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Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1991)

  • Model Number: SNS-001
  • Released: August 23, 1991
  • Discontinued: circa 1997
  • CPU: Ricoh 5A22 (3.58 MHz)
  • RAM: 128 KB

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System was released in Japan in 1990, and elsewhere in 1991. The console was Nintendo's first 16-bit console and as a result has higher graphical capabilities than its predecessor.


New-Style SNES (1997)

  • Model Number: SNS-101
  • Released: October 1997
  • Discontinued: 1999
  • CPU: Ricoh 5A22 (3.58 MHz)
  • RAM: 128 KB

In 1997, a cost-reduced redesign of the SNES was released, which consolidates the console's hardware into a single chip. However, this redesign removes the console's capability to output in RGB or S-Video, though this can be restored through modding.