Nintendo Officially Announces The SNES Classic Will Come Out In September And Will Include The Unreleased Star Fox 2
The Verge- Nintendo has revealed details for the SNES Classic. The standalone mini console will feature 21 games, including Super Mario World, Earthbound, Super Mario Kart, and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. But the most surprising inclusion is Star Fox 2, the unreleased sequel to the original Star Fox for SNES.
The Super NES Classic Edition will launch on September 29th for $79.99. Like its predecessor the NES Classic, it will allow players to easily play retro games on high-definition televisions, thanks to an HDMI connection.
The full list of games included on the SNES Classic follows:
Contra III: The Alien Wars
Donkey Kong Country
EarthBound
Final Fantasy III
F-ZERO
Kirby Super Star
Kirby’s Dream Course
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Mega Man X
Secret of Mana
Star Fox
Star Fox 2
Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Super Castlevania IV
Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
Super Punch-Out!!
Yoshi’s Island
Alright Mario, you slick motherfucker. It may have taken me like a half dozen consoles or so, but I finally am on to your little ruse here. Create a console that gets everyone hyped as fuck, produce like 10 of them, and watch the masses eat themselves alive as they try to get their hands on them while your mustachioed ass watches the world burn from some ivory tower that does not have the real Princess in it. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me six times…you ain’t gonna fool me again.
Ah who am I kidding? I am thrilled that the SNES Classic is actually coming to fruition. And in September no less! No need to fight with people during Christmas shopping. A September release is perfect because it’s just as football season is getting underway, causing my wife to truly hate my ass as I sit inside during the weekend. Putting a nostalgic video game system in my hands is the cherry on top of the “I think I want a divorce” sundae that is made every year in the fall.
A few thoughts on the system:
– First off, I love the game selection.
I blogged my games wish list when the SNES Classic was first rumored to be coming out
and for the most part Nintendo obliged with the list. No sports games is a real kick in the dick, but it’s not much of a surprise since so most sports games rely on league and player naming rights. Nobody wants to play with QB 16 or SG 23 because that feels like poor people shit.
– I don’t understand why we couldn’t get Ken Griffey Jr. Major League Baseball included. Simply pay MLB whatever they want for the team names, throw Junior a few bucks for his name/image and use the greatest fake video game rosters ever created.
– I’m real bummed there is no Ninja Turtles Arcade Game. And people could have made some pretty awesome songs and shit on a new Mario Paint. But the fact of the matter is Mario Paint collected a shitload of dust in peoples’ houses for years for a reason and Nintendo will probably release the TMNT Arcade Game in the Switch store for like $20 minimum because they know they have us by the balls.
– Most of my takes on these games are in that SNES Classic rumors blog, so check it out if you want to know what my dumb brain thinks about them. And even if you don’t care, just give it a click. My daughter has to eat and as you can imagine, I don’t leave a lot of leftovers behind when we have dinner.
– Not to get weird on you guys, but the mini SNES is cute as fuuuuuck.
– I am more than fine paying a few extra bucks for the SNES Classic than I did for the NES Classic since it comes with two controllers instead of one. I only have one controller for my NES Classic and if I actually still had time to see my friends, it would have been a real problem only having one controller, since they discontinued the NES Classic because it was selling like hot cakes and who likes a product that is in extremely high demand?
– Hopefully said controllers have cords longer than about 6 inches like the NES Classic had. While I’m all for nostalgia, I think going with wireless would have probably been the way to go. You forget how much wires fucking SUCK when playing video games.
– Hey Europe, your Super Nintendo system is as lame as the Metric system. Boom, roasted.
– Oh yeah and your controllers look like the bootleg controllers that were at kids’ house that couldn’t afford cable. Straight Funcoland bullshit.
– I didn’t see an unreleased Star Fox game getting included on the SNES Classic. But I guess Nintendo felt bad just re-selling all of our old games back to us for $80. Yes I know I could have played Star Fox 2 using an emulator or a Raspberry Pi. But I didn’t.
– Speaking of the Raspberry Pi, this is the part of the blog where I say that I know I could make a complete system with every SNES game ever for a fraction of the price of the SNES Classic. But $80 to support a company that has given me countless great memories seems like a very fair trade off (even though I want to murder every person in that company when I cannot find said system because of either production issues or they are a bunch of sick fucks that like to watch us suffer). Raspberry Pi hardos are the goddamn pits.
– Sega clearly knew this was coming when they announced they were releasing all their classic games on mobile last week.
Look I was a Sega guy growing up. My parents bought me the Master Drive and a Genesis growing up. Times were good enough at the OG Casa de Clem that we had a Super Nintendo as well. SNES was cleaner graphics, Sega had blood. Truly six of one, half a dozen of the other. Actually if we are being honest, Mortal Kombat was straight up unplayable without blood and NHL 94 was so much better when you could make a dude’s head bleed. But for games without blood, SNES was probably better. Mario and Sonic fought head-to-head for years. But while Sonic won a few battles, Mario clearly won the war. Which is why that move by Sega was way too little way too late.
– Now all we do is sit and wait for the announcement of when and where these little nostalgic boners will be available. If you are a member of my #twitterfam, I will make sure to retweet anywhere that has them in stock for pre-order as soon as I see it.