! My friends would not let me open their shells to play - so I had to commit a crime, I screwed the side of the cartridge inlet =( Can u believe?
All I thought about when I saw the buttons was the candy Smarties; I am so glad I am not the only one, lol. The non-US console design def. had the right idea. Also, my first exp. in playing started with an aunt who rented the console and three games... for several months! The store finally just called and asked her to bring it in with a greatly reduced fee. I didn't get to play the SNES again for over a year. Great memories, guys!
We got the proper design, and colours in Europe. Strange how they change things for the US. The Genesis is called the Mega Drive here, just like in Japan.
Personally I think the super famicom looks more like an office appliance than it does a game console, but as for the Mega Drive, the only reason it was called the Genesis is because of a copyright from another company. Sega would have been sued if they kept the name.
We had the "Famicom" style in Scotland, happy memories. I'm 28 and have a tune from super mario world as my ringtone. makes me happy with every phone call.
I grew up in America, and didn't even know what the Super Famicom looked like until probably the early 2000s when I saw it on the internet. But I'm glad we got the version we got. I think the American one looks way better, and the controller looked cooler too, I like the purple over the rainbow.
Great episode! I love the super famicom design over the wester design. I remember the christmas snes launched in 1991, the mall had an eb games mini store with a kiosk of super mario world which was playable for about 20 minutes. the line of people was WRAPPED around half the mall all day everyday!! I've never seen new console kiosk excitement like that since.
I prefer the SNES color scheme with a simpler two-tone approach. I do like the Super Famicom logo a lot, but the controller is a bit tacky looking with all the bright colors.
Great video guys, I've still got very fond memories of getting a SNES for Christmas back in the early 90s. I got the Control Set with Final Fight, Super Mario Kart, Street Fighter II and a Asciiware SNES Advantage, good times. I agree that the Japanese SFC looked a lot nicer than the SNES. Not sure why they decided to go with a different case and purple buttons but at least it still played the same.
Growing up in England, I had no idea that the US Super Nintendo looked so strange. The European version looked like the Japanese version. So odd to discover years later what The US got.
I'm glad you brought this up. It's such a small footnote in history but the SNES design always bugged the hell out of me as the previews in magazines in 1989 were showing the beautiful Super Famicom. Even the multicolor logo was this awesome touch as it artistically made sense because the SNES was such a colorful system at the time. SNES reminded me of the Master System on steroids. Lance Barr who designed the case clarified that "The Super Famicom was maybe okay for the market in Japan. For the US, I felt that it was too soft and had no edge. We were always looking at future modular components (even the NES had a connector on the bottom), so you had to design with the idea of stacking on top of other components. I though the Super Famicom didn't look good when stacked and even by itself, had a kind of "bag of bread" look." Ended up still being a very poor aesthetic choice. It also doesn't explain the bland muted colors. No offense to Lance but I trust Japanese designers over American ones 9 times out of 10 when it comes to these type of things. For example has anyone ever compared the artwork from the Japanese boxes to American ones? American ones are terrible across the board. Here's an example of UN Squadron for U.S. www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/236949-u-n-squadron-snes-front-cover.jpg UN Squadron for Japan(renamed the proper title Area 88) otaku.com/files/images/fullsize/51334Y.JPG Super Mario World US cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ymgqt/images/stencil/original/products/26439/35831/snes-super-mario-world-box__93325.1489073566.jpg?c=2&imbypass=on Super Mario Word Japan www.supergabygames.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SMW_SMB4-JAP_-_COVER.jpg
I am from the UK, but I always preferred the look of the NTSC SNES/Cart design. Maybe it's a grass is always greener thing, haha. I have a modded SNES now with 50/60Hz and region switching, so I have the best of both these days. Amazing being able to play games like Earthbound from the actual cart
I cant describe what im feeling right now... So epic feelings... I ask myself, if our parents got so epic memories from their childhood. It was so epic times back then, and today im still lovin it, and the snes is still my personal favourite console. I had so much fund and epicness with it. Nice to see that others loved it like me :) we got the same feel
16 bit era was my favorite system of all times. Still got them and play them. all snes, super famicom, and genesis are all top systems. The new systems today ps3, ps4, xbox 1 amazing graphics but a little to real and could encourage anger or even killing, hard to distinguish reality from fantasy for many. I,m a peacemaker and love alll, don,t support war or fighting, international peace and unity to all MANKIND.
interesting... in Australia we got the rounded version but labeled Super NES... All that changed was the label. (as an Aussie, I like the purple on the US version. Grey on Grey isn't that nice)
I will always defend the NA SNES Design I love it! I love the purple Gray color scheme and the concave convex buttons. I prefer its look. I never remember people saying it was ugly back in 1991. I think that was a later thing when the internet came along and people saw the Super Famicom. It became cool to hate the design of the NA SNES. Not me I adore that purple gray design. I still love your look SNES
I agree that the Super Famicom is the better looking console. It's sleeker and more elegant. But the design of the NA Super Nintendo is not horrible. I think just one small change to it would improve it quite a bit in the looks department...Change the color of the power and reset switches. I don't know why they went with purple, but it gives the SNES a very toy-like look. Change the switch color to red, black, or even dark grey, and it would look more serious. there is another video of an SNES that a guy painted gloss black and red that looks sexy as heck. Granted, Nintendo probably didn't want to color the SNES in black since its main competitor the Genesis was black, but hey what can you do?
