Super Famicom / Super NES

The Super Famicom (Super Nintendo internationally) is a fourth generation home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was released in November 1990 in Japan, August 1991 in North America, and April-July 1992 in PAL territories. It succeeded Nintendo’s Famicom / Nintendo Entertainment System. It competed primarily with Sega’s Mega Drive (Genesis) and NEC’s PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16). It was the highest selling system of the 16-bit era.