Rare Super Famicom Box System Review - Gamester81

The Super Famicom Box was a system released in the early 1990's by Nintendo for only select hotels to use.

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[colinbaldwin]

YES! Back to the roots! I got in to you years ago with all your unique console reviews. You're the man John!!!

[BartlomiejRypel]

You can get a lock kit on ebay for cheap it's called "Tubular Lock Set Tool"

[jcharr]

Here's some more translations not mentioned in other comments:

4:05 ゲームの一覧 = "Game List"

4:30 ケームを選んで下さい = "please select a game"
At the bottom it says to use the up and down arrows on the D-pad to move the star and the B button to select a game.

4:42
1. ゲームで遊ぶ　= "play this game"
2. 遊び方の説明 = "how to play"
3. ゲームのデモを見る = "watch a demo"
4. 他のゲームを選ぶ = "select another game"
5. ためしに遊ぶ（無料）= "try the game (free)"

4:48 キーを差し込んでONにするとゲームができます = "Insert the key and turn to the ON position to enable playing the games."
キーはフロントで貸し出します = "You can borrow the key form the front desk"
(Aボタンで前に戻ります） = "Press the A button to return to the previous screen."

5:18 this is telling you how you can reset the game by pressing L, R, Start, and Select at the same time or return to the menu by holding them down for 5 seconds.

5:24 ムリョウ　プレイー中です = "Free Play"
あと２分です = "2 minutes remaining"

7:24 ボタンを押すとデモを中止します = "Press a button to stop the demo"

[mtshark]

Awesome review John! This thing looks pretty neat.

[kranibal]

Never seen this unit before. Awesome device. Thanks for posting.

[robertgijsen]

Hehe, when I started watching this video, I legitimately thought for a moment you were coming out of your TV :-D ie. Nice scene setup. Great piece of hardware too, informative video. Thanks John.

[JamesLewis]

LodgeNet worked with SNES games in the mid-'90s; I remember going to a hotel in 1995 that used it, and it wasn't until 20 years later that I learned there was ever anything like it for later Nintendo systems.

[fullmetaljacket]

At 3:45 it says "Machine is booting up, please wait". The weird thing is, it's written all in Katakana, which is usually used for foreign words. I've never seen something like this before lol
At 4:25 at the top it says something like "playing demo" and at the bottom it says "press any button on the controller". My understanding of Japanese if very basic so don't quote me on that.

[Gaming_since_the_eighties]

Interesting gaming machine, i didn´t know they have made a Super Famicom Box System.

[mgabrysSF]

protip - google translate (and I assume Bing would also work) in conjunction with a phone-camera to translate what's on the screen. Techmoan uses that quite a bit.

[Markimark]

I remember the SNES Lodge Net in hotels when I went on vacation with my cousins to Lake Tahoe.

[timezones]

My head almost exploded after seeing both the Power Glove and Super Mario Bros 3 in “The Wizard”.

[shanstenn]

The R12 key switch key is available on ebay

[supergeekmaker]

I have that but with donkey kong country and super bomberman 2 included

[silvervalleystudios]

Another awesome, obscure, Japan only exclusive.

[Lazyboy]

G81!! cool share man, thanks for sharing.

[Derik]

I don't think I've ever seen him without his hat!? I was so surprised about the change in appearance that I didn't even know what it was that was different for the first so many seconds.

[dr.joshdarealgamer]

That Golf game almost play like Arnold Palmer Tournament Golf for the Genesis.

[jeffish]

Excellent collector's item John! Very cool!

[ballandpaddle]

3:44 That blue boot screen says "Initializing the machine / Please wait for a bit." Maybe. My Japanese sucks. Great vid btw! Those SFC hotel box thingies gotta be ultra rare at this point.