The design change for the U.S was completely unnecessary and really mind-boggling. Why? Really just why? They kept the design of the Super Famicom here in Europe for the PAL SNES and I always thought it looked really nice.. and only years later did I actually see the U.S design for the first time. I was not even aware that there was a Super Nintendo that was not round without the multi-colored candy buttons, but instead blocky with purple buttons :O
Purple always was a go to color Japanese companies use to make their products look sleek at the shows. Back during the Sega-Snes console war when Sony was first revealing the PSX it was entirely purple including the controller. Which we all thought made it look a look completed and closer to a true release date than what Nintendo, and other companies had been promising us and constantly changing release dates. I remember the frustration of "Project Reality" then "Ultra 64" and finally Nintendo releasing the thing.
I've seen a Super Famicom before.. and my first impressions were, "That looks like a miniature printer", BUT, then I saw the Super Nintendo, and those purple buttons and the grey exterior gave it MUCH more appeal (It looked like it could do a bit more) It actually looked fun.
i remember my friend renting the Super Famicom about a week after it came out in Japan.we rented SMW and Ultraman.we were going crazy over the rotation and scalling effects.i still do to this day.
its actually not the same speed. it's a little faster in PAL for some games (super mario world) but still in 25FPS and most of the time they are slower. Sonic runs like turtle and it's unplayable by Japanese/American standards.
Yeah PAL may of had a slower refresh rate, but the resolution of PAL screens was far superior to NTSC. When we see old American tv recordings over here it looks like someone put vaseline on the camera lens...
@Matt Harris In the console games the 8 & 16 bit era, PAL's extra lines of resolution just ended up as black bars above and below a squished picture that was meant for NTSC.
i never even heard of snes until as late as 94. when i moved into a new house and the neighbors had it and donkey kong country. i never even got to play but i loved to watch. i begged my parents and got one for Christmas.... i played that thing right through the n64 days right up until i got a game boy advance. the controller cord is duck taped and my favorite games where the 3donkey kong countries, yoshis island, and turtles in time. i just remember playing it then watching that 70's show...
I remember when I got my Super Famicom, it was a RELIGIOUS experience, my dad shelled out $400 plus shipping from JAPAN, I had it a week after release, and I got Super Mario Bros.4 (World) with it. As a matter of fact, I still have it, it's sitting right here beside me and it still works flawlessly. It's tied IMHO with my Turbo Duo for #1 console.
I'm surprised how strongly you both prefer the Super Famicom's design. I think it looks pretty bland compared to the SNES though I think the colors on the controller looks great.
ForeRunnerODST Growing up in Europe, with the Famicom model (bearing Super Nintendo as name) , I always thought it looked super cool, colorful buttons and a the cool logo with red, yellow, green and blue which the Famicom didnt have... My friends dad worked alot it the US and he brought home a US super Nintendo , and me and my frined thought it was some kind of cheap knockoff from China or something. some 3rd party ugly thing that played SNES games. didnt help we had to use a converter cartridge to play our games. Now it looks OK, but the famicom/PAL SNES looks way better
I laughed hard when the beat up controller was shown with the wire pulled.. i can't remember how many times i opened up those controllers to get the wire back into place.. ahh memories
Yeah dude, I'm English and it's definitely a pal snes. Not arguing with the fact that in this video it appears to be a ntsc super famicom, just stating the fact that it is a pal snes here in England.
Darren Draper Its has super famicom written on it you dumbass. The european Super Nintendo kept the original design. Only the US had this craze of localizing everything.
Darren Draper Actually you said "I'm English and it's definitely a pal snes.", which is probably why you got that response. It looks like that *everywhere* in the world except for the US, so there's no point in pointing out that it lookes like that in "insert country".. Bottom line is, what's in the video is a SuFami, nothing else.
I had the uk pal version but also bought the USA version and loved it so much more because of the ntsc scart output 17 percent faster and cleaner looking you really could tell the difference and I loved my USA SNES and the purple buttons felt different than the other versions great video
You need your eyes rinsed. Besides ithat is not the super Famicon, that's the Pal Snes. The Pal Snes looks so much better, it looks modern even today. The american snes looks like a gray and purple brick. It's like comparing champange to carbonated piss.
Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I agree with LoDDEMOCIDE, the American SNES had such an iconic design. The Super Famicom has a cooler looking controller, and the logo is better, but the console itself just seems so... boring and standard to me. Plain grey-on-grey colors, and a curved design that seems reminiscent of the Genesis/Mega Drive. It just seems so utilitarian to me, like a tape player, while the American SNES looks like a proper video game console. I will say, though... I prefer the way the SFC carts looked, despite the lack of any end labels.
ZombifiedDuder I don't know, I think the boxy design of the american SNES looks about as ridiculous as the SuperGrafx. In many ways the two things look very similar (nevermind the difference in color). I like the simple design on the Super Famicom, it looks like something you'd play games on, rather than a weapon.
The PAL consoles look like the famicom which is what I have and it was the controller that made me fall in love with it along with super mario brothers. I went to my friend's house for a sleep over and we played it (this was in something like 2002) and I fell in love instantly! Then about 10 years later I finally got one for my birthday off ebay with mario world and allstars :D
omg i remember getting my SNES for christmas the year it came out from my grandpa, he was so happy to buy it for me. i got the mario paint edition while my cousin got the mario kart. i still have it to this day and love it!
