The SNES Control Deck (Model SNS - 101) Erin Plays 

I bought one of these without a game included in 1998 for $30. I'm 100% sure. I also bought mine just to have it, as I already had an original SNES. Genesis 3's were $30 by this time, and I wish I had bought one of those, too. I did get a $30 Model 2 Sega CD on clearance at a KayBee store in early 97ish though, despite already owning one. lol Man, I miss the days of cheap last-gen systems!

Grew up on killer instinct love that black cart!

I’ll never forget going to Walmart with my parents in 97. I was 5 years old at the time. Behind the glass was a Suoer Nintendo Junior bundled with Yoshi’s island. My mom asked my dad to buy it for me and he did. A great memory

Hey Erin, I purchased four of these units (still own them) from Target near the end of the SNES JR. life span. These systems were Target exclusives with Zelda, the Link to the Past packed in. The best part is, I only paid $34.99 per system. I still have my receipts as proof!!! Awesome video and looking forward to many more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Super Nintendo rules! One of the best consoles I owned!

It's biggest advantage over the SNES Classic is that you can easily play more than 21 games. Kinda miss playing with that much super power!

I love the mini more than the original model. Fits perfectly on my desk with my 13 inch CRT that i love playing with.

I remember seeing one in a glass case at Toys r Us and I said to my friend “That’s a Super Nintendo?!”. I had just gotten the Super NES Killer Instinct Set probably a year before, when the N64 first came out, and she had the Super NES Donkey Kong Set. I didn’t really know about it or own one until years later when I got more into video games.

I got one of these on christmas of 1997 after my brothers original SNES stopped working. It definitely came with a controller that had an embossed nintendo logo instead of the printed super nintendo logo.

I never Knew there was an actual difference between these versions.I've always had the "Mini" version but never Knew It was known as a Jr.I still play It to this day and I'm also surprised its still alive and kicking.Great video Erin!

I love how it’s still pretty old, but your original is all discolored, while the Jr is still fine.

The only Super Nintendo I had was that one, and I never could figure out what it was referred to. Tonight, it was irking me so I went in search and found information, and here I am! I don't think I ever had anyone challenge me on it, but we thought it was a newer version of the Super Nintendo and just went with that. I had the Kirby All Stars package. Good times!

I had that model. It was the one my sister and I got for Christmas and was my first gaming experience.

The remolded controller not only has different moldings on the front and back shell, it’s also got way better, more durable contact pads.

Both my Original Snes and my Original NES still both work...amazing how reliable they were :)

I've never seen these before RU-vid. I grew up with the original model NES, and didn't know about the top loader until AVGN, and that sounded more convenient. I didn't know about this model SNES, probably since it came out in the late 90's. The only classic console I had different versions of was the Sega Genesis, I think I've owned every model made by Sega, even the Nomad handheld that ate AA batteries for breakfast. But awesome video to showcase it, and find what history is out there!

My friends grandpa had one of these with lots of games haha. Very nostalgic playing Kirby 3 and donkey Kong.

my dad made an arcade system in our small city using this model we have like 20 units of it, back in da good old days

I didn't know these even existed until many years later when I started getting into retro gaming again. I did have the NES toploader, though, because that was the first NES I owned (and it still works perfectly). I wonder if Nintendo will ever release classic editions of the toploader and this SNES mini? Probably not but I can dream.

I don't ever recall seeing this snes advertised in print or commercials, although it's possible that it was. I only became of this version a few years ago. It's possible that it wasn't heavily advertised because the snes had a long lifespan, almost ten years. And games were still being sold at retail for it in the early 2000's. It's definitely one of the greatest consoles of all time. I'm glad you still have yours.

That was the only SNES I ever had, I got it in spring of 1998 right after my birthday

I had the original model growing up and I played it so much that I killed it. One day it wouldn't turn on. I was sad that I was no longer able to play it anymore. I think it was a week later my Dad came home with the model 2 SNES. I was confused at first because it didn't look like a SNES but it played SNES games and needless to say I was over the moon. Dad came in with a huge save for me. Awesome memory.

Growing up, we had both the SNES and the Sega Genesis in my home. At about 19 and on my own, I saw the smaller SNES 2 at Toys R Us. Already owned an N64 and a PS1 by now, but was STILL EXCITED! Still have my SNES 2 to this day, with the original box. I think it was about 49.99 at the time.

