The SNES Classic Edition

I take a look back at Nintendo's second "mini"/"classic" system, the SNES Classic Edition.

This video was originally released via Card #45 of the Scott The Woz Collectible Trading Cards in late 2022.

Edited by Sam Essig and Scott Wozniak

Main Channel: @ScottTheWoz

[BugsyFoga]

Sure can’t wait for the N64 and GameCube classics that will totally happen 🥲

[real_abender]

My grandmother still has one of these at her house for my cousins and I to play when we visit. It's great.

[Glitchman]

I remember going to Walmart at like 5 PM and by some miracle they had ONE SNES Classic left, which I immediately bought after missing out on the initial run of the NES Classic. Star Fox 2 was also definitely a huge selling point for me back then. The employee working there said I was extremely lucky and that they had no idea why it didn't sell earlier in the day.

[Ronboy-]

My younger brother somehow managed to buy one of these with his own 9 year old money. I had played Super Mario World before on the Wii U, but this was my first time playing games like Yoshi's Island, Kirby Super Star, Super Mario RPG, Star Fox, and loads of others. I was 14 at the time, so these aren't just made to nostalgia bait a bunch of 40 year olds. These can be gateways for younger people like me and my brother who don't have hundreds of dollars to blow on the original console to experience these games for the first time.

[DieselD]

Can’t wait for the SNES Classic Edition Classic Edition.

[Nerdtendo]

Fun Fact: if you use a Wii Classic controller, hitting the home button will act like the reset button

[greggvictorious]

Last year my cousin who knows zero about videogames asked me what he should get for his little kids to introduce them to games. He thought about getting them an "Atari" but I said stop right there and I immediately ordered an SNES classic. So I went to my cousins house with the SNES classic and went through how to turn it on, taught them about the d-pad, how the buttons are labeled, and how to hold the controller. Showed them how to scroll through the library of games. The first game any kid starting out should play is Super Mario World. Then we played some Mario Kart, Super Punch Out, and Zelda. As far as these kids were concerned the SNES classic was now their main gaming system and they loved it. It really shows that people complaining about it at the time of release asking what's the point of this is really narrow minded and can't think about how something may appeal to others.

[theruoc]

One of my biggest regrets in life is seeing one of these left at a GameStop back in the day and not immediately grabbing it. Because I was in college and I needed the money for “food” and “rent”. I asked my friend to drag me out of the store before I could buy it. I was a fool. But my mom got me the Genesis classic that year for Christmas and that was still cool as hell.

[MikalEdmunds]

I’m super grateful for the SNES classic solely because it was an accessible way to play EarthBound. Such a great franchise that never got the chance it deserved

[amerimangaka]

My brother hacked some games onto my snes classic years ago and a few months ago I finally got around to actually playing something on it. I played Chrono Trigger, it was my first time playing the game. Amazing experience, I wish it was on the snes classic out of the box

[shyduck_]

Here for the legal pad. Big fan of the legal pad.

[PScoopYT]

Star Fox 2 roms that were on the internet before SNES Classic release are technically "content complete" but it's clear they were rough patches around the edges that need more cleanups that the final rom has.

Here are some of the biggest differences between the two.
1) the result screen. While the leaked rom is more flashy, the final rom actually tells you the score calculation of each category. Which is important for the game as getting enough high scores is required for unlocking stuff.

2) The homing charged shot no longer enabled by default, you have to collect all the golden medals (otherwise known as Pepper Coin) in each difficulty to even have access to the function in that difficulty (alongside a pool of special items to help you on your mission) While some people thought this was a dumb decision to make the game harder, I actually think this turn into yet another part of the strategy gameplay to juggle, which is pretty fun! Also homing shot just broke the difficulty in half for a lot of things anyway. So I think making the players earn that feature is a good thing.

3) In turn, the game rebalanced its difficulty quite a bit for the players. Health pickups heal two full shield points instead of one in the leaked roms. And indoor walls no longer hurt the players, for example. (At least I thought this wasn't the case for the leaked rom, it's been years)

4) Miyu and Fay no longer equipped with Twin Blaster by default, but in turn, you can unlock permanent Twin Blaster upgrade for all characters if you're reaching enough score on your run. (This required beating the game on Expert so it's not an easy task!)

[Nerdtendo]

This is one of the rare systems I’m actually proud to have in my shelf, even though it isn’t even plugged in. It looks so nice on a shelf, and unlike a WiiU I don’t have an overwhelming sense of survivors guilt for looking at it

[seel]

The menu music is really fun i like it

[jakeinator]

This was my first ever exposure to the SNES library. I knew the library and always wanted to play it, but I never had a way to do so. Then my 8th grade social studies teacher showed me this in 2019 and I got one used later that year.

(For context, my Switch was broken at the time and needed repairs, so online library was a no go.)

It felt so magical to me to finally play all of these games I've always heard about but never got to play. And quite a few of them did live up to my expectations. I had few letdowns with the overall package.

I even bought a classic controller PC adapter to play it on PC games and emulators. Using it for SNES, GBA, Sega Genesis, and DS games feels so natural.

Overall, I'd argue this is my favorite miniconsole ever.

[chrisbeach]

Crono Trigger and DKC2 are the 2 most glaring omissions to me.

[Jonathanests]

I remember how Nintendo marketed this thing in the most 90s way possible and I love every single of it.

[Jacks_game_room]

I love this little thing. It’s how I first played earthbound which became my favorite game ever! And how I first beat super Mario world and super Metroid. There are a couple stinkers in there and few big omissions, but this is one of the most solid packages you could ask for.

[myriadmediamusings]

Oooh yeah now we’re talking. SNES was my childhood console through my cousin lending his to me, and so I pounced on this one when it came out.

Aside from childhood games like SF2 turbo, Mario World, DKC and StarFox, I was very eager to try some of the hidden gems like Earthbound, Mario RPG and FF6. Star Fox 2 finally being officially released was also a huge win and now that is my favorite Star Fox game.

Woulda been neat if it had the same amount of games as the NES Classic but I didn’t mind because these were all beefy games that lasted a while.

[retroplayz]

I remember begging my mom for this for my birthday and specifying for the snes and not the nes and I was super happy to get it she also surprisingly got me the playing with super power book (not the hard cover) but I definetly got some use out of it and I kept everything in it together which was surprising for my age it was also a great impact for my love of collecting retro games (alongside your channel of course)