Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Nintendo answered Sega with the Super Famicom in Japan in November 1990, launching with Super Mario World and F-Zero. North America got this boxy gray-and-purple version, the Super NES, in 1991, while Japan and Europe kept a rounder case. Its color palette, sound chip and Mode 7 scaling carried an extraordinary library, with A Link to the Past, Super Metroid, Final Fantasy VI, Chrono Trigger and Street Fighter II among them. It finished as the best-selling console of its generation.