Many of us may even still have one laying around from the ’90s. It’s fairly easy to find and can be had for about $50 or under depending. This was the model sold in NA from 1991-1997 and the one most retro gamers are familiar with. The most common is the model pictured above. So first we should go over the SNES consoles available before we compare. I’ll be covering the North American systems here since there’s really no significant difference except for form factor and the NA SNES seems to be the best “universal” system. For the first console I’m going to look at in this series I’ve picked one of my all-time favorites, the Super Nintendo. In this series I’m going to pick a console and examine the different versions released and try to decide on the best one overall.

Sometimes the early version of a console is most desirable because of extra features or abilities that were later cut to save costs and sometimes later revisions with more refined internals and bug corrections are the models to get. Sometimes these revisions are all internal but many times they are also external. Usually when a gaming console comes out it goes through several revisions in its life.

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