The recently-launched Switch may be one of Nintendo’s most important hardware launches yet thanks to the fact that the company’s home and portable interests are now converging in a single platform, but that doesn’t diminish the fact that Nintendo has released some of the most significant and influential pieces of gaming hardware ever, with the 16-bit Super Nintendo arguably being the most celebrated.
And now, to round off the cream of the crop from our readers poll, we can reveal that TechRadar’s readers have voted the Super Nintendo, AKA the SNES, as the greatest console of all time ever.
A deserving winner it is too! Read on for what made it earn such a special place in a generation of gamers’ hearts.
A secretive start
With its first home console the NES, Nintendo practically reinvented the term “home gaming” after Atari’s catastrophic mismanagement caused the video game crash in 1983. Nintendo’s 8-bit system became a byword for gaming itself in North America, reinvigorating the sector and emboldening rivals such as Sega and NEC, both of whom attempted to muscle in with their 8 and 16-bit consoles.
Sega’s Mega Drive – known in America as the Genesis – was the most successful, …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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