Loved the video 😊

Never had one but I remember seeing one at Target that came with Super Mario RPG in the late 90s.

I will never forget the Christmas when I got this console. It was my first one ever and since then, I love video games!

I bought one of these in 2003 from Rhino Video Games for $20. It didn't have an RF switch on the back like the original SNES, so I had to use the component cables to attach it to my VCR. I had just seen "The Ring" and tried to record my Mario Paint drawings on tapes so I could print them out like a scene from that movie. The SNS-101 was also easier to hold when using the Game Boy Camera with a Super Game Boy.

I bought this today from ebay, and all I can say is I'm relieved

Thanks for showcasing Nintendo's hidden gems! Great video!!!

Nintendo also did the same with the DS Lite from the original chunkier model. Loved the vid, awesome stuff Erin! 👍🏻 Would like to get my hands on one of these to finish off my SNES console selection - they’re not widely available here in England though! ☹️

I had both at some point in the era. I recognize the later model was different, but never thought too much of changes. Or unaware. It was a neat own.

I remember seeing those in toy stores back in the late 90's. I never bought one, but I most certainly can recall seeing them on display in all sorts of stores.

When I was a kid, back in early 90's me and my friends had the regular Super Nintendo and never saw this mini model until I start collecting back in 2009. Since then, the SNES jr or SNES Baby, as we usually call it here in Brazil, became my favorite model. I still like the regular model for nostalgic reasons, but due the high prices, today I rather have the mini model as my daily driver SNES.

For how much of a Nintendo Fanboy I was mid 80s through the Wii , I have never seen that nor knew it had even existed. LOVE the videos.

Keep that system as a back up is cool

A few years ago, my brother gave me both the SNES and the Junior model. The Junior works great! There’s no corrosion or dust! The SNES was sitting next to the Junior in his garage in a box, yet is the grossest looking console! There’s a spider web in it, and a lot of pins are corroded.

I actually never heard of the Control Deck, either. I wish I did. My old SNES turned yellow and stopped functioning early on in its life, this would've been a great alternative.

I Love the Super Nes I had the original and it still works

I never seen these before. Completely alien to me. And that one with the red button.

My best friend when I was a kid had the Snes Jr. in the late 90s. I don’t remember ever seeing them in stores so seeing one at her house was the only way I even knew that it existed. I also remember the game gear being re-released around that time for super cheap. I think they were made by Majesco.

Yup, this model was my first exposure with the SNES and i had it with the "Nintendo" controllers instead of those labeled with the "Super Nintendo" mark.

I love my mini snes

I bought mine in 1998 for 50 bucks on Toys r'us and it still works great. No regrets for buying it. Back then, I couldn't afford the original for 200. So at the end of its lifespan they released the SNES jr. Finally got it.

My first console was also a SNES. Still have it today. I remember my Middle School had a rec room and it had this smaller SNES and a few games.

These models were around when we got Harvest moon on SNES near the end of its life cycle and the birth of the N64. Thanks Erin!

You must have bought it during an "in house special" sale. In which there is no advertising. In which, nowadays, is like finding gold!

I don’t remember that being released, I don’t think it was ever even mentioned in Nintendo Power. Of course, like you said, they were focusing on the N64 by then. I do remember the redesigned NES though.

Who knew? Now I’m gonna double check the logo on every snes controller I see !! Sweet

I think the SNES2 was featured in Nintendo Power Magazine when it was released if I remember correctly.

I remember seeing this at KB Toys too 🤣 I ended up picking up the Sega 32x with Virtua Fighter instead

I need a replacement AC Adapter for this, and now I know the exact name of this particular model which helps a lot. Thanks Erin.

We had one! Got it after our original one (a hand me down from a family in our church) broke. I remember my brother and I talking about how lucky we were because this new one looked so much sleeker and cooler! LOL! We also had that mini version of the PlayStation as well, which I have similar experience speaking about (where people think I'm talking about the new PlayStation Classic. Nope!)

I bought one back in 98 from Toys R Us, mostly just to play Sim City again.

Even though I like the og Snes better, this is still a cool little system to own.

