90's Trends: Electronics: SNES & N64

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The Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) was released in Europe in 1992 and was the second successful series of Nintendo gamecomputers after the Nintendo Entertainments System (NES), which was released in the 80's. The SNES was the best-sold gamecomputer of the 16-bit era. Between Nintendo & Sega, another gamecomputer manifacturer, a big "game war" was fought. Sega produced more fast and cool games such as Sonic the Hedgehog, whereas Nintendo released more child-friendly games like Super Mario World. In the end Nintendo won the "game war". The SNES is still very popular today, especially collectors and retro gamers still like to play the old SNES games.

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Some of the most well-known SNES games are: Castlevania, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy and the Mario series.

The Nintendo 64 (N64) was the successor of the SNES and was the 3rd successful series of Nintendo gamecomputers. The N64 was released in Europe in 1997 and was a 64-bit gamecomptuers, which was the last series of gamecomputers which used game cartridges instead of cd-roms and dvd-games. Game cartridges had some advantages over cd-roms and dvd-games, such as that it is more difficult to copy cartridges, are very reliable, are scratch-proof and they load very quick. But the disadvantages seemed to be greater than the advantages in the end and therefore it was the end for the game cartridge. Because the N64 had an original shape and a new type of controller, it was a moderate success with 30 million sold copies (even though they had to compete with the 1995 Sony Playstation).