Jun 10, 2026 · 1 hr 57 min · 13 segments
The Super Nintendo and Super Famicom have some of the greatest games ever made. But what sort of output did the system have in its twilight years? Today on XVGM Radio, Mike and Ed look at the late…
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And as you can tell from that song that came in, we're in for some doozies today.
This one was actually a surprise.
It was from the Super Famicom version of Columns, which was only released in Japan in the late, late year of 1999.
That was the Versus Mode credits song composed by Hikoshi Hashimoto.
I had no idea that there were even games that came out past like 97, 98.
I think Frogger was the last officially licensed Super Nintendo release in North America.
So the fact that we got releases even later than that is just pretty shocking to me.
But it also kind of speaks to the fact that the Super Nintendo was immensely popular in Japan.
You know, the Super Famicom.
It was still very, very popular and it was still selling quite a bit to, you know, not everybody was ready to upgrade to a more expensive system like the N64 at that time.
And so I think Super Nintendo really kind of had a pretty lasting life cycle.
It was like one of the first systems that really had something beyond what the normal life cycle of a console would be.
Yeah.
And the Super Famicom actually had a ton of titles released in 2000 as well, which shocked me.
Yeah.
They were mostly, like, derby racing betting games and Mahjong games.
And, you know, probably because I think the parents and the grandparents might have inherited their kids' Super Nintendos when the PlayStation and the Saturn came out.
So maybe they just wanted them for some distractions.
Yeah.
Those are all the games that, like, if you go to a local game store, you'll find, like, the Mahjong and the horse riding, like, derby stallion, stuff like that.
Those
are the non-behind-the-counter Super Famicom important games.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That
nobody buys and nobody wants, right?
And as you can tell from that song that came in, we're in for some doozies today.
This one was actually a surprise.
It was from the Super Famicom version of Columns, which was only released in Japan in the late, late year of 1999.
That was the Versus Mode credits song composed by Hikoshi Hashimoto.
I had no idea that there were even games that came out past like 97, 98.
I think Frogger was the last officially licensed Super Nintendo release in North America.
So the fact that we got releases even later than that is just pretty shocking to me.
But it also kind of speaks to the fact that the Super Nintendo was immensely popular in Japan.
You know, the Super Famicom.
It was still very, very popular and it was still selling quite a bit to, you know, not everybody was ready to upgrade to a more expensive system like the N64 at that time.
And so I think Super Nintendo really kind of had a pretty lasting life cycle.
It was like one of the first systems that really had something beyond what the normal life cycle of a console would be.
Yeah.
And the Super Famicom actually had a ton of titles released in 2000 as well, which shocked me.
Yeah.
They were mostly, like, derby racing betting games and Mahjong games.
And, you know, probably because I think the parents and the grandparents might have inherited their kids' Super Nintendos when the PlayStation and the Saturn came out.
So maybe they just wanted them for some distractions.
Yeah.
Those are all the games that, like, if you go to a local game store, you'll find, like, the Mahjong and the horse riding, like, derby stallion, stuff like that.
Those
are the non-behind-the-counter Super Famicom important games.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That
nobody buys and nobody wants, right?
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