The MOST Obscure Super Nintendo Fact You Didn’t Know about

What's up with those mysterious orange dots on SNES game boxes?

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[OmgMcGamez]

They look spaced apart similar to floating point accuracy, closer together at the bottom, but spread apart at the top.

[SuperRobertson]

Ok, but the first one, is a European Pal version!

[thetux]

Nintendo HQ: "He knows too much, eliminate him!"

[TheSliderW]

Are you sure about that ? It mostly looks like 80-90's art, especially because they get closer near the bottom

[darkmoule]

And if you link every dots with a pencil, the face of Jesus will appear and confirm Half Life 3. Amazing.

[androxilogin]

Kinda seems like speculation considering some boxes don't have 16 dots.

[infernaldaedra]

I always figured it was 80s/90s gamer stuff like stacked lines and fast looking text lol

[Boss_Scaggz]

16 dots. "Nintendo" has 8 letters which is also the number of bits the NES had. 16/8 = 2. All Kirby games were 2D until Kirby and the Forgotten Dreamland which came out in 2022 (also all 2's), specifically 3/25/2022 which adds up to.... 3+2+5+2+0+2+2 = 16. Illuminati confirmed.

[gianlucag]

"do you know why US boxes have these dots? Me neither"

[brickman]

I think its just supposed to be a design choice and the fact that they add up to 16 is probably more of a little easter egg than anything. I really dont think it was for marketing because its way faster to just read the part of the box that says its a 16 bit console in plain English than it would be to count the dots and somehow interpret that as meaning its a 16 bit console.

[raxadian]

I guess they didn't wanna just add the number 16 on the box to avoid confusion.

[robertt]

So is this a fact or an assumption? The short video wasn’t clear on whether there was any credible source behind the hypothesis.

[RAR]

lil bro rediscovered basic corporate graphic design

[StevenAmendt_Gaming]

But some European boxes have these dots, indeed. Here in Germany we have two different styles of box arts. One that you showed in the clip and one that looks like the American box art but with German texts (e.g. Donkey Kong CVountry 1, 2 and 3).

[AndehX]

I really don't think the dots are to represent "16 bits"
Mainly because not a single person who had a Super NES back then, took any notice of the dots, or knew why they were even there, thus making this theory pretty much void.
It's funny too, because back in the day, I always thought of the SNES as a 32 bit console, because it's graphics were always superior to the Mega Drive, which actually had "16 bit" plastered all over it.
Games like Donkey Kong Country really gave the false notion that the SNES was 32 bit and truly a step up from the Mega Drive.

[NVUSAttitude]

I always thought snes boxes had so much going on.


Nothing ever compares to the mario kart 64 box in general tho, that box specifically makes me feel a certain way

[thegloriousryius]

Box printing. It's probably so the box cutter can judge the distance to cut the box or so the printer nows when to start the next pattern.

[jvogler_art]

I just think they add to that 1980s vintage retro futurism. They look very space age.

[ceneblock]

What is the spacing between the dots?

I kinda looks like you could fit a Fibonacci sequence between them.

[svenbtb]

I've honestly always wondered about this haha, thank you!