That diamond layout for the 4 face buttons (where the distance between the left-most and right-most buttons is greater than the distance between the top-most and bottom-most buttons) on the SNES controller was amazing. Wish they'd go back to that design.
Funny I liked the U.S. Grey purple machine, we got the super famicom body over here in Australia so I bought a U.S. Import snes just coz I thought it looked cool - and if you broke these little tabs inside the cartridge bay you could play super famicom games without an adapter - talk about being versatile - oh my gawd you got a purple Super Nintendo - that is soooo cool - my friends would say !! Yep I sure did
I was probably too young to have any real release memories (born in 1990) but I have had a lot of memories with my SNES back when I was 5. The very first game I ever got my hands on at home was Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. I played the crap out of that game. I also lived right across Willows Videos at the time and that's when we rented the N64 when it first came out and I was blown away, I mean I was like 7 at the time. In fact that Willows Videos is still there today. I still go there
My mother bought me a (PAL) snes a year ago and i was blown away by the gorgeous design. super mario world still seems surreal to me: the graphics and sounds and level designs
I think we got a box with big buttons because it was geared towards kids. So it has that simple fisher price look to it. Where in Japan they got a sleek futuristic looking system because most of the country plays Video Games and they see it as a serious piece of hardware.
the way you describe the super famicom controller looking like fun is how i felt about first seeing the xbox 360 controllers ...love the colorful designs on both of those controllers
I honestly didnt know before today that that blocky thing is the same as what we Europeans knew as the SNES. Granted we had to wait till 1992, but still... classic sleek console. The North merican SNES reminds me of how a car company stuck some brutal panels and overexaggerated body parts on an old GMC bus and called it Hummer H2, knowing it would appeal to the US market...
I like the ripples on the bottom of the US model but the sleek lines all over the Super Famicom are definitely nicer plus those awesome colored buttons. Its funny since inside the controller is raised letters with each hole labeled with the Super Famicom colors. Great system, haven't been excited about a Nintendo console since then.
Johnny, regarding the piece of tape on your SNES controller ~12 inches up from where it connects, i believe you originally had taped up the frayed wires at the base and the tape slide down (probably scotch tape which its adhesive can dry up quickly) So it doesn't look like it was cut then taped up (that's what i think you guys were thinking while filming) I'm such a nerd for writing this O_o, but i love this review, keep em' coming!
My first exposure to super famicom was via a news piece from CNN tech reporting from CES with Miles Obrien. I knew that it would be repeated in the day so I sat there with my VCR recording to make sure I could catch it. I did and re-Ted clips of super Mario works and f-zero over and over again. I'm with you rob-man. The early days of super famicom are like religious lore and I will never forget living that moment.
I prefer NA version may not be sleek but it is cool looking because you can see the depth perception with different main outside and inside being slightly wider
Great vid dude, I remember when I first got my snes with SF World Warrior. One of the few old school consoles I still play today since its so freaking awesome!
I know I'm late to the party, but just bought a Super Famicom out of the blue because it's the system that my best friend and I saw in Nintendo Power and wanted. We talked about it forever, and he got the Super Nintendo (we are in the US) a year later. My parents thought video games were a waste of $$, so no system for me... but I could always go over his house and play it. Years later, I just decided to see what they are going for, and ended up buying one. I'm excited. Makes me want to start collecting video games again.
I'm glad we got the Super Famicom design in Europe, though we were permanently gimped with PAL and 1 to 2 year late releases. I am really attuned to the speed of games and music and every time I play american versions of games I loved back in the day it's weird hearing the music faster. I think the biggest difference is in NES Super Mario Bros.
Oh yea we did. I saw a US Snes in friend's house once and asked him what a fuck is that, why it says Super Nintendo on it? And he said it's American Super Nintendo that his dad bring to him from US. I was like, thank god our version doesn't look ugly piece of shit like that. We had original design with Super Nintendo text on it. But everything else gaming related back then, we got screwed over and over, and some ways still do.
***** because PAL has a higher clock frequency and more lines than NTSC but all the games were made for NTSC, they had to be 'slowed' to compensate for the clock difference and borders put on to compensate for less lines. The only times we had a better version of games instead of much worse was on British games like Wipeout and on certain games on the sweet sweet Dreamcast that were 'Pal 60hz'.
Question, I bought a Super Famicom and I live in the US. It came with the official Nintendo adapter. The adapter says 100V. US is standard for 120V. Hooking the system to the outlet can it damage or harm the ac adapter? Any help is appreciated.
I grew up with the good ol' Super Nintendo design and to this day, I friggin love the ABXY button style and whenever I look back on it, I get a little tingle in my spine ^-^
I remember seeing the Super Famicom in the 90s when I visited Japan and Philippines and being confused. I bought Donkey Kong Country 2 Super Famicom version and the cartridge worked on my US SNES to my surprise.
I don`t know I kinda like the SNES design better. Could be that it`s connected to fond memories, but I also just feel like the color scheme is balanced better, and I just really like how the power and reset buttons just slide right along that ridge on the top of it.
I never knew up to a few years go that the american version was so boxy ! Im from europe so we got the sleek design with the super nintendo writing on it, awesome. Also remember getting it the week it launched with my dad , driving from the store with a huge box on my lap, so great !
NOA changed the shape to prevent people from putting liquid containers on top of the console. This is why cartridge slot on the North American console was slight rounded. Furthermore, NOA still had a lingering perception that US gamers wouldn't buy a system that looked like a "toy", hence the elimination of the curved corners and colorful logos, to a more boxy shape and mono-chrome color palette. The only positive change was the concave B & A buttons, but otherwise the JPN version looks better.
