Whilst my loyalty will always lie first and foremost with the magnificent Sega Megadrive, there's no escaping the fact that the SNES is an equally brilliant console, and was in fact more powerful than the megadrive, with a lusher colour palette and more processing muscle. More than that though- like the megadrive it has a vast library of excellent and varied titles to play on it, unlike other games machines like the Atari Jaguar, a far more powerful machine that was completely let down by having next to no decent games to play on the damn thing. Whist the Megadrive has Sonic, the SNES has Super Mario World, one of the greatest platformers ever ...  Read the complete review

It was a Christmas evening many, many years ago (I was probably 9, but in all honesty I do not remember exactly). After a family dinner we went out for a walk in the city which was beautifully decorated and full of stands offering Christmas treats and sweets. I remember my mother bought me a red helium balloon in the shape of the reindeer - that was probably the time when my father sneaked back home and "planted" the gifts under the tree and returned to us, I honestly did not see him leave so imagine my surprise and new questionings about the great force called Santa (in which at the time I did not believe anymore, but my dad managed to bring back the X-mas ...  Read the complete review

While I had the Sega Mega Drive my younger brother had the rival to this console, the Super Nintendo. This was a fairly bulky box of a games system in grey and white with a slot on the top for games cartridges to be inserted in to, similar to the Sega, just below this was an eject button to enable you to release them. To the left of this was the power switch and to the right was a reset button when you just wanted to start again rather than turn the system completely off all together. There were two joy pads with the one in our house which were the same colour scheme as the main console. My brother and I along with other friends had a lot of good times ...  Read the complete review

In a nutshell, perhaps one of the greatest consoles ever to be released. The Super Nintendo is a 16bit system which was released between 1990 and 1993. It was the second console to be released by Nintendo and was a major success in the industry. It was released for around $200 in America and £150 in the UK. A snip compared to the price of modern games console release prices. The Super Nintendo brought us such great classics such Super Mario producing massive sales, star fox, as well as many other Nintendo characters we have all come to love. The super Nintendo was capable of playing primitive 3D games, such as Star fox and Donkey Kong, thanks to the later ...  Read the complete review

The super Nintendo console in my opinion is not just the best nintendo console ever made but the best console ever full stop. It was the console that had so many timeless classics and so many great games for it. The super Nintendo was the follow up console to the brilliant Nintendo entertainment system console. It was first released in japan on November 21st 1990 and was available everywhere else by 1993. The console had a great sound system built into it thanks to sony's FX chip, this gave games that were released on the snes better quality music and sound effects. The snes also had something built in it called mode 7, mode 7 gave 3D like graphics and ...  Read the complete review