Super Nintendo (Super Famicom) - Fourth VideoGame Generation Recap - Adam Koralik 

The Super Famicom still looks futuristic. Its like an 80s synthpop song that still sounds beautiful, slick and modern. The american SNES looks like my dads beloved 87 Oldsmobile.

That's where my drink goes!

Best console of all time IMO, and also IMO the best console generation. The SNES had Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Final Fantasy, etc. while Genesis had Sonic, Phantasy Star, Streets of Rage, Gunstar Heroes, etc. Even the Neo Geo and TG16 had some awesome games! Long live 16-bit!

Why don't you have more subscribers? You make good videos.

I know this is an older video but I just found it and I love how your genuine enthusiasm for the console shows throughout the entire video.

The soda thing definitely played a part in it. My uncle worked at a Nintendo repair shop and they had a pile just for consoles covered in soda and food. If you ever sat on the floor or a couch with your NES next to you, you would see how good of a drink table it would make.

wow internet on genesis and super nintendo that just blew my mind

You really bought a Satellaview just for this video? That's costs almost 20.000 ienes here in Japan! Well... video liked.

Upon further research I discovered that the SNES was launched in Australia in 1992, not 1994. Mattel handled distribution (as they had with the NES in PAL regions) until 1994 when Nintendo Australia was established, they took over from there. Just thought I'd add that.

Definitely the nostalgic console for me, Link To the Past, Mario World, Street Fighter II Turbo, Toy Story, Aladdin, Super Punch Out, Mario Kart...ahhhh memories

My SNES provided me with sooo many hours of fun! Loved Super Mario World and All Stars. Got TMNT4 for my bday and played it so much. The mode 7 made the hoverboard stage way better than the arcade plus the Shredder fight before getting sent back in time was a very fun fight not in the arcade. Made better sense than getting zapped in time in the sewer. Yoshi's Island was another great game made possible by Super. FX2. Mario RPG was my introduction to JRPGs and was so fun! Street Fighter ALPHA 2 was another game I played to death. Great day was when I picked up Zelda for $15 new at Wal-Mart. I also had the Super Game Boy. Loved it and lots of use of it. The one SGB designated title I had was Mega Man 5. A great Mega Man title that gave us a lot of new stuff like the Stardroids and the Mega Arm. Something I had to protect my games were these clear blue cases my mom bought from the clearance bin at Wal-Mart. They had the SNES logo foil stamped in blue.

as soon as you said "Mario Is Missing" I felt so bad for you...

I actually knew some kids that put their drinks on top of their PS2s and original playstations. Thats why those systems ended up sticky and shorted out. I was the poor kid so when i got the super Nintendo from the thrift store in '97, i took care of it like i do with my HD tvs today. Now my prized possessions are my Dreamcast and Original Xbox. Even though I use my Halo edition 360 as my main source of media streeming device. All systems in great condition.

Star Fox was actually called Lylat Wars in Australia and Europe. Not sure if anyone else has pointed it out yet, but I thought I better chip in. Great video as always.

Even though these videos are older, I still just enjoy re watching them. Thanks again for making them.

I remember going to Target with my mom to get Star Fox and Ending up picking Mario is Missing.... Oh the disappointment

I always wondered the same thing as well about "why not a Mega Game Gear?" I only recently found out the Genesis was not capable of running it because they made one upgrade to game gear from a master system...a higher color palette, higher than the Genesis in fact. If there were a work around in a cartridge adapter, it probably would have been cost prohibitive.

2:42 You haven't met some people that I know.

I always wondered about these purple buttons on the american SNES controller, because (at least in my mind) there was always this conection between the early Super Nintendo Games and the colours on the controller. Green, Red, Yellow, Blue Yoshis, Mario with a red cap, blue overall, yellow cape (on a green Yoshi). Link wearing a green, blue or red coat in Zelda-ALTTP, F-Zero with a gold, pink, green and blue hovercars.

Adam I swear man your memories about these systems are very similar to my own. This SNES vs Genesis will always be my GM favorite console war. I was always in the SEGA camp too in fact I was that one kid that had a Saturn. I remember seeing it in Toy R Us and I begged my mom to get it for me she did of course but as a Christmas present. Ahh the memories

SuPeR Nintendo is Best video game console all time.

I was hoping at the end of the video he was going to pretend to be thirsty and put a can of soda on the Super Nintendo.

this is is awesome. love your videos they bring me back to my childhood, and information wise your on point. keep up the good work.