We in the UK got the super famicon design. It's exactly the same accept it has super Nintendo entertainment system written on it. I do like the north America one though, the design reminds me of those squared 80s cars in - Planes Trains and Automobiles.
I just got a Wii Classic Controller shaped like a SNES controller as it appeared here in the UK. Most gorgeous thing I own. That and my gold zelda Wii Remote Plus.
I got the SNES for Christmas 1992. I was given the SNES, Super Mario World, Mario Paint, Street Fighter 2, Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past (abbreviating it cheapens the game) and the Super Scope 6 bundle. I love this system, hands down the greatest ever, I firmly believe people still follow Nintendo because of this. Also, we have the Playstation because of this. It was supposed to be an add-on for the SNES like the Sega CD was. This is quite possibly the best console ever.
my snes controller is frayed just like yours. my 3 go to snes games were super mario, donkey kong country and super street fighter 2. some real nice memories there.
The pulled out first control the one guy talked about was a design flaw in early controllers the clamp would break away. I had the same problem when I bought my first Snes I used inheritance from my grandmother to buy it. I called Nintendo on it and they replaced it with fixed version. That first Snes was stolen. Now i play Snes games on my computer using Zsnes and ROM downloads.
Speaking as someone from the UK, I agree 100%! In PAL territories we had the Super Fami design, which to my five year old mind was amazing; everything about it just emphasized 'fun', and it remains my favourite system design (along with the Mega Drive model 1) to this day. When I saw the US SNES design years later, I was all "...the hell did they do!? o_o"
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In the UK we got the Super Famicom design but it was branded as a Super Nintendo
+Mortal Porcupine Same for Germany.
+_Ofenkartoffel_ Yeh I think all of Europe got this design. It's the best design. The US version looks like crap
Yes, it does.
+Mortal Porcupine All of Europe had the Famicom design
+Mongoldreng All of Australasia as well..
I love the eject button on the super nes, I would eject the game so hard it would get air and then i would catch it while it shot out the system 3 feet high!
Same
I always envied the famicom for having a better overall look, they have an actual logo lol, the fact the controller looks a bit nicer too and coincides with the logo too.
Wish we would have gotten quite a few of the japanese exclusives too, thankfully translated roms online have fixed that and reproduction carts too lol
Dude watching you guys brings back my enjoyment with all the NES I had as a kid since the 80's
In Australia we had the good looking colourful snes. I had a mate whos dad imported the purple one from singapore. always preferred the coloured one!
Really appreciated hearing your thoughts and opinions looking back.
"Oh what a religious experience"
Damn straight!
Yep, Europe had the Japanese design. one of my friends bought the US one and i was "meh"...
One thing i can say, is that i def prefer the pushed in or "concave" i believe, buttons of Y and X on Super Nintendo..! ;)
I do think the Super Famicom looks way better as well. Great video
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"Don't you wanna eat those buttons!" I thought I was the only person in the world who thought like this about colours
In the UK we got the Super Famicom design, but it was call the Super Nintendo. I remember seeing an American Super Nintendo and not knowing what it was at first as it looked so different to what I had at home.
Super Nintendo looked like Super Famicom in all PAL region, not just in UK. Only the North American SNES looks like that terrible cube crap.
Pehmokettu
Yeah, that is why the whole Super Nintendo vs Super Famicom title confused the hell out of me at first.. like what the hell... Super Nintendo is supposed to look exactly like the Super Famicom :P I do realize the guys are in North America though and I now know they got that weird boxy purple buttoned SNES.
Tom-Alexander Whyte lucky. in brazil we got the crappy box snes
Savio Dias
But the NTSC version SNES have many legendary games that are not available for the PAL version SNES (like Earthbound and Super Mario RPG) so even though the console is ugly the games are what are more important. (There is also some games that are only available in PAL region but those are not usually very good games). PAL games also had 50 Hz instead of 60 Hz and that usually made games run slower even though the graphics in some games looked much better in the PAL region.
Tom-Alexander Whyte It's much more beautiful than the US and Brazil versions, but the weak point is the european one can't play japanese cartridges even having the same size of the japanese sfc
The planet had the Super Famicom design, only North America got the boxy design. I'd like to have the American version sat next to my Super Nintendo.
Unfortunately here in Brazil, we got the north american design. But just 1 year ago i finally buy an original Super Famicom in the box. It was one of the most dreamed consoles by me and it was worth every penny!
I got a SNES at ten years old for xmas. Came with Street Fighter 2 Turbo. What an awesome system it was. I feel so old now in my 30's
holy shit...same age when i got it but with regular street fighter..ive never heard of anyone getting that combo..in my 30s so around same time i reckon..
Hey Johnny, I don't know if youll read this but after listening to AGG since it started,
Im so glad that you have came out your shell with the show because now you can express your real feelings about a game and can swear now :)
I like the way the show has gone, Keep it up!
Long live the Super Famicom and the Super Nintendo
Best Console of all time i know Amercia has the Purple Design that we have the inside of it its what makes it the best
I saved up all summer and bought the Super Famicom with Super Mario and F-Zero on launch day when I was 14. When the US Snes came out I had to uncase the cartridges to play them on it. Thankfully the Game Shark came out not long after which worked nicely as a cartridge adapter lol.
