Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (often abbreviated to SNES) is a video game console created by Nintendo. It was far superior to the original NES and rivaled in performance to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. It had many great-quality games, including Super Mario World, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, and Super Mario All-Stars. Along with those titles came perhaps the less popular Mario Paint.

The time of the SNES is viewed by some "the golden age of gaming". It stopped being produced in 1999, but the Famicom model was made until 2003. New games were made until 2000. It remained popular throughout the 32/64 bit era. There was also an add-on planned for it called the SNES CD. Nintendo worked with Sony to create this. Unfortunetly Nintendo's cooperations with Sony crumbled so the SNES CD add-on was aborted. It's unknown if there were any Mario games for the aborted add-on.

The SNES was re-released as the SNES 2, being released at the same time and had the same RF chip to the Nintendo 64. Also it was smaller and lacked the eject button.

Super Famicom
The SNES was based on a Japanese console called the Super Famicom. Famicom was a portmanteau of Family and Computer. There are obvious performance and aesthetic differences between the two consoles. It was re-released as a Super Famicom Jr., matching a USA SNES 2, but obviously, with the same differences as the SNES 1 and Super Famicom had.

Trivia

 * The PAL SNES (pictured) is a mix between the Super Famicom and the USA SNES, keeping the design of the Super Famicom, but keeping the name from the USA version.
 * The SNES is used as the setting for the microgame "Super Nostalgic Entertainment System" in WarioWare: Smooth Moves.

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