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Why Does the North American Super Nintendo Look So Different? - Retro Bird
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- Опубликовано: 22 ноя 2018
- Did Nintendo mess with the design of the Super Nintendo just to be jerks or was there a more logical reason for it?
Why the North American Super Nintendo has a design that looks ugly to so many people.
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The punch and pie is metaphorical!
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I like both designs. They're distinct and reflect the area they released in. The NA version had the advantage of the two concave buttons, a design choice I really like. I don't like the purple buttons though, the colored ones would have still been the better choice. Also, I love the labels on the NA games. Here, in Europe, the cartridges are rounded though, so labels are not really a possibility. Same goes for Japanese cartridges...
I think the Super Nintendo makes sense in a sense this console was in fact designed to support a Disc Drive (DD) such as the one Famicom had except this one was going to be a CD drive and Sony actually wanted to further expand this console to 32-bit 3D capabilities early on... Reason why there is an "All-In-One" model similar to the Twin Famicom however this one was called the PLAYSTATION. The Playstation was a prototype of All-in-one SNES Super Disc with the option of System Cartridge to further enhance it to 32-bit level. The functional prototypes of System Cartridge were destroyed and the only one left was the Super Disc bios. So yeah like they said... The SNES and SFC were going to get upgrade modules, the Super Disc and possibly a SC for them as well.
I always liked the design and the purple.
purple is a girls color thats why i never liked the design. nintendo shouldve just gave ntsc regions the same design as the pal region.
imo red wouldve been a better choice, since the nes already had red accents on it
As a european I was first not a fan of the NA cartridges but after all the years I have to admit that the stickers on the top are much better and it's a shame that the japanese/european cartridges didn't have that feature. We also never got the dust protecting covers for the contacts below. Overall I think the NA design was very clever and it's better for collecting. Pal versions suck anyway. My only gripe is the NA Controller. I never got used to the different X and Y buttons. In Europe and Japan all buttons felt the same which I find better and I prefer the colors.
Jokes on Nintendo! My SNES drank some tequila with me years ago... It still works too, despite some temporary squish when inverting a cartridge.
I always thought it looked cool, like a fuckin TANK!!!!
Yeah, I always thought it was a great looking serious design. Especially with a cartridge inserted. They only look like hell if they start to turn yellow. It's interesting how divisive this one is.
The original Playstation was another fine looking console to my eye and it struck me as being partially inspired by the north american snes.
I’ve always thought the US design was ugly but it’s grown on me over the years and I now really like the aesthetic. I still prefer the PAL/SFC though 😀
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I had always thought it was the same design worldwide. It wasn't until retro exploded on RUclips that I first seen it was a different design to what we got in the UK.
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I actually did do a video kind of like that! I can't remember if MGS1 is on there but I was definitely considering it as part of the conversation: ruclips.net/video/jCTlb9UMrms/видео.html
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As someone who’s just now becoming interested in the SNES. I think the North American version looks better by a mile. Idk why but the purple and bigger sharper look is so cool
For the SNES buttons colour you have a choice of dark purple and...light purple. 😆
Wow, I never knew anybody thought that about the NA SNES design. You learn something new every day! It's actually my favorite console design of all-time, and that's coming from someone born a decade after released, so I don't have any bias there. I always found the EU/JP design to be bland and a little unappealing. The NA SNES controller is also my favorite controller design ever made too. But then again, I'm one of the few who finds red, blue, yellow and green all on one controller to be ugly. It's interesting to see how different perspectives can be.
It does look a little ugly but I don't know after a while it grows on you
I feel the same way about it.
I personally prefer the overall look of the super famicom console because of how sleek and well put together it looks, but I think I like the super Nintendo controller better with the muted purple. Another thing I just realized the Donkey Kong Country 3 banana bird cave sections would have been so much easier for other regions because they could rely on colors and not just the buttons.
As a kid I was baffled why NOA ditched the RGBY color scheme and went with violet and lavender. As an adult, I actually prefer and love the purple scheme. The RGBY controllers look kinda kiddy, looking back.