Same here in Brazil =) ~ bought the Famicom and the oficial release was the square one. Girl! My friends would not let me open their shells to play - so I had to commit a crime, I screwed the side of the cartridge inlet =( Can u believe?
I prefer the Super Famicon/PAL SNES design.
All I thought about when I saw the buttons was the candy Smarties; I am so glad I am not the only one, lol. The non-US console design def. had the right idea. Also, my first exp. in playing started with an aunt who rented the console and three games... for several months! The store finally just called and asked her to bring it in with a greatly reduced fee. I didn't get to play the SNES again for over a year. Great memories, guys!
We got the proper design, and colours in Europe. Strange how they change things for the US. The Genesis is called the Mega Drive here, just like in Japan.
Personally I think the super famicom looks more like an office appliance than it does a game console, but as for the Mega Drive, the only reason it was called the Genesis is because of a copyright from another company. Sega would have been sued if they kept the name.
I just imported a SFC (new?) and I am now happy. The scars of owning the free and purple box have finally healed. :)
In PAL territories. It was the Famicom design that was used
Japan ran NTSC. Basically everyone outside the US/Canada had the original design.
We had the "Famicom" style in Scotland, happy memories. I'm 28 and have a tune from super mario world as my ringtone. makes me happy with every phone call.
I grew up in America, and didn't even know what the Super Famicom looked like until probably the early 2000s when I saw it on the internet. But I'm glad we got the version we got. I think the American one looks way better, and the controller looked cooler too, I like the purple over the rainbow.
Great episode! I love the super famicom design over the wester design. I remember the christmas snes launched in 1991, the mall had an eb games mini store with a kiosk of super mario world which was playable for about 20 minutes. the line of people was WRAPPED around half the mall all day everyday!! I've never seen new console kiosk excitement like that since.
I prefer the SNES color scheme with a simpler two-tone approach. I do like the Super Famicom logo a lot, but the controller is a bit tacky looking with all the bright colors.
Same, I like the overall look of the Super Famicom, but I prefer the colors of the SNES.
Great video guys, I've still got very fond memories of getting a SNES for Christmas back in the early 90s. I got the Control Set with Final Fight, Super Mario Kart, Street Fighter II and a Asciiware SNES Advantage, good times. I agree that the Japanese SFC looked a lot nicer than the SNES. Not sure why they decided to go with a different case and purple buttons but at least it still played the same.
Growing up in England, I had no idea that the US Super Nintendo looked so strange. The European version looked like the Japanese version. So odd to discover years later what The US got.
I'm glad you brought this up. It's such a small footnote in history but the SNES design always bugged the hell out of me as the previews in magazines in 1989 were showing the beautiful Super Famicom. Even the multicolor logo was this awesome touch as it artistically made sense because the SNES was such a colorful system at the time. SNES reminded me of the Master System on steroids. Lance Barr who designed the case clarified that "The Super Famicom was maybe okay for the market in Japan. For the US, I felt that it was too soft and had no edge. We were always looking at future modular components (even the NES had a connector on the bottom), so you had to design with the idea of stacking on top of other components. I though the Super Famicom didn't look good when stacked and even by itself, had a kind of "bag of bread" look."
Ended up still being a very poor aesthetic choice. It also doesn't explain the bland muted colors. No offense to Lance but I trust Japanese designers over American ones 9 times out of 10 when it comes to these type of things. For example has anyone ever compared the artwork from the Japanese boxes to American ones? American ones are terrible across the board.
Here's an example of UN Squadron for U.S. www.mobygames.com/images/covers/l/236949-u-n-squadron-snes-front-cover.jpg
UN Squadron for Japan(renamed the proper title Area 88) otaku.com/files/images/fullsize/51334Y.JPG
Super Mario World US cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ymgqt/images/stencil/original/products/26439/35831/snes-super-mario-world-box__93325.1489073566.jpg?c=2&imbypass=on
Super Mario Word Japan www.supergabygames.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/SMW_SMB4-JAP_-_COVER.jpg
I had the EU version which had the same design as the Super Famicom :)
"don't you want to eat those fucking buttons?" -Rob Man 2011
I am from the UK, but I always preferred the look of the NTSC SNES/Cart design. Maybe it's a grass is always greener thing, haha. I have a modded SNES now with 50/60Hz and region switching, so I have the best of both these days. Amazing being able to play games like Earthbound from the actual cart
I cant describe what im feeling right now... So epic feelings... I ask myself, if our parents got so epic memories from their childhood. It was so epic times back then, and today im still lovin it, and the snes is still my personal favourite console. I had so much fund and epicness with it. Nice to see that others loved it like me :) we got the same feel
its funny how to other the system on the left is super famicom but here in australia that exact looking system is our super nintendo
I always thought the North American SNES had the better less kiddy controller design but thought the Super Famicom console looked cool.
16 bit era was my favorite system of all times. Still got them and play them. all snes, super famicom, and genesis are all top systems. The new systems today ps3, ps4, xbox 1 amazing graphics but a little to real and could encourage anger or even killing, hard to distinguish reality from fantasy for many. I,m a peacemaker and love alll, don,t support war or fighting, international peace and unity to all MANKIND.
