10 Things You Never Knew Your Old Super Nintendo Could Do

Who knew your old Super Nintendo could do so much!?! Check out our list of top 10 Things You Never Knew Your Old Super Nintendo Could Do! Did we miss anything? What do you think is the coolest feature? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

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Welcome back to the Gamer! Today, we are taking a look at the iconic Super Nintendo and 10 things you didn’t know your SNES could do.

Let’s start off with the Nintendo system itself. Has yours ever changed color over the years? Well if it has, you could be one of the very lucky few who own one of the earliest production models.

Next, we take a look at the peripherals. We all know about the bazookas and the pistols, but the ingenuity didn’t end there! Nope, there were tons of different things you could buy. Often times, the special controllers were a part of bundle deals, so if you didn’t know about them then, you probably won’t know about them today.

How about this: did you know that the Super Nintendo could accommodate more than 2 players? We didn’t either. And there are some games to support these large amounts of players. So far, we know of a way to have 5 gamers playing simultaneously and the games you can play together. Toward the end, we’ll give you all the information you need to pick these items up.

Lastly, did you know that your Super Nintendo is capable of playing online multiplayer and downloading additional games, maps, and music? Yep, Nintendo was among the first studios to bring their consoles online. Only trouble is, they didn’t bring it to America, so you probably haven’t heard about it.

Script by: Stuart Hall

Voice Over by: Sam Skolnik

Edited by: Kyle Mirzaian

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[sonnydude]

"Ten peripherals for your SNES you probably already know about"

[Mizzelphug]

"10 things I'm not quite old enough to remember first hand."

[melooutgaming]

“9 things literally everyone who has owned a SNES already knows and 1 thing no one cares about.” There, I fixed your title for you. You owe me 13 minutes of my life back.

[NostallYT]

“10 things that every SNES owner knows about the SNES”

[NOTLeavingLV]

Someone born fifteen years after the SNES was released trying to teach me about the SNES. just stop, please.

[MurasakiBunny]

10 things people have known about the SNES for over 25 years.

[roderick]

better call this video: 10 SNES accessories...

[draketungsten]

"Ten things I stole from other YouTubers who are much better than me."

[shakeyframe]

Dude they don't show the like to dislike ratio. That is one of the most sketchy things I've seen.

[Vocu]

the person talking sounds like they arent even old enough to have been alive in the 90s

[HoppingHatYT]

Yo I didnt know the snes had a Y button! Thanks thumbnail!

[Larry]

Worth watching TheGamer, just to laugh at their pure ignorance of gaming. XD

[Markuskhan]

Did you also know that 2+2 is 4 and Zelda is the girl, not the guy you play as?

[markula_]

If I ever meet Paul Rudd I'm going to go: "Oh my God, are you Paul Rudd from those Super Nintendo commercials?"

[ManageableRapTactics]

Please make a video about how to block your channel from appearing in my feed

[evknucklehead]

Okay, just a few things wrong with this video.

First, just because you have a SNES that was early enough to have the yellowing problem, doesn't make it more valuable. If anything, the reliability of the earlier units would be compromised by the brittleness of the plastic, and there were likely production changes in later revisions that were designed to improve the reliability further.

Second, yes the mouse could be used in those games, and the experience with the mouse isn't really that good, but the mouse itself is actually quite comparable to mice on PCs at the time, as Optical Mice weren't available yet or were too expensive for the average consumer, and Laser Mice weren't even close to being ready.

Third, there were multiple models of multitaps made by various companies, and even though they allowed you to plug in up to 5 controllers (8 if two multitaps were used), most of the games they worked with limited you to 4 players max, with Secret of Mana only allowing 3 players total.

Fourth, on the sports accessories, you speak as if the accessories themselves were made by Nintendo, which they weren't. They were made by a company called Sports Sciences and licensed for use with the SNES by Nintendo. Further, the games they were compatible with were also, for the most part, not made by Nintendo either, yet you also speak as if they were.

Fifth, the Satellaview was a one-way broadcast service, which means you didn't get any communications features like modern online gaming, nor On-Demand access to the content. It just downloaded whatever the service was sending at the specific time. If the signal got noisy and corrupted the download for the day, you wouldn't have access to anything new until the next time they sent it out, and you might miss out on something if they only sent it that specific day.

Sixth, on the Super Advantage, there were other similar controllers produced by various companies similar to the one shown. Also, the company's name is pronounced Ass-kee-ware, which is the official pronunciation of ASCII, or the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, followed by Ware.

Finally, regarding the design of the SNES, this seems anecdotal to me. Does anyone have a legitimate quote from someone on the design team regarding this coaster thing? Yes, it seems like a logical design choice given what could happen with the NES's shape, but the main reason they made the NES that shape originally was so it would be compared more to a VCR than the traditional top-loading cartridge design common to nearly every console before and after it.

All in all, try to put a little more quality into the videos by improving the research behind them and you'll have a much better channel overall. Most people would prefer a few high-quality videos a week instead of 2-3 poor quality videos per day, like you seem to be focused on.

[DemomanX]

Dude why do you make these list like you just discovered the system? Seriously, "did you know it had a mouse?" It's like you just slapped the list together from stuff you did a quick Wikipedia search from.

[WhiteAndNerdy]

Video was obviously made by somebody born AFTER the SNES days. Having grown up in the 80s/90s, none of these 10 things were unknown to me (or my entire generation) whatsoever.

[natelawrence]

Fun fact: The Super Scope is just called the Super Scope.
"Super Scope 6" is the name of the 6--minigames-in-one-cartridge that was made to showcase the peripheral.

[DonAlejandro]

10 things your SNES can do: 1. „it can be yellow“ 😂