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Nintendo Power Podcast

Super NES 30th Anniversary: Our Favorite Games, Memories & More!

Nintendo Power Podcast

Chris Slate

Video Games, Leisure

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System™ burst onto the scene in North America 30 years ago this month, sparking a new era of classic Nintendo experiences like the Super Mario World™, Super Metroid™ and The Legend of Zelda™: A Link to the Past™ games. In honor of the occasion, Chris is joined by Sam from Nintendo Treehouse and David from the Communications team at Nintendo of America to share their favorite Super NES™ games and memories. Also, the group gives extra attention to Super Mario World in Nintendo Power Game Club, discusses the results of Super NES fan polls, takes a Super NES quiz, and picks their most anticipated upcoming games for the Nintendo Switch™ system. Now you’re playing with power…SUPER power! 00:40 – Super NES 50:41 – Player’s Pulse 54:33 – Nintendo Power Game Club: Super Mario World 1:08:10 – Warp Zone Quiz 1:12:29 – Game Forecast Ending music is from Super Mario World. Games discussed have been rated EVERYONE to MATURE by the ESRB. If you would like to share any feedback or ideas for the podcast, or submit a question to possibly be answered in a future episode, please email us at [email protected]. Follow Nintendo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nintendo/ Follow Nintendo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica Subscribe to Nintendo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nintendo

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0:00.0

Games rated E to M.

0:05.9

Welcome to Nintendo Power Podcast.

0:16.8

This episode we look back on 30 years of Super NES, it's best games in our favorite memories.

0:30.6

My name is Chris, and this episode I'm joined by Sam from Nintendo Treehouse High Sam.

0:34.6

Hello!

0:35.6

And David from the Communications Team at Nintendo of America. Hi David!

0:39.3

Hey!

0:40.7

Now, this is a really special month for me because 30 years ago the Super Nintendo Entertainment System

0:45.5

launched in the U.S. and the Super NES is one of my all-time favorite consoles,

0:49.6

so that I thought it would be really fun to share our stories about the system and

0:53.1

and our favorite games, so should we just jump right into it?

0:56.1

Sounds good.

0:57.3

Yeah, let's do it.

0:58.4

Awesome. So, you know, to start things off, Sam, when you think about Super NES, what comes to mind?

1:04.0

Oh goodness, um, one of my earliest memories of the system is actually when I got the Super NES,

1:12.9

when my dad would get home from work, he would bring us like a Ghostbusters figure or something like

1:18.9

that, you know, the real Ghostbusters cartoon was on at that time, we were really into it.

1:22.5

And every now and then he'd bring us a toy.

1:24.8

But I remember coming home from school one day, and my dad was already home,

1:28.0

which was rather unusual, and he said that he had a surprise for us.

1:33.1

And we didn't know what it was, but, you know, we were expecting something on the level of,

1:37.4

like I said, you know, a Ghostbusters toy or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or something like that.

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