Information about Super Famicom
Super Famicom (known as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in North America and Europe) was released on November 21, 1990 in Japan. It essentially stole the market from the Sega Megadrive and had 80% of it. It is believed that the U.S. version was redesigned so that a drink could not be rested on the top of the console. The Japanese rested drinks on their Super Famicoms and many of those drinks were spilled. This argument may not be correct as a) the European SNES reverted back to the Japanese design and b) the Japanese Super Famicom was not redesigned along similar 'no spill' lines. One thing the Japanese console has that its SNES counterpart doesn't have is the expansion port on the bottom right hand side used for the Satellaview attachment, and a never-released Nintendo CD attachment by Sony. After Sony saw Nintendo also having Phillips making the CD attachment, Sony drew away and made the Sony PlayStation partly thanks to the resources it had while it made the CD attachment. The Playstation overtook Nintendo in the console market. Like its SNES counterpart, the Super Famicom was replaced by the Nintendo 64. Another interesting note is that the Super Famicom logo appeared in the "Special Zone" of Super Mario World worldwide, despite the fact that the logo was not used for the SNES releases in North America and Europe.
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