It’s actually the only version I have of the SNES. I’ve had it for like 15 years now.

I remember seeing this model in the store bundled with Yoshi's Island, and my friend had one that came with Link to the Past. When I was little, I thought that "Super Mario World 2" and "Yoshi's Island" were two different games :P

Yeah I remember seeing it @ Toys Я Us when I was a kid but I don't remember the price. I also remember seeing the Genesis 3 for $30 around the same time. Just yesterday I bought my 3rd Super Nintendo. It's the old model and it's still grey, came with 4 games, 2 original controllers and the power and rca cables for $30!

I had that version of SNES (and it still works) and a friend of mine had the standard version. When he saw my console the most strange thing to him was the lack of a eject button, while I didn't undertand the necessity of a button to eject the cartridge hahaha I don't know if this version was more common here in Brazil, but I see a lot of youtubers from here showing their SNES and all of them have the standard version, so I think my parents just bought the console a little late haha

I got my SNS-101 from Blockbuster when they clearanced out all their SNES games. At the time I had a Sega Saturn which was getting no 3rd party support and barely hanging on to life so my older brother felt bad for steering me into getting a Saturn in the first place and snagged it with a few CIB games and I never really thought much of it in regards to the design until a few years ago when I dug it out of the basement and realized how different it looked compared to all the other Super Nintendos i had seen.

I was always too old school to buy systems when they first came out, so by the time I picked up a SNES this was it! It also came with Yoshi's Island which was great for me as I didn't have any other games at the time. I eventually picked up Super Mario World, Zelda and Super Punch Out. :)

After the NES, I went with the Genesis, so I never had a SNES growing up. Now with the SNES Classic & Super NT I get to enjoy SNES games I never got to play.

I remember that model when it came out. I actually purchased one used a few years ago to add to the collection.

I knew that SNES mini console before, reminds me of old times when i played a normal SNES console with the games Super Mario World and All-Stars, Killer Instinct and Donkey Kong Country, 3:54 Cheez! How many controllers are there! That one is very RARE.

The SNES was my first console as well. But I got mine really late, when I bought it off a friend. I think it was around 1996. Before that, I had an Amiga 500. This one was gifted to me from another friend when he got his first PC (a Pentium 75), which was around 1994. So yeah, I always was far behind on gaming technology, I guess that's why I still am a retrogamer today.

Honestly forgot this system was a thing, it's so cute!

Thanks. That's Awesome. 🎮

I had one of these SNES Jr. models as a kid and I still own it today. This is truly a great system.

Don't think I ever saw one of these in the wild. But my classic SNES is still kicking today too! Let's hope they last a good while longer

My original SNES was taken out by a Thunderstorm. My parents bought me the SNES 2 as a replacement, from Kmart. Still have the box and everything. I never used the controller that came with it.

My wife has one. I knew what it was on first sight. I saw these at toy stores, and video rental stores in the late 90s.

Stil got my first snes i got in 1994 and games and stil love it Back in day friend of my got snes with extra thing connect to it where all game are on floppy. He had close to all snes game who ever came out in EU USA and japan for snes. When we got 6 weeks off school we start snes marathon and was so much fun

Can confirm. I worked at Toys R Us in 1999. These Lil SNES 's were going for really cheap. Wish I would have bought one. ☹️

In South America, it was really hard to get original games and consoles, so we're totally used to pirate made-up names such as Poly-Station or Family Games (shaped as Sega Genesis), so when I hade my SNES, it was totally normal to me. A cousin of mine had the original one, but I never really cared for the difference. Now, I still have it and it, working perfectly and box displaying in my library. I just have to get new controllers as I destroyed de D-pad playing before I got my PSX. Enormous console filled with to many great memories.

Excellent video as usual Erin! The SNES mini is the SNES I own. I bought it back in the spring of 2004 at GameStop when they were slowly beginning to clear out all their SNES stuff along with most of the classics like Mario World, Mario Kart, F-Zero, DKC 1 and 2, Killer Instinct and Super Punch-Out, no Yoshi's Island at the time unfortunately. I also decided to get it because I got real sick of ROMs. I freaking love that model the best despite the lack of the eject button and what I really like about it the most about it is the SNES mini and the N64 both using the same A/V cable so I don't have to keep changing the cables on the back of my TV, I can just take the A/V cable out of one system and put it in the other and I don't have to keep taking the NES coaxial out. Whenever I'm traveling to a beach house or rented town house for a vacation, I always bring that SNES with me to help kill some time.

