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Nintendo · Console family

Super Nintendo

A refined 16-bit console remembered for expressive sound, color, and all-time-great games.

Documented hardware recordA source-linked factual history appears below. Undocumented development, regional, and package details are left unclaimed.

Nintendo’s second major home console combined capable base hardware with enhancement chips inside select cartridges. Its role-playing games, platformers, and Mode 7 effects defined the 16-bit era.

Released
1991 · Exact day not documented
Platform / family
Fourth generation
Format / type
Cartridge
Region
North America
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Documented item history

Release and collector context

Source-linked facts

Super Nintendo is a Nintendo hardware family documented for North America, with a release recorded as 1991 (the exact day and month are not documented). The catalog identifies it as Fourth generation hardware using Cartridge. PLAYBACK connects 4 documented hardware variants to this family, including North American SNES, PAL SNES, Hyundai Super Comboy, New-Style SNES / SNES Jr..

Research status
Structured source record
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Release context

The documented release is 1991 (the exact day and month are not documented) for North America on Fourth generation. Date precision is preserved exactly: the archive does not invent a day when the source records only a month or year.

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Regional differences

This record is scoped to North America. The linked structured source does not document a separate regional title or package difference, so PLAYBACK does not infer one.

03

Physical packaging

The physical format is documented as Cartridge. The current structured source does not enumerate every insert, manual, sleeve, or bonus item, so no unverified contents are claimed.

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Editions and revisions

4 hardware configurations are linked to this family: North American SNES, PAL SNES, Hyundai Super Comboy, New-Style SNES / SNES Jr..

Research sources

  1. commons.wikimedia.org — catalog record ↗