Your videos are great! I've recently started collecting old games I lost over the years, remember liking or that I know are desirable. I'm gonna get Diddy Kong's Quest tomorrow since you speak so highly of it and I've never played it.

Man, I had a Nintendo Power subscription when the first DKC came out and they sent me a promo VHS out of the blue. I got so hyped over it I sold my whole SNES collection (including FF6, Chrono Trigger, Mario Paint, Super Star Wars and a bunch more) to Funcoland to buy that game and the strategy guide. Beat at 101% in like 24 hours. Greatest disappointment of my young life. Was a very good lesson about getting on the hype train but at such a price... ;________; So, yeah. I can't even look at a DKC game without my stomach turning.

Gotta love it when people say "Diddy Kong's Quest" When it's actually Diddy's Kong Quest. What a punny title.

I do love this video series especially for younger people like me. I grew up with the Nintendo Gamecube being the newest console and I do love gaming history and this channel is definitely the very best place to learn everything about gaming history! Keep the good work up man! I really appreciate it! Greetings from Germany :p

As usual Adam, it was very fun to watch and very informative. It reminds me when I was young and the only time I was seeing my cousins was during the christmas time. We never had real activity together other than playing with the amazing SNES, oh boy, I can already feel the nostalgia. Trying to get the first level when you are 6-7 years old was quite an exploit back then.

You forgot about killer instinct. It first came out on the Super Nintendo. It's awesome!!!!!

Why does everyone say "Diddy Kong's Quest" when the game is "Diddy's Kong Quest" (a pun on conquest)?

Hey Adam, I'm a huge fan. Thanks for all these console retrospectives and I really enjoy your discussions! To be honest I accidentally watched your why the Nintendo consoles is never powerful video and I've been watching your videos since then. You literally got me back into gaming after a nasty break up LOL. Anyway thanks again and keep up the awesome work!

New subscriber. I just want you to know that I love your videos. I appreciate the time you put into making them for us to enjoy. Keep up the good work!

Australia always got screwed. Oh there was an F-Zero game on Nintendo 64?! Yeah of course we never got it.

Great video Adam! I'm in the process of making a home made DVD collection of your reviews to watch on TV. Yeah, that's how fucking awesome I think you are. But just to clarify some things, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System came in Australia in July of 1992 (not 1994). And the Genesis (Mega Drive) couldn't support Game Gear software because the Game Gear had a higher colour pallette than the Mega Drive Genesis and the Mega Drive Genesis could only display a total of 64 colours on screen. But as you know they made the Genesis backwards compatible with the Master System software instead and also the Game Gear could support Master System software aswell via a converter.

Really love your videos. When I was a kid I had a master system for the game gear so I could play my master system games on it. That was in the U.K.

Nice to see that you have painters tape end lables! That video made my shelf look empty! Haha great video adam! Look forward to more!

Hey Adam, how do you actually finance your collecting?

1994? what the hell nintendo. What did we Australians do to you

My first system was a Super NES, so this was a great video to watch. I remember my 6th birthday, walking into my bedroom and seeing the console hooked up to my TV, with a little bow on it. I think I played through Super Mario World all the way through before I actually put it down for a second. Great memories brought back by a great video, thanks Adam. ^_^

Back when I was in high school, N64 was already out and finding SNES games in Blockbuster and pawn shops for dirt cheap was easy. There was a guy that would buy them and play them, then offer to sell them to me for cheap. He was making a profit. He sold me Chrono Trigger and Earthbound for $25....combined. I thought that was kind of cheap and I ask him “so why did you sell those games to me for so cheap?”...He said “oh I still made $15 off them, I paid $5 each for them”....Now, imagine getting either one of those games now for $5 for either of those games. Sadly, I didn’t hold onto those games for too long myself...back then, we didn’t know those games were going to be worth what they are now....

I like the NA snes design, not better than the original but rather cool in a odd way. The carts are much better however: the high point is definitely the spine labels which are not on the super famicom or Pal carts. That was annoying.

2:40 Nintendo always thinks people are *REALLY* stupid

I love Chicago! I visit every year now for ColdWaves Festival. You guys have sooo much good food / music.

Hi Adam I just wanted to say I like your videos and Its nice to see take a trip down memory lane and learn something new at the same time id like to get my hands on some older consoles good work keep doing what you do

Yes I remember being so jaleous of europeans that could accually drink coke while playing and I couldn't. I remember being so thursty while playing my snes and there is nothing i could do. What a let down nintendo.