It's just so immediately recognizable!
In general I like the purple, but for Super Nintendo I'm lucky to be european ;-) I love the design of the PAL version and the colorful buttons.
Some things just aren't worth complaining about. Living in Canada, obviously the NA one is the norm. I also have a Super Famicom and to me that's the one that looks weird. Doesn't really matter what it looks like as long as it works.
I like the NA SNES design. It is really 90's. It's cool. But I definitely prefer the JP / EU design. It's just more sleek and timeless, I think.
Totally. The NA SNES was a product of the time and place it was released.
Both designs look nice and same with the controller, but I prefer the design of the SFC/PAL version, especially the controller. It's very ironic since I'm from North America, not PAL region or Japan.
omg you answered a question I was wondering for a long time. My snes is pretty yellowed *except* the area around the cartridge port. I was wondering why that is and it seems like it was a manufacturing thing?
Also, in terms of the look of the consoles, I can't say I'm a fan of the nes or snes. I much prefer the famicom variants of both. The original famicom looks downright futuristic. And the super famicom looks comfy as well. The original nes is ugly by comparison (especially when yellowed like mine is). The snes is *okayish* and I suppose most of that is due to growing up with it. But the square look is honestly kinda bad, especially when you compare it to the model 2 genesis which is super sleek even by today's standards. Sega did a great job designing their consoles as I like the genesis, saturn, and dreamcast. all of them look great. For nintendo, I'm just glad we started getting the same molds as japan.
Basically, different parts of your Super Nintendo may have been manufactured separately. So, certain parts may be the plastic that is more susceptible to turning yellow than other parts.
Maybe the overall shape can grow on me but the button colours were a cardinal sin.
Yeah, the color just didn't sit right with a lot of people.
I like the design of the SNES that we got here in the states👍
He look like Daniel Tosh. I thought Daniel Tosh was talking video games!
You're actually not the first person to make that comparison. Only on my video comments. Never in real life.
I prefer the US SNES model's appearance.
As much as I loved he NES as a kid, the SNES I had to work to get and the games played on it were way more memorable than the NES (Looking at you FFIII (6). Hated OG TMNT. That one can burn. 🤣
I like the SNES Design never understood why people disliked it better then the Famicoms Design
I have ALWAYS loved the SNES console and controller design. Not diggin' that Famicom design, tho.
I live in Europe but I like the American design so much that I have 3 of those beauties at home 🤣😂
I like the us design better. I don’t know I think it’s more memorable imo.
I have always liked the NA design and colors n.n
I've never owned a regular super Nintendo but I own a super Nintendo Junior that's the one where I kind of thought the design might be a little bit off but I think I actually like it better than the regular super Nintendo
I don’t think the US design is bad. While I like the Super Famicom design, I don’t think it’s better or worse. I would complain more about the carts for the Super Famicom though… which aren’t as nice to me.
It’s Lavender not purple
You know what's also weird is that the shade of the color of the power and reset buttons will vary by console as well.
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It’s a variety set of the colour purple but I wish our North American system had more to it like the one in Europe and Asia
@@christopherturcios92 Yeah, you're definitely not alone there.
I don't think it's ugly. It's just less pretty than the Super Famicom.
Why am I the only one who thinks the famicom looks drab and boring with bland color
The super Nintendo on the other hand looked unique n colorful
I liked it
Personally I love the design. I think the SuperFamicon was waaayy uglier. Design and color were so much worse.
I've never seen a Famicon before. I don't know what you are talking about, the Famicon is the ugly one :)
PS: I never knew there was an eject button!
It's not the super Nintendo. it's the American super Nintendo.
Ugly design plus a slow cpu thats why I sold it and I didn't think twice about it.
Yes, very ugly. The Japanese/PAL version looked a lot better, but not great either in my opinion.
US design is purple crap
I prefer the American version over European and Japanese version it just looks cooler to me