Assuming you can actually purchase one when it launches this September 29th, the Super Nintendo Classic is a faithful, tiny tribute to Nintendo’s early ‘90s 16-bit gaming console. Sure, it’s mostly just a little plastic grey box with purple buttons (or not, depending on the part of the world you grew up in) but the magic it has inside of it will bring back a million magical gaming memories.
While the form factor of the console itself is adorable, it’s the games lineup that you’re obviously here for, and the SNES Classic comes with an impeccably strong roster of masterpieces. From Super Mario World to Contra III and Donkey Kong Country, there legitimately isn’t a weak game in the entire collection. The NES Classic may have had nine more games, but it also had stuff like Ice Climbers - a game about jumping where the characters are bad at jumping - so I’ll gladly take quality over quantity here. Legends like A Link to the Past, Final Fantasy III and Earthbound will take you dozens of hours to complete in their entirety and all of them still hold up today. This is a fantastic collection of games and seeing them all together in one place will make you truly appreciate how special the Super Nintendo was.
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While the form factor of the console itself is adorable, it’s the games lineup that you’re obviously here for, and the SNES Classic comes with an impeccably strong roster of masterpieces. From Super Mario World to Contra III and Donkey Kong Country, there legitimately isn’t a weak game in the entire collection. The NES Classic may have had nine more games, but it also had stuff like Ice Climbers - a game about jumping where the characters are bad at jumping - so I’ll gladly take quality over quantity here. Legends like A Link to the Past, Final Fantasy III and Earthbound will take you dozens of hours to complete in their entirety and all of them still hold up today. This is a fantastic collection of games and seeing them all together in one place will make you truly appreciate how special the Super Nintendo was.
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