As a kid, I never owned the SNES since I was born near the end of the 20th century. In a way, I wanted one mostly for Super Mario World. It was the first Nintendo game that made me love Nintendo, and persuaded me to own this console. Unfortunately, me being the four year old, I couldn't remember what the system called was then. All I remembered fondly was the gameplay, and the iconic tunes lol. Luckily, got a N64 w/ some games from GameStop back in the day. Quick question, is it worth purchasing the *New* 3DS XL that just came out recently. I've had my DS Lite since 07, and I'm not too sure if it is worth the purchase (PC gamer here..) Lastly, are you able to do a recap video of the handhelds that came out from the previous generations? It'd be awesome.

You and Rich again, nice. It's like watching a crossover from my two favorite TV shows.

I love this series you got going on. Feels like i'm watching episodes of a show.

I just found a great looking one chip SNES. Didn't work. Opened it up and it was full of sticky dried brown liquid. Parts had corroded. Why people do the things they do I don't know but how do you spill soda in your SNES... WTF.

Japanese/European Super Nintendo is still the best looking game console of all time. Timeless machine, well designed and shaped.

It's also good to note the Super Mario World version that's bundled with All Stars is the best version you can get on the SNES. Luigi gets his own sprite and jump. I too fell for the Mario is Missing, but it's probably where I learned to love Luigi

Finally! It's always nice to see a new generation recap video.

***** Sorry, what?

ummmm....... Chrono Trigger?

Thanks for the info on the internet capability! I don't think anyone else has gone into the level of depth that you did about that feature.

Nice video! Just recently I got my friend an NES for his birthday, as we both enjoy modern and retro gaming.

Why is it that pewdiepie makes shitty vids and has like 30 million subs and you make good vids and have 50,000. Faith in humanity destroyed

I still can not believe how ugly the US SNES is. It's like the SNES PAL/Super Famicom is one of the most beautiful consoles ever and the US version is one of the ugliest. Smh

You finally got your Super Famicom! This is an awesome video.

@AdamKoralik I had no idea you knew Rich from review tech man! Awesome I enjoyed your guys' chat on his channel and of course enjoy everything on your channel especially your generation recaps. Very entertaining and informative, lots of stuff I never knew anything about. Love the vids man.

Hey Adam, I live in Australia and got my Super Nintendo in 1992, we’re not that backward lol. Loved it and played it to death. Great videos by the way!

To understand Toy Story's rights for development, we must get to development of "Mickey Mania". Disney wanted a game to celebrate Mickey's 65th birthday, so they asked to Traveller's Tales to make a game for the Sega Genesis, since their team was known for good work on the hardware. Later, the game was ported by a single guy for the SNES. (that's a reason for the Genesis version having more levels, since some of them was not feasible in the Nintendo hardaware without more time of develpment) After the success of Mickey Mania, they planned a sequel. But with the Toy Story movie in the horizon, Disney canceled the sequel so that Traveller's Tales could instead focus on developing a game based on the film. Again, the SNES was a port, missing some levels and getting a really small resolution for the first-person level.

Great video Adam! I love this series....im waiting anxiously for the Neo Geo recap. Ive been waiting for you to do a vid on it since you started this series

This was my very first console and I still love it. Only have 6 games for it though. And half of those I never had as a kid.

That Mario’s Missing story is pretty heartbreaking..

Very cool video I love both systems and now seeking to have them again soon.

Awesome video as always. I love the SNES and always look forward to your videos

13:30 Here in the UK we had to have a far less elegant solution for playing import games using an adaptor with 2 cartridge slots on it. One in the top for the import cartridge and one in the back for a UK cartridge for it to read the region chip of. It was wobbly as hell.

Was looking forward to this one Adam, good coverage. Still my all time favourite system. The British PAL one, letterbox and 17.5% slower and all. Loved it.

I watching all your recap videos again and I'm loving this and the megadrive ones, I feel "at home", that's my "native generation", if that makes any sense. my first console was atari2600, I had a nes, judging by age I should say I'm from the late stage of atari2600 and nes is my native generation, but I feel that the 90s snes vs megadrive console wars was "the main event", I was old enough to fully enjoy it but young enough to still see it with some kind of magical awe. the ps1 and n64 generation happened "too fast" or I already was big enough that it didn't have the "magic of childhood", when people talk about their childhood memories with ps1 (or even ps2!!!) I'm like "huh?? what???? but childhood is nes and snes!!, ps1 and ps2 are new!"). what I mean by "too fast" is that when gamecube and ps2 came out I was like "huh? what? but ps1 and n64 are new! they just came out last year!!...huh? it's been like 5 years already? huh??". oh, I haven't felt the "magic" in years, the last two console generations are "meh", I think ps2 and dreamcast were the last "real consoles". I think everybody has a "native generation", the one that was the "main one" for them at a certain age.

