The Super Nintendo in 1991 | Classic Gaming Quarterly

Episode 50 - When the Super Nintendo launched in August of 1991, its launch lineup was solid, but small. The legendary Super Mario World was of course the pack-in game, but the only other games on the shelf that day were Pilotwings and F-Zero. While Sega would latch on to the fact that, having released two years prior, the Genesis had a much larger library, several games were released on the Super Nintendo in 1991 that have come to be considered absolute classics on the system. Gradius III, one of the best shooters on the console, came out about a week after launch, and other noteworthy titles released that year include ActRaiser, Final Fantasy II, Super Ghouls'n Ghosts, and Super Castlevania IV.

Show Notes:

- That is veteran character actor “Mike Starr” in the SNES commercial at the beginning of the video.

- This is the longest "documentary" style episode I've ever made, at just over 1 hour long.

- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was originally announced as an Autumn 1991 release, but the game was delayed until early 1992.

- Work began on this video in June of 2017, and the episode was finished 10 minutes before midnight on December 31st.

- All gameplay footage was captured using an RGB-modded model 2 Super Nintendo upscaled through a Framemeister and recorded using an Elgato Game Capture HD.

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[CGQuarterly]

Happy New Year, everybody!  I put a ton of work into this episode, so I hope you all enjoy it!

[FinalBossMusic]

I would be so stoked to see you upload a Super Nintendo in 1992. (or 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996.. haha) These videos are amazingly well done. You are an evoker of nostalgia in your own league.

[KWKBOX]

It amazes me how small channels like this can create such great content that will never be seen by the masses and large ones can crank out crap for the world to see. Keep up the great work!

[Rattler]

wow what a treat this was. i grew up playing these titles and i must say you did an excellent job with this video. bravo.

[XGALAXYDRIFTRX]

Holy shit! an hour long video from one of the best Youtube channels to start they year!

[cnlsn]

I just received a bunch of original SNES games for Christmas! Lol I’m honestly enjoying these games a lot more than most of the games on my PS4.

[L.L.]

What I really like is that you shine a light on all the devs and surroundings.

[Ferrichrome]

Hey man, this was awesome. your vids are seriously underrated. Good luck with your channel in 2018!

[anthonyroberts]

The day of comeing home on Fridays from school and my parents taking me to local movie store to rent a game and comeing home and chilling and not care in the wolrd but to beat the game be4 I had take it back.

[CosmicEffect]

I'm in the process of re-watching this episode on a daily basis because this is CGQ gold extra-plus. Classic Gaming Quarterly is the real deal on video game documentaries, nothing else comes close.

[RamonMSilva-fsqe]

Your channel is a one of the best Youtube! I remember seeing the Super Nintendo in 1991. It was on a TV show, the games were Super Mario and World and F-Zero. Amazing games for the time! F-Zero with the graphical effects of Mode 7. Yes! They're incredible even today! Greetings from Brazil. :)

[ichigokarasu]

I'm so glad this video was suggested to me. Your research and level of detail, as well as production values and editing are spot frigging on. And one piece of praise I want to heap is your pronunciation of Japanese words and names. There are so many people who have chosen to make retro/classic gaming channels, and naturally a lot of that subject revolves around Japan. Yet some narrators' elocution when it comes to Japanese, ranges from miserable to "lolwut?". I think it's awesome that, either you already knew how to pronounce things correctly, or took the time to research that as well. Either way, kudos, man. It's music to my ears haha.

[ottosantiagolassus]

It baffles me why you still don't have 1mill subs. This is probably one of the best gaming channels on YouTube

[SeaToSkyImages]

Another killer retrospective of one of my favourite years in gaming. I bought the SNES the day after Christmas, and the first game I rented was Super Castlevania 4. I was in heaven. Your video brought me back to that day, my man.

Awesome, awesome work.

[samtron]

Great job, dude. I love that you chose to focus on ONE year only. I love the length. I'm still only half way through but i appreciate what you do a great deal.💜

[theMrRook]

These videos are my favorite format of yours, they complement the "Launch Of" videos so well! Do you have any plans to make one for the N64?

[hermanvonroth]

Thank you so much for doing this! This was a real pleasure to watch! On Christmas 1991 I got my NES with Super Mario Bros 3, but rumours had spread to Sweden about the upcoming system... My friend got it the following fall (it was released in April of '92 in Sweden) and all of a sudden my "new" NES became old... Bought an old SNES some years ago and started to collect the old games and today my collection also includes MegaDrive, NES, GameBoy and N64. Seeing these kind of videos make me wanna learn more and more about the games, developers and all - once again, thank you!

[bakerXderek]

Your videos are straight quality, loving them man !

[bishopinskipp]

I've just watched your video, along with the previous part. I've really enjoyed your recollections and stories about your mum and dad (I was quite choked up at some points)...not really sure why I've responded, just to say it was all quite moving and nostalgic..thank you.

[sammylane]

Dance Of The Holy Men is by far my most loved CASTLEVANIA theme, the moment it started playing a 2nd time at the games end, I smirked at Dracula.