I still have mine and works perfectly. Impressive for how old it is

That's the model one of my best friends had when we were kids. I wasn't familiar with the original so I just thought that's what a Super Nintendo looked like

This was the first snes I owned. I found it at an estate sale in a little plastic bin that also came with yoshi’s island and a link to the past. $10 Unbelievable! I never had a snes as a kid, but I basically lived at my best friends house back then, and we played his constantly.

Great video! :D I never knew about these but I knew all about top-loader NES models other gamers had. What a great starter system, it's bundled with amazing games!! D: Somehow I knew the music was from SM xD

It's incredible but my NES and SNES still work fine today. That's when this industry produced quality stuff.

It's weird how most people's original Super NES seemed to turn yellow, but mine didn't. It's still light gray, like it was when it was new. I also have one of these smaller SNES consoles. I always called it the remodeled Super NES. I probably paid around $100 or $120 for mine on ebay, 10+ years ago. The only thing I wish it had is an eject button. The top loader NES definitely needed an eject button. I hated having to use both hands to pull the games out.

Super Nintendo was my favorite growing up

I had both versions of the SNES system for the same reason as you did Erin.. had it as a back up or travel unit when I left home .. also got mine for really cheap as well..

I think it’s awesome that you still use your old school SNES to capture your videos! I have one of these, but I didn’t know it existed until I inherited it from a family member about two years ago...

I am kicking myself for not buying a NES Top Loader when I was in my early teens.

I remember that model because I was a Sega kid and that was the only SNES model I had as a kid

I never owned the SNES. In that time I bought the playstation1 and skipped the N64. I didn't think to get an SNES 2 cause I still have the original. Good video Erin!

One of my best friends got the 2nd gen Snes back in the day, i remember it being advertised but it was during the N64 period, im guessing it was just overshadowed by the N64. I always thought it looked kinda silly, lots of ppl used to think the first Snes had an odd design but too me it was normal and i liked it. I still love the clicking sounds the power and eject buttons made on the system. Gotta love nostagia! :p

This was my family's second snes.

I love this model.

That was my SNES back in the day. I had to get another one because my original got lost years ago. But I have the original box for the Yoshis Island Bundle that my parents got me all those years ago. It was just full of Polaroid Pictures!! 😀

I still have my mini snes and still kicking. Love the video

Had no idea this was avalibe! Mind blown! SNES is still my favorite system hands down. Sooo many great memories.

Yup, I had the mini as a backup as well. Once my Snes died, I used my mini Until the 72 pin connector had a few rusted (Green) pins and would not load games anymore. So I opened my Old Snes, gutted the 72 pin connector, opened my snes mini, removed the 72 pin on it and swapped. Took a few hours to do as I needed to desolder it all from both consoles. Yikes.

My friend totally had this version! He had the one packaged with Yoshi’s Island. I had no idea it came out so much later though

I feel old when I can say "My first system was the Atari 2600."

Atari actually came out with a smaller 2600 sometime in the mid 1980s. I remember the commercials advertising it for under $50. I didn’t hear about this until a saw it on a RU-vid video.

Got this when it came out w Yoshi's Island 4 Xmas. It was a shared gift w my oldest brother, technically my first system though!

Very similar story for me. I was worried my games would all die and they would all dissapear. I hadn't yet realized emulators. I sold my original SNES to buy one of these and repurchased some of the players choice versions of games to give me a few extra years ;)

I saw this New-Style Super NES console in the late 90's-early 2000's, likely 1997 to 2000. I also know that Majesco (first known as a re-releaser/reissuer of old titles that had been abandoned by their original publisher) arranged with the Sega Genesis being re-released as Genesis 3 and the Sega Game Gear being re-released as the Sega Game Gear Core System around that time.

I've been playing Killer Instinct SO much lately, the only fighting game I really like. I still have my original console and game but I bought a snes mini and put the rom on it for a "back-up". ;) I love your tech vids!