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The game that gets me most angry is Smash Bros tho 😂
interesting... in Australia we got the rounded version but labeled Super NES... All that changed was the label. (as an Aussie, I like the purple on the US version. Grey on Grey isn't that nice)
I will always defend the NA SNES Design I love it! I love the purple Gray color scheme and the concave convex buttons. I prefer its look. I never remember people saying it was ugly back in 1991. I think that was a later thing when the internet came along and people saw the Super Famicom. It became cool to hate the design of the NA SNES. Not me I adore that purple gray design. I still love your look SNES
Only America got the purple redesign. Asia, Europe and Australia got the Super Famicom design 😊
I agree that the Super Famicom is the better looking console. It's sleeker and more elegant. But the design of the NA Super Nintendo is not horrible. I think just one small change to it would improve it quite a bit in the looks department...Change the color of the power and reset switches. I don't know why they went with purple, but it gives the SNES a very toy-like look. Change the switch color to red, black, or even dark grey, and it would look more serious. there is another video of an SNES that a guy painted gloss black and red that looks sexy as heck. Granted, Nintendo probably didn't want to color the SNES in black since its main competitor the Genesis was black, but hey what can you do?
The design change for the U.S was completely unnecessary and really mind-boggling. Why? Really just why? They kept the design of the Super Famicom here in Europe for the PAL SNES and I always thought it looked really nice.. and only years later did I actually see the U.S design for the first time. I was not even aware that there was a Super Nintendo that was not round without the multi-colored candy buttons, but instead blocky with purple buttons :O
Purple always was a go to color Japanese companies use to make their products look sleek at the shows. Back during the Sega-Snes console war when Sony was first revealing the PSX it was entirely purple including the controller. Which we all thought made it look a look completed and closer to a true release date than what Nintendo, and other companies had been promising us and constantly changing release dates. I remember the frustration of "Project Reality" then "Ultra 64" and finally Nintendo releasing the thing.
I love the button colours. When I was younger, I thought it was sweets embedded in the controller.
I've seen a Super Famicom before.. and my first impressions were, "That looks like a miniature printer", BUT, then I saw the Super Nintendo, and those purple buttons and the grey exterior gave it MUCH more appeal (It looked like it could do a bit more) It actually looked fun.
i remember my friend renting the Super Famicom about a week after it came out in Japan.we rented SMW and Ultraman.we were going crazy over the rotation and scalling effects.i still do to this day.
The European Snes is exactly like the Super Famicom :) except the name.
Shinu Nabil and the fact you can't use japanese cartridges on the european snes even haivng the same slot size
Стелла Кудряшов Was talking about the look, which was the subject on the video.
its actually not the same speed. it's a little faster in PAL for some games (super mario world) but still in 25FPS and most of the time they are slower. Sonic runs like turtle and it's unplayable by Japanese/American standards.
Yeah PAL may of had a slower refresh rate, but the resolution of PAL screens was far superior to NTSC. When we see old American tv recordings over here it looks like someone put vaseline on the camera lens...
@Matt Harris In the console games the 8 & 16 bit era, PAL's extra lines of resolution just ended up as black bars above and below a squished picture that was meant for NTSC.
i never even heard of snes until as late as 94. when i moved into a new house and the neighbors had it and donkey kong country. i never even got to play but i loved to watch. i begged my parents and got one for Christmas.... i played that thing right through the n64 days right up until i got a game boy advance. the controller cord is duck taped and my favorite games where the 3donkey kong countries, yoshis island, and turtles in time. i just remember playing it then watching that 70's show...
Super Famicom = Eve, SNES = Wall-E
I remember when I got my Super Famicom, it was a RELIGIOUS experience, my dad shelled out $400 plus shipping from JAPAN, I had it a week after release, and I got Super Mario Bros.4 (World) with it. As a matter of fact, I still have it, it's sitting right here beside me and it still works flawlessly. It's tied IMHO with my Turbo Duo for #1 console.
I'm surprised how strongly you both prefer the Super Famicom's design. I think it looks pretty bland compared to the SNES though I think the colors on the controller looks great.
ForeRunnerODST Growing up in Europe, with the Famicom model (bearing Super Nintendo as name) , I always thought it looked super cool, colorful buttons and a the cool logo with red, yellow, green and blue which the Famicom didnt have... My friends dad worked alot it the US and he brought home a US super Nintendo , and me and my frined thought it was some kind of cheap knockoff from China or something. some 3rd party ugly thing that played SNES games. didnt help we had to use a converter cartridge to play our games. Now it looks OK, but the famicom/PAL SNES looks way better
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lol . . yeah it just looked liked it belonged in the 8 bit era. . we were moving to more rounded shapes in the early 90s
I love both but, Gotta be Honest. Ever get home from Grocery shopping and pull out a smashed loaf a bread? That's the Super Famicom lol
i love the look of the super famicom, the snes looks lame.
I laughed hard when the beat up controller was shown with the wire pulled.. i can't remember how many times i opened up those controllers to get the wire back into place.. ahh memories
Thats not a super famicom... thats a european SNES....
Fabian Saam Try pausing the video at 3:40.. Now tell me again, what is it?
Captain Sherlock Okay thats weird... it looks to the tie like my super nintendo...
Yeah dude, I'm English and it's definitely a pal snes. Not arguing with the fact that in this video it appears to be a ntsc super famicom, just stating the fact that it is a pal snes here in England.
Darren Draper Its has super famicom written on it you dumbass. The european Super Nintendo kept the original design. Only the US had this craze of localizing everything.
Darren Draper Actually you said "I'm English and it's definitely a pal snes.", which is probably why you got that response.
It looks like that *everywhere* in the world except for the US, so there's no point in pointing out that it lookes like that in "insert country".. Bottom line is, what's in the video is a SuFami, nothing else.