SNES is my favorite console. So many absolute classics. It was a fun time growing up with the Sega vs. Nintendo wars. I got the console a Christmas mainly because of of Street Fighter 2, which is awesome, but my parents were nice enough to also include a game that I did not ask for and did not know about at the time: Super Mario Kart. Super Mario Kart has since become my favorite game of all time.

That's awesome my first console and game that I ever played were the SNES and Super Mario World too. AdamKoralik

My favorite console of all time. And A Link to the Past is my fav game of all time. Great video.

Adam another great vid, looking forward to the all mighty NEO GEO AES next.

Great video. Super metroid is one of my favorite games. Found a copy three weeks ago at a pawn shop for $7.

Watching in 2017 and this is still good

Great videos man! love this series!

Thanks for showing us the Satellaview, can't have been cheap also another excellent video.

I'm glad you mentioned the Toy Story game, that was one of my favorites as a kid. Turtles in Time is still a favorite to this day.

My favorite console of all time. Nice job with the video.

Enjoying the series so far Adam! Interesting add on attached to the famicom. Looking forward to the snes cd/PSX :-)

I really like your videos! I moved to PC gaming a while ago, and would never go back because I love the freedom and flexibility inherent to the PC platform but I like your videos anyway because consoles are a hugely important part of gaming history.

Great video man I still have my Super Nintendo I still play it to this day

Love your videos Adam, one thing I'd like to see is game play clips in the corner so I can see what the game you're talking about looks like. Also I hated super Mario kart as well, probably because I was into road rash at the time and that was always more fun to me

These gaming Videos are very educational. Good video this was a awesome Console and I can remember playing it when I was younger I mostly played super Mario world,some wrestler game and donkey Kong 2. I Soo regret selling the super Nintendo if I could go back I would have never let it happen.

Man your story about Mario's missing. Loved it.

Zombies Are My Neighbors, Shadowrun, Zelda, SMW / All-Stars and DKC (1 for nostalgia, 2 for the better game) are my SNES favs. Much like my Starflight top 5 favorite Genesis games pick, I've only met 1 other person to put Shadowrun in a top SNES games list. As an 8 year old, the open world of Shadowrun was mind-blowing.

Adam young lad, I'm going to use the first five seconds of your videos as my ring tone. Great attitude man. 😉😁👍

10:24, that's pretty awesome. My first console ever was the precious Sega Dreamcast that, thanks to you, looks absolutely beautiful through VGA. :)

I got so excited for 7 year old you while you were talking about seeing a new Mario game at Best Buy, thinking "oh it's gonna be RPG Seven Stars!", and then fart, Mario is Missing

YEah.. Me and my brother both had the Genesis and the SNES. We like both of them and played the hell out of both consoles. I, myself, played Street of Range 2 a lot. It's actually my favorite on the Genesis... and still is to this day.

Gotta love this system, it still has the best games in my opinion. Nice video again, Adam, even though I never got the love for DKC2 myself. To be honest, I never even managed to get past world1 there, DKC1 and 3 on the other hand were just too amazing for me.

Great video Adam as always.

My favorite system of all time. Great vid man. I started building an SNES collection of years ago. I've picked up some of those games over time, including Super Mario All stars:Super Mario World, Star Fox, and Might Morphin' Power Rangers. I might have to look into that Michael Jordan game.

I loved the SNES, I remember my brother getting one and I ended up getting a Sega Genesis. I loved them both! I also really enjoy these retrospective videos and hope you go back even to the 3rd generation.

The soda can story is sorta true. I've been to my local Nintendo licensed repair center in my youth and I vividly remember seeing workers in the back cleaning off the sticky soda and sugary milk (from bowls of cereal) from many NES motherboards. That and NOA not being partial to the Super Famicom design is why they redesigned the Super Nintendo.

I had “Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City.” I never beat it, but it was actually a solid game.

Basically what you described with what people do with the controllers, (take the guts out of SNES and put in SFC) is what the Euro/Aus Controller is. A SFC controller with a long cord and Super Nintendo Branding.

great vid as always Adam.

Very good video,as always adam good job