Preface
Kids these days, let me tell ’ya. Back in my day, if you wanted to rent a game, you went to the video rental place and … What’s that? Oh, it was a building that had tapes of the movies you could watch … Tapes. They came on tapes. Quiet, let me finish. You had whatever was in stock to choose from. If all they had on hand was ActRaiser for the Super Nintendo, then you rented ActRaiser again, by God.
There were 721 Super Nintendo (Super NES) games released over the 8-year lifespan of the system in North America. If you had access to every game, then you would have the possibility of playing a new game every 4 days. This was a little better than the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). That console had 679 games released in North America ...
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