I finally bought a Super Nintendo! Childlike wonderment and awe has filled the SNES shaped hole that once made my life feel vague and empty!

As a young child in the first half of the 90?s, a Super Nintendo was completely off the radar for me in terms of what I wanted in my life. I liked Lego I liked cake and I wanted to be a hedgehog when I grew up (without even knowing what a Sonic was). I now know that that?s a real shame since I wasted time with things real kids were supposed to be doing rather than spending my time playing gems such as Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario World and Nigel Mansell?s Championship Racing(?) like I have found myself doing in the last couple of days.

I?m not a stranger to Nintendo consoles. I?ve owned all the other Nintendo home consoles (even the NES) and enjoyed them thoroughly, and due to this it?s a mystery to me as to why it?s taken me so long to pick one of these up.

I managed to purchase mine on Ebay in a bundle which included two Super Nintendo?s a load of control pads and a few games. The best part is that I just managed to sell the other console for more than the price of the package combined, so I essentially got paid to have a SNES!

Gloating aside I must say I?m pleased with the console I chose to keep. It has an interesting makeshift, two tone colour scheme going on due to a combination of the usual discoloration and what appear to be some replacement panels. As per usual with older Nintendo consoles it works as if it were brand new and I love the overall sturdiness of the thing combined with the satisfying clunk that comes with changing and inserting games.

The two games that have really grabbed my attention so far are the aforementioned Donkey Kong and Mario games, but I hope to pick up all the obvious greats over the coming weeks. I?m finding the two games surprisingly challenging due to an immense break from not only retro games, but games in general due to an extended period of travel, but I?m hoping this system will kick my ass enough to get me prepared for that copy of Dark Souls I have lying around!

So anyway my neglect of this wonderful console is all but 16bit water under the bridge now and I really hope to get my teeth into some of the games available for the system. If there are any little known or unusual titles that anyone has to recommend please let me know and I?ll get on to tracking them down.

I was going to include an epic explanation as to how in love with this system I am right now, but the fact that I?d rather rush off and play it to death probably gives it more justice than I?m able to explain.



This blog is in memory of the millions that died in the great banana famine of '93