1 2 According to Stephen Kent's The Ultimate History of Video Games, the official launch date was September 9.[25] Newspaper and magazine articles from late 1991 report that the first shipments were in stores in some regions on August 23,[26][27] while it arrived in other regions at a later date.[28] Many modern online sources since about 2005 report August 13.[29]
↑ The name "SNES" can be pronounced by English speakers as an acronym (one word, like "NATO") with various pronunciations, an initialism (a string of letters, like "IBM"), or as a hybrid (compare "JPEG"). In written English, the choice of indefinite article ("a" or "an") is therefore problematic.[13]
↑ The abbreviation "Super NES" is printed in a label on the bottom of the console as the "Super NES Control Deck" and is commonly used in various Nintendo peripherals and literature related to the platform.
↑ Though the use of "Super Nintendo" is common in colloquial speech and is officially called so by Nintendo of Europe,[14] Nintendo of America's official guidelines discourage it, preferring instead the abbreviations of "Super NES" or "SNES" in a formal context.[15]
↑ Super Famicom (Nhật: スーパーファミコン, Hepburn: Sūpā Famikon?, officially adopting the abbreviated name of its predecessor, the Famicom)
↑ In both The Ultimate History of Video Games and Purple Reign: 15 Years of the SNES, the disparity in sales is directly attributed to the SNES version lacking the excessive blood which was recolored grey and described as "sweat", and lacking some of the more gruesome finishing moves. See the Talk page for details.
↑ While some contend that Nintendo orchestrated the Congressional hearings of 1993, Senator Lieberman and NOA's Senior Vice President (later Chairman) Howard Lincoln both refute these allegations.[52]
↑ Unless otherwise specified, kilobyte (kB), megabyte (MB), and megabit (Mbit) are used in the binary sense in this article, referring to quantities of 1024 or 1,048,576.
