foxtail on 20 November 2010
Super Famicom (aka SNES in Japan) also turns 20 this weekend.
"Mario put on his first cape, Captain Falcon crossed his first finish line and the insatiably hungry Yoshi hatched out of his very first egg to begin to consume everything in sight – and it all happened twenty years ago, this weekend.
Nintendo's eight-bit Family Computer had been the company's active (and only) home console in Japan for over seven years. And though the original Famicom had been an incredible success, the dawn of a new decade finally prompted the Big N to introduce a more powerful machine. It happened a full two decades ago this weekend, as the 16-bit Super Famicom went on sale in Japanese stores on November 21, 1990." - source
