SNES Called What In Europe?

[damunzy]

May seem to be a weird question but I was wondering what the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was called when it was released in Europe? I know it was called the Super Famicom (Super Family Computer or SFC) in Japan. I am doing a research paper for my Game Development and Design on the SNES and this is just a little piece of information that I haven't been able to peg down.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Riffraff]

I think it was simply "Super Nintendo".

 

[Mise]

Yeah, Super Nintendo, or SNES.

 

[warpus]

Das Superwunderbarnintendobundesspiel

 

[Moggy]

I don’t know about continental Europe but in the UK it was known as the SNES. The Sega Genesis was known as the Sega Megadrive in the UK (and maybe the rest of Europe).

 

[Stormrage]

Super Nintendo and Sega Megadrive in Croatia too.

 

[Abaddon]

The Megadrive was better.

 

[Masquerouge]

In France it was called "Le super Nintendo"

 

[Thorbal]

Das Superwunderbarnintendobundesspiel

I really like that one! I think I will now implement this for everything I own... my Bundes-PC, my Bundes-Zahnbürste and of course my Bundes-Bier. This will ensure my total superiority in all communicative situations.

 

[nivi]

The Megadrive was better.

QFT man! I wonder if mine still works *runs off to check*.

 

[dosed150]

well the topic question has been answered but i think its worth adding that our snes looked like the japanese super famicom and not like that ugly square grey and purple thing the americans had

 

[Benefactor]

Mega Drive kicked that SNES thingy's ass. (UK)

 

[Mise]

SNES was better hardware, though. Imagine trying to run Starfox or Donkey Kong Country on a Megadrive... would be horrible.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Oh man, I am much too old for this console war, but the SNES had the superrior technology and the better games.

 

[Abaddon]

MegaDrive pwned it in sales though.

(love old skool fanboyism!)

 

[Luckymoose]

MegaDrive pwned it in sales though.

(love old skool fanboyism!)

I enjoy your blinded fanboyism.

SNES - 49.1 Million Units
Megadrive/Genesis - 29 Million Units

 

[GenMarshall]

Famicom (ファミコ&#12531 and Super Famicom (スーパーファミコ&#12531 are unique names for the NES and SNES in Japan, Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, and Taiwan.

Heck even the Japanese Famicom (NES) had a Floppy Drive Peripheral device!

Famicom w/ Floppy Disk Drive. Part of the Famicom Disk System

Nintendo's Famicom 3" floppy (1986)
Japanese Text reads: Legend of Zelda (Sorry, no pimpin Gold Cartridge )

Standard 3.5" Diskette (For comparison)

 

[Abaddon]

Surely NES cartridges held more memory than a floppy?

 

[Luckymoose]

Surely NES cartridges held more memory than a floppy?

Floppy's could probably hold more.

 

[GenMarshall]

Surely NES cartridges held more memory than a floppy?

Depends on what type of Floppy. The Real Floppies (the ones that are flexible, not the hard 3.5" ones)

An 8 inch Floppy from 1972 has an unformated capacity of around 1.5 megabit (Not Megabytes!) where when formated it has a capacity of 175kB. The 1.44 3.5" Floppies did not came out a year later when Nintendo made floppies for the Famicom Disk System. Though only a select few games had casings similar to the modern Floppy. While most of the games were released in a similar manner as their larger 5.25" flexible cousins (Using a paper envelope).