I had the uk pal version but also bought the USA version and loved it so much more because of the ntsc scart output 17 percent faster and cleaner looking you really could tell the difference and I loved my USA SNES and the purple buttons felt different than the other versions great video
The SNES is much nicer looking than the Super Famicon.
You need your eyes rinsed. Besides ithat is not the super Famicon, that's the Pal Snes. The Pal Snes looks so much better, it looks modern even today. The american snes looks like a gray and purple brick. It's like comparing champange to carbonated piss.
Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I agree with LoDDEMOCIDE, the American SNES had such an iconic design.
The Super Famicom has a cooler looking controller, and the logo is better, but the console itself just seems so... boring and standard to me. Plain grey-on-grey colors, and a curved design that seems reminiscent of the Genesis/Mega Drive. It just seems so utilitarian to me, like a tape player, while the American SNES looks like a proper video game console.
I will say, though... I prefer the way the SFC carts looked, despite the lack of any end labels.
ZombifiedDuder I don't know, I think the boxy design of the american SNES looks about as ridiculous as the SuperGrafx. In many ways the two things look very similar (nevermind the difference in color). I like the simple design on the Super Famicom, it looks like something you'd play games on, rather than a weapon.
Tarte aux pommes What the hell is a burger eater?
MrGencyExit64 I think it's slang for "Dopey American"... but I could be wrong.
The PAL consoles look like the famicom which is what I have and it was the controller that made me fall in love with it along with super mario brothers. I went to my friend's house for a sleep over and we played it (this was in something like 2002) and I fell in love instantly! Then about 10 years later I finally got one for my birthday off ebay with mario world and allstars :D
omg i remember getting my SNES for christmas the year it came out from my grandpa, he was so happy to buy it for me. i got the mario paint edition while my cousin got the mario kart. i still have it to this day and love it!
a lot of memories about my childhood went through my mind as you were talking about the snes. thanks.
Haha, nice video. Good thing we got the same design as the Super Famicom back in Europe. The colored buttons matching the colored logo was genius.
That diamond layout for the 4 face buttons (where the distance between the left-most and right-most buttons is greater than the distance between the top-most and bottom-most buttons) on the SNES controller was amazing. Wish they'd go back to that design.
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Donkey Kong Country, Super Castlevania, and Super Mario Kart. I can't recall how many hours I put into those 3 games. Those were the DAYS!
Funny I liked the U.S. Grey purple machine, we got the super famicom body over here in Australia so I bought a U.S. Import snes just coz I thought it looked cool - and if you broke these little tabs inside the cartridge bay you could play super famicom games without an adapter - talk about being versatile - oh my gawd you got a purple Super Nintendo - that is soooo cool - my friends would say !! Yep I sure did
we got the super famicom design over here in the uk, loved those sweety coloured buttons.
I was probably too young to have any real release memories (born in 1990) but I have had a lot of memories with my SNES back when I was 5. The very first game I ever got my hands on at home was Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. I played the crap out of that game.
I also lived right across Willows Videos at the time and that's when we rented the N64 when it first came out and I was blown away, I mean I was like 7 at the time. In fact that Willows Videos is still there today. I still go there
This must sound so weird, but I'm so nostalgic for your older, badly lit videos.
My mother bought me a (PAL) snes a year ago and i was blown away by the gorgeous design. super mario world still seems surreal to me: the graphics and sounds and level designs
I think we got a box with big buttons because it was geared towards kids. So it has that simple fisher price look to it. Where in Japan they got a sleek futuristic looking system because most of the country plays Video Games and they see it as a serious piece of hardware.
the way you describe the super famicom controller looking like fun is how i felt about first seeing the xbox 360 controllers ...love the colorful designs on both of those controllers
I honestly didnt know before today that that blocky thing is the same as what we Europeans knew as the SNES. Granted we had to wait till 1992, but still... classic sleek console. The North merican SNES reminds me of how a car company stuck some brutal panels and overexaggerated body parts on an old GMC bus and called it Hummer H2, knowing it would appeal to the US market...
I like the ripples on the bottom of the US model but the sleek lines all over the Super Famicom are definitely nicer plus those awesome colored buttons. Its funny since inside the controller is raised letters with each hole labeled with the Super Famicom colors. Great system, haven't been excited about a Nintendo console since then.
Johnny, regarding the piece of tape on your SNES controller ~12 inches up from where it connects, i believe you originally had taped up the frayed wires at the base and the tape slide down (probably scotch tape which its adhesive can dry up quickly)
So it doesn't look like it was cut then taped up (that's what i think you guys were thinking while filming) I'm such a nerd for writing this O_o, but i love this review, keep em' coming!
My first exposure to super famicom was via a news piece from CNN tech reporting from CES with Miles Obrien. I knew that it would be repeated in the day so I sat there with my VCR recording to make sure I could catch it. I did and re-Ted clips of super Mario works and f-zero over and over again. I'm with you rob-man. The early days of super famicom are like religious lore and I will never forget living that moment.
that purple / grey pallet was a bold choice
the yellow, green, blue, red is pretty standard
i'm looking at this, honestly the words are being drowned out by me thinking 'i want that god damn sword and shield in the backround'
this video brings back such great memories
I prefer NA version may not be sleek but it is cool looking because you can see the depth perception with different main outside and inside being slightly wider
Great vid dude, I remember when I first got my snes with SF World Warrior. One of the few old school consoles I still play today since its so freaking awesome!
