Platform archive · Nintendo
SNES
Super Famicom launched in Japan a year before its North American counterpart. Its controller added shoulder buttons and four face buttons, a layout that became a long-lived industry standard.
Hardware launch era1990
Physical games2,071
Documented packages2,071
Hardware variants4
NintendoLaunch information
The platform’s opening chapter
- Hardware era
- 1990
- Launch region
- Japan
- Primary physical format
- Cartridge
- First documented physical release
- November 21, 1990
- Latest documented physical release
- December 1, 2000
- Special editions and variants
- 0
Hardware collector index
Colors, revisions, and special editions
Best-known releases
Platform-defining collector highlights
March 22, 1996
'96 Zenkoku Koukou Soccer Senshuken
March 12, 1993
2020 Super Baseball
June 19, 1994
3 Ninjas Kick Back
November 1, 1994
3-jigen Kakutou Ballz
December 22, 1995
3x3 Eyes - Juuma Houkan
July 28, 1992
3x3 Eyes - Seima Kourinden
July 14, 1995
4-nin Shougi
December 21, 1992
46 Okunen Monogatari - Harukanaru Eden e
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