Super Nintendo Entertainment System

The super Famicom is the Japanese name for the 'Super Nintendo Entertainment System' or 'SNES' in the western world. It's the succesor the the Famicom or NES which was short for 'family computer'. It included such classic Nintendo games as Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Mario World 1 and 2, Super Metroid and countless others. It was released in November 1990 in Japan.