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SUPER NINTENDO
ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
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The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (Super Famicom in
Japan) was Nintendo's second home console, following the
Nintendo Entertainment System (often abbreviated to NES,
released as the Famicom in Japan). After its release in
Japan on November 21, 1990 the Super Famicom easily outsold
its chief rival, the Mega Drive, and Nintendo retained
control over approximately 80% of the Japanese console
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On August 13, 1991, Nintendo released the Super Famicom in
North America with a new redesigned case as the Super
Nintendo Entertainment System (North American package
included the game Super Mario World). Though
Nintendo's Japanese market instant dominance was not
repeated in the American and European markets, by 1994,
after Sega's pulling out of the market, SNES has managed to
achieve market leadership in Europe and U. S. By 1996, the
16-bit era of gaming had ended, and a new generation of
consoles, including Nintendo's own Nintendo 64, caused the
popularity of the SNES to wane. Nintendo of America ceased
production of the SNES in 1999. In Japan, the Super Famicom
continued to be produced until September 2003 (also some new
games were produced until the year 2000).
The Super Nintendo is considered by many gamers as the
Golden Era of gaming, when games were centered on gameplay,
and not on a constant race after more and more powerful
graphics.
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| The Sufami Turbo is a deck enhancer for the
Super Nintendo. This device, made by Bandai, inserts
into the SNES deck, and has two smaller ports on top
to accept special small Sufami Turbo cartridges. At
least one SNES Sailormoon game - Bishoujo Senshi
Sailormoon: Sailor Stars Fuwa Fuwa Panic 2 was
released also on Sufami Turbo cartridge. If I am not
wrong, there are no differences from original SNES
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There are ten Sailormoon SNES games in total, belonging to
different genres. One of them (Panic in Nakayoshi World)
belongs to "Sailormoon in Nakayoshi World" group (other two are
Nakayoshi to Issho for NES and Welcome Nakayoshi
Park for Game Boy).
As far as I know, three SNES Sailormoon games were
fan-translated from Japanese to English. The importance of
these translations is difficult to overestimate: if not
translated, Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon: Another Story
for SNES, being probably the most widely known Sailormoon
game now, would never gain its current popularity in
English-speaking world. Other two fan-translated games are
Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon R and Panic in
Nakayoshi World. More detailed information about these
translations can be found in games' respective articles.
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One of many SNES emulators, that works fine with all ten
SNES Sailormoon games, is Snes9X that can be found at
http://www.snes9x.com
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