Playing With Super Power: Nintendo Super NES Classics

This book is really fantastic for all the Super NES fans. It contains a lot of informations about the hardware development, the accessories with greats pictures and even delivers some anecdotes. The book covers also the 13 Nintendo games (but not the third party titles like Super Mario RPG, Street Fighter 2 Turbo...) with many exlusive informations and beautiful original Art works. It is very full and really interesting so the Nintendo fans can't miss this excellent book. My only regret is about the Speedrun part for near each game (because It is interresting but not essential) that maybe could have been replaced by a more classic tips chapter. The paper quality is excellent and far from the Nintendo NES book released last year. To conclude, I really love this book !

Terrific book crammed with tonnes of details on some of the best games in the SNES library. This book only covers the games included on the SNES Classic so there are some notable omissions from the console's huge list of classics. I got the hardcover edition which is one of the nicest collectors editions I've ever had. The hard case has a luxurious soft, waxy feel and the page quality is top-notch.

Not bad at all. Worth a read!

I am finally writing a review of this, over a year after purchasing it! The first thing to point out is that this book is much better quality than the one Prima did for the NES classic. That had pages that were almost as thin as newspaper. This is of much higher quality, both the hard cover and the pages themselves. On to the content. I really enjoyed reading this book. For the games it covered, it’s excellent. It includes excerpts from the original game manuals, from magazines covering the games back in the day, lots of artwork, it includes ‘16 bits’ of information for each game, and even lists future games from each series. Coverage of each game also includes a speed running section, where speed runners discuss techniques and glitches for getting the best times on games. I didn’t think I would enjoy these sections as much as I did. It was genuinely fascinating learning about all the little techniques and glitches used for each game, and I googled many of them to learn more. My main gripe about the book, and the same applied to the NES book, is that it doesn’t cover the 3rd party games. I would have loved to have read all this information about Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy III (VI), Castlevania IV etc. Even if they covered less pages, it would still have been welcome. Surprisingly, Mario RPG is not covered in the book either, I presume because it was developed by Squaresoft, although it was published by Nintendo. Anyway, I would still highly recommend this book. I didn’t read it when I first got it, and that was a mistake. Once I started I couldn’t put it down, so it was well worth the price.

Amazing book. Lovingly created and full of fantastic artwork (some of which I haven't seen before) from way back. Looks great on my shelf and is the sort of book to pull out and refer to whenever you're playing a SNES game as a companion.

Got this for my partner and he loves it comes with so much information on the games he said it is a must have guide to owning a super nes

More of a quick tip for those curious than a review (the book itself is pretty fantastic), but the book I received from Amazon actually features the PAL / UK style SNES slipcover rather than the purple U.S. version as shown... while even preferring the U.S. version of the console itself, the UK version of the slipcover comes across a bit nicer in my humble opinion.

Simple really, if you're not a SNES and Nintendo fan don't buy it. If you are, a nicely put together tome in a market that lacks such books...in the UK at least.

Boken - super bra, bra kvalite m.m Frakt hantering av amazon - värdelöst. boken som är lite tjockare pakiterades i nått tunt omslag som frakt embalage, . Skulle ha skickats i kartong men det gjordes ej. Ytter omslaget sönder. Kan inte rekommendera att köpa tjockare böcker eller de som har ett hårt omslag från amazon då detta ser ut att vara vanligt förekommande. Så var beredd att du kanske behöver skicka tillbaka boken om du vill ha ett helt exemplar.

I will be the first to admit that the SNES is the King of All Consoles for me. The great thing about this book is the depth for each game that is presented. All of the games in the book are present on the new (NA) SNES classic (if you ever find one); although not every game that is on the Classic is in the book. Aha the conundrum...which to put in the book? Well aside from one Kirby game too many - in lieu of a true masterpiece like FF3 - all the games in the book are memorable. There are loads of pictures, info bites about the games, and pro-tips for speed runs and tricks of the trade. It's a lot of fun and if you ever do get a SNES Classic, put this sucker right next to it and watch your friends geek out.

Livro belíssimo, com gravuras muito bem impressas, acerca de um videogame que marcou gerações. Se você é fan de seu SNES, não deixe de adquirir o produto. Parabéns a Amazon! Meu livro chegou sem danos e extremamente rápido. Acerca do conteúdo: O livro contém uma série de curiosidades do Super nintendo e alguns detalhes de jogos famosos como: Super mario world, a link to the past, super metroid, super mario kart, f-zero, yoshi island, kirbys, donkey kong country.

Tiene muy buenas imágenes y recopila momentos clave de la consola y los videojuegos que tiene la súper nintendo mini. El mío está en inglés pero también hay la versión en español.

Phenomenal book! Well written, lots of great photos of the different SNES products over the years, and tons of information about the history of the system, its design, and the most popular games. The last chapter about the super fans is also a nice touch.