Loved the Gonzales-Gato at the end
Great episode! Keep doing episodes like this one!
I love this show!
I know I'm late to the party, but just bought a Super Famicom out of the blue because it's the system that my best friend and I saw in Nintendo Power and wanted. We talked about it forever, and he got the Super Nintendo (we are in the US) a year later. My parents thought video games were a waste of $$, so no system for me... but I could always go over his house and play it. Years later, I just decided to see what they are going for, and ended up buying one. I'm excited. Makes me want to start collecting video games again.
I'm glad we got the Super Famicom design in Europe, though we were permanently gimped with PAL and 1 to 2 year late releases. I am really attuned to the speed of games and music and every time I play american versions of games I loved back in the day it's weird hearing the music faster. I think the biggest difference is in NES Super Mario Bros.
*Or no release at all, we didn't get Earthbound or Chrono Trigger.
Oh yea we did. I saw a US Snes in friend's house once and asked him what a fuck is that, why it says Super Nintendo on it? And he said it's American Super Nintendo that his dad bring to him from US. I was like, thank god our version doesn't look ugly piece of shit like that. We had original design with Super Nintendo text on it. But everything else gaming related back then, we got screwed over and over, and some ways still do.
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Yeah, thank god we got the famicom design! :D
***** all of our games right up to and including PS2 were 17% slower and had horrible black borders
***** because PAL has a higher clock frequency and more lines than NTSC but all the games were made for NTSC, they had to be 'slowed' to compensate for the clock difference and borders put on to compensate for less lines. The only times we had a better version of games instead of much worse was on British games like Wipeout and on certain games on the sweet sweet Dreamcast that were 'Pal 60hz'.
You and James, the Angry Video Game Nerd, need to combine your collections and RULE THE WORLD!
Question, I bought a Super Famicom and I live in the US. It came with the official Nintendo adapter. The adapter says 100V. US is standard for 120V. Hooking the system to the outlet can it damage or harm the ac adapter? Any help is appreciated.
Young Johnny! Watching a bunch of SNES vids lately with the mini out
theres alot of video game chanels out there, but you guys are easily the best, goodshit guys keep em commin.
I remember my dad picking one of those in Hong Kong, and I got to play Super Mario on that too! Wow this brings back memories!
I grew up with the good ol' Super Nintendo design and to this day, I friggin love the ABXY button style and whenever I look back on it, I get a little tingle in my spine ^-^
You know I had an SNES.. and NEVER knew any history FAMICOM until well after.. It's sooo damn cool to see an actual Super Famicom.. Thank You!!!!
sure the famicom looks better but i like the snes cartridges allot more
The same thing happened to the R on my GBA SP from using the hand brake too much in "Mario Kart: Super Circuit".
I remember seeing the Super Famicom in the 90s when I visited Japan and Philippines and being confused. I bought Donkey Kong Country 2 Super Famicom version and the cartridge worked on my US SNES to my surprise.
I don`t know I kinda like the SNES design better. Could be that it`s connected to fond memories, but I also just feel like the color scheme is balanced better, and I just really like how the power and reset buttons just slide right along that ridge on the top of it.
I never knew up to a few years go that the american version was so boxy ! Im from europe so we got the sleek design with the super nintendo writing on it, awesome.
Also remember getting it the week it launched with my dad , driving from the store with a huge box on my lap, so great !
it was redesigned because people in japan were balancing drinks on the flat cartridge slot so o the USA version had a rounded bit there.
NOA changed the shape to prevent people from putting liquid containers on top of the console. This is why cartridge slot on the North American console was slight rounded. Furthermore, NOA still had a lingering perception that US gamers wouldn't buy a system that looked like a "toy", hence the elimination of the curved corners and colorful logos, to a more boxy shape and mono-chrome color palette. The only positive change was the concave B & A buttons, but otherwise the JPN version looks better.
We in the UK got the super famicon design. It's exactly the same accept it has super Nintendo entertainment system written on it. I do like the north America one though, the design reminds me of those squared 80s cars in - Planes Trains and Automobiles.
I just got a Wii Classic Controller shaped like a SNES controller as it appeared here in the UK. Most gorgeous thing I own. That and my gold zelda Wii Remote Plus.
I got the SNES for Christmas 1992. I was given the SNES, Super Mario World, Mario Paint, Street Fighter 2, Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past (abbreviating it cheapens the game) and the Super Scope 6 bundle. I love this system, hands down the greatest ever, I firmly believe people still follow Nintendo because of this. Also, we have the Playstation because of this. It was supposed to be an add-on for the SNES like the Sega CD was. This is quite possibly the best console ever.
my snes controller is frayed just like yours. my 3 go to snes games were super mario, donkey kong country and super street fighter 2. some real nice memories there.
The pulled out first control the one guy talked about was a design flaw in early controllers the clamp would break away. I had the same problem when I bought my first Snes I used inheritance from my grandmother to buy it. I called Nintendo on it and they replaced it with fixed version. That first Snes was stolen.
Now i play Snes games on my computer using Zsnes and ROM downloads.
Speaking as someone from the UK, I agree 100%! In PAL territories we had the Super Fami design, which to my five year old mind was amazing; everything about it just emphasized 'fun', and it remains my favourite system design (along with the Mega Drive model 1) to this day.
When I saw the US SNES design years later, I was all "...the hell did they do!? o_o"