Super Nintendo / Super Famicom

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System, also known as the Super Nes, Super Nintendo or just SNES in the United States and Super Famicom (スーパーファミコン) in Japan, is a console developed by Nintendo and released on November 21, 1990.

It was designed by Masayuki Uemura, manager of Nintendo R&D2 at the time and who also designed the 8-bit Nintendo.

Its main processor is the Ricoh 5A22, it is 16 bits and runs at a speed of 3.58 MHz.

The sound chip is the Nintendo S-SMP, it was developed by Sony and is stereo, having 8 sound channels, support for samplers and effects such as echo.

Its video processor has 64KB of memory, supports 32768 colors, 128 sprites on the screen (with a maximum of 32 per line), and up to 4 background layers.

It sold the incredible mark of 49 million units around the world, surpassing the rival Mega Drive that managed to sell around 30 million.

It was discontinued only in 1997 with the arrival of the Nintendo 64.

Release date: November 21, 1990