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http://www.evilavatar.com/media?id=3914657&type=lg 16-Bit Defined: 20 Years of Super Nintendo
Two decades later, we take a look back at the system that created the console cycle.
By: Bob Mackey (http://www.1up.com/do/my1Up?publicUserId=5631527) August 19, 2011
This article originally appeared in 1UP Presents #2 (http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/222868), our amazing print magazine that contains 58 ad-free pages of original content on the best paper ever. If you'd like to read more about the Super Nintendo, check out Bob Mackey's list of must-play imports (http://www.1up.com/features/must-play-super-nintendo-imports), his examination of the system's technical tricks (http://www.1up.com/features/playing-power-super-nintendos-technical-tricks), and our readers' top 5 SNES games (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/top-5-snes-games-1up-editors), also from Issue 2.
How do you follow up the NES? This question undoubtedly ran through the creative minds at Nintendo as the faint spectre of the 90s began to loom on the horizon. In many ways, the ubiquity of their Nintendo Entertainment System stymied the release of a new console; simply put, the NES was a standard feature of any American household, common as the Mr. Coffee.
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Two decades later, we take a look back at the system that created the console cycle.
By: Bob Mackey (http://www.1up.com/do/my1Up?publicUserId=5631527) August 19, 2011
This article originally appeared in 1UP Presents #2 (http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/222868), our amazing print magazine that contains 58 ad-free pages of original content on the best paper ever. If you'd like to read more about the Super Nintendo, check out Bob Mackey's list of must-play imports (http://www.1up.com/features/must-play-super-nintendo-imports), his examination of the system's technical tricks (http://www.1up.com/features/playing-power-super-nintendos-technical-tricks), and our readers' top 5 SNES games (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/top-5-snes-games-1up-editors), also from Issue 2.
How do you follow up the NES? This question undoubtedly ran through the creative minds at Nintendo as the faint spectre of the 90s began to loom on the horizon. In many ways, the ubiquity of their Nintendo Entertainment System stymied the release of a new console; simply put, the NES was a standard feature of any American household, common as the Mr. Coffee.
More... (http://www.1up.com/features/snes-retrospective-anniversary-super-nintendo)