Tag: snes
Void in life filled by Mario toys
It’s OK. This makes everything OK. No matter how much you have spent on Sonic The Hedgehog plushes and Transformers action figures over the last 10 years, there is always someone out there who is in significantly deeper. Whoever owns this is in over their head. There is no way back to normal society from here.
This little lot is what you would generously describe as “quite a few” Nintendo toys. There would appear to be some duplicates in the collection, but that just adds to the sense of deep, tragic waste of money and a life.
I mustn’t laugh too much. If you changed…
Man "portablizes" Super Nintendo
It’s a beautiful piece. The cheap case gives it a pleasingly utilitarian early-1990s design appearance, with simplistic buttons that you could easily believe Nintendo would’ve chucked into a handheld SNES – had it bothered to make one back in the day. And look at that chunky power button. Imagine the satisfying click it makes.
The poor guy started the portable SNES project last Christmas and eventually finished it last week. Here’s how it turned out.
The chap used an off-the-shelf plastic case to whack most of the SNES bits in…
Japanese Club Nintendo members make us green with envy over their Super Famicom controllers
Oh man! This is yet another reason to rack up in our massive list of Why We Should Move To Japan.
The Japanese members of Club Nintendo are getting a little treat this month, SNES (or Super Famicom) controllers! It’s for recreating those nostalgic moments when playing Virtual Console games like Street Fighter II and…
Handheld wooden SNES – the retro gamer's dream
Forget the Wii, Nintendo’s finest hour was surely the Super Nintendo. The Mega Drive might well have shifted more units, but the SNES had the games – Super Tennis, Super Mario Kart, Streetfighter II and 3D fest that was Starfox (although let’s be honest, that wasn’t great).
UPDATE: New Windows Vista hardware requirements – one Super Nintendo from 1992
We have no idea of the factual correctness of this claim, but it would appear a Tokyo game shop is currently featuring a SNES running a version of Windows Vista.
Judging by the Toshiba-branded cart the console’s packing…
