Classic Game Room HD – SUPER NINTENDO SNES controller review

@ChaplainDMK Then perhaps you can explain to me why the original PS controller looks EXACTLY like the SNES controller. Same design and button layout. Even the controller look almost the same! The only real difference is the grips.

I like how CRG sees the SNES as a successor to the NES, and not really as a rival to the Megadrive. Not many people look at it that way.

I own the European SNES game console and I have to say that both the Console and the controller look way better than the US one and I love USA stuff so much just saying, maybe it's because the US model came a bit earlier than the EU one so I guess they had time to do some adjustments. (And the European console looks like the Japanesse one…)

@sonicteam2k1 I really hate when you fanboys accuse other companies of "ripping off" or "copying" the controller. Using a similar idea is not copying.

the ds has the same button placement as the snes.

@sonicteam2k1 Alright: 1, He said he didn't know. 2, Proove it. 3, You're an idiot. 4: His reviews suck 'cause he doesn't know about some stupid rumour that you think is true but probably have no real evidence? Pleease, grow up and get a life.

your reviews suck, they did rip that damn controller. So what they added a few things, it's a newer controller, it's a fucking updated SNES controller

My only gripe with these things looking back is the fact that, with enough time and gamer frustration, the start and select buttons can can get mashed completely into the controller and actually end up under plastic shell, never to be retrieved again.

Both of the controllers that came with our original SNES have one or both of those buttons messed up. Then again, we did play a bit too much Street Fighter 2 on it's hardest difficulty.

My only gripe with these things looking back is the fact that, with enough time and gamer frustration, the start and select buttons can can get mashed completely into the controller and actually end up under plastic shell, never to be retrieved again.

Both of the controllers that came with our original SNES have one or both of those buttons messed up. Then again, we did play a bit too much Street Fighter 2 on it's hardest difficulty.

@worldruler10 The psmove isnt really a copy of the wiimote, it functions too much differently to be a copy. Besides, psmove sucks shit and even the wiimote is better

@kR0B45 I would still say your but let us stop this at once, my facts are, some of yours are correct, I see into that sony didn't copy Nintendo, The Vetrex and the 5200 were the FIRST analog control(not 3d analog though) the sega saturn came out before the daulshock controller which both came out AFTER the N64, but they didn't COPY, they just improved it (too bad the daulshock is better..) but you can't deny the PS move is a copy of the wiimote( all my say that and they are Sony fanboys).

@ChicoEdge No not the 3D controller, the regular controller. The n64 controller has the same 6 face button layout as the saturn/genesis controller. The gamecube controller did copy the saturn 3d controller though

@kR0B45 I assume you are talking about the Saturn's 3D controller? I don't think that Nintendo copied Sega. I think that the advent of 3D gaming made both companies realize that an analog stick was the way to go. The N64 controller was being developed in 1994 and possibly 1993. I'm not even sure that Nights was announced by then, let alone Sega's controller.

@ChaplainDMK Exactly, if you have to steal a design…. Just make sure it's not the Atari 5200 controller.

@worldruler10 The first consoles with analogue sticks on their controllers were the Vectrex and the Atari 5200, both in 1982 (14 years before the n64). In case youve never seen the PS1 dualshock, it has a completely different design, and more features than the n64 controller. If you want to play the "copy" game, the n64 controller copied the sega saturn controller, vectrex controller, and the playstation controller

@kR0B45 Fine, Sony didn't copy Nintendo they just "borrowed" their Ideas and yes the first analog stick was by Nintendo, but it was called a "digital" stick even though their is barely any difference, and the rumble idea was made into the Dualshock controller for the PS1.

I think that the european snes controller looks way better than the american one

@worldruler10
….Yeah but why did they make a different looking model to begin with? Region protection doesn't justify it in my opinion.

@worldruler10 Really? The n64 wasnt the first to use an analogue stick, sony has never had a rumble pak, and ps move sucks. I could give several reasons as to how the gamecube and n64 controllers were a "rip off" of others, but as i said, expanding/borrowing an existing idea is not the same as ripping off

@xyanide1986 The color of the buttons are different because they wanted the snes game pad to match the American snes model.

@kR0B45 One thing is that the n64 had the first analog stick and rumble pak and gamecube didn't really copy Sony and I heard that Nintendo and Sony were working on a Cd add on for the snes, so your have right but Sony still copied Nintendo till this day( PS Move).

I was hoping to get some answers about the buttons in this review, the japanese and european versions of the SNES have very different looking consoles, cartridges and controllers. In my opinion looking a lot better than the american release, why did this happen?

Nintendo helped develop the original PlayStation, which may explain why the controllers look somewhat similar. They're both awesome controllers.

I've never considered the PS1 controller to be a rip-off of the SNES controller. Button layout is a bit similar, but when used in game-playing, they feel completely different.

@worldruler10 Its one thing to rip off, its another to expand on an idea. Do you think that the n64 and gcn controllers are rip offs of the playstation controller?