Your birth year
2006
Super Nintendo
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Super Nintendo is 15 years older than you
It's from 1991, before you were born.
- Maker
- Nintendo
- Type
- 16-bit game console
- Debuted
- 1991
- Note
- Home of Mario, Zelda & Mode 7
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About
As of 2026, it's 35 years old.
The Super Nintendo arrived in North America in 1991 with 16 bits of power, a controller sporting fancy new shoulder buttons, and a graphics trick called Mode 7 that made everyone gasp at faux-3D racetracks.
It hosted some of the greatest games ever pressed onto a cartridge — Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Metroid, and a roster of RPGs that ate entire summers alive.
Purple, gray, and gloriously bulky, the SNES is the 1991 console that won the 16-bit war on the strength of its library and proved that blowing into a cartridge is a love language.
