Nintendo Super Famicom Box

Background
The Super Famicom Box is a video game system created by Nintendo as a successor to the M82/Famicombox. It incorporated a "pay to play" mechanism in a manner similar to arcade machines, having a coin acceptor for time-limited playing of video games. It was sold only in Japan in the early 1990s and was only available for installation in hotel rooms. A second revision of the system, the Super Famicom Box 2, was released a few years after.

(1992-1994)


Visuals: We see an orange background fading in, as 8 stars are shown quickly appearing from the corners and sides, merging into the center. This makes a yellow circle, which rises up and then changes itself into Kirby, as four stars appears moving away behind him. Kirby falls down to the bottom of the screen, then faces up with his left arm raised, as stars come out behind him again, and a spinning coin appears above his left arm, containing a Kirby sketch in it. The coin stops spinning and shines. Kirby and the coin move to the left, as a /yellow folded ribbon with the text "SUPER FAMICOM BOX" in three lines, along with a registered mark, falls down at the left of him. Then a group of two star stripes with the Nintendo wordmark and registered mark in-between fades in, originally in white, these later changing into the following colors: the Nintendo logo in blue, and the stars in shifting patterns of, yellow, and. The Kirby coin is also shown spinning and shining, like previously mentioned.

Technique: 16-bit animation.

Audio: A triumphant horn fanfare is heard at the beginning, with an ascending chime sound effect when the stars merge, "womp" sounds when Kirby appears and falls down, a "ding" once the coin appears, and a rubbery sound when the Super Famicom Box ribbon logo appears. The music changes into a 16-bit arpeggiating beat after all the elements are shown.

Availability: The Super Famicom Box was only available in Japanese hotels during the early-1990s and was discontinued after. It is unknown how many of these systems were produced. Finding them in Japanese marketplace sites is the only preferable way to get a hand of these systems, but as mentioned before, few of them may have existed.