Quote Originally Posted by poloplayr


Last weekend, months after video-game addicts started calling, Dave Adams finally was able to sell them what they craved: Super Nintendo.

Adams, manager of Babbages in South Coast Plaza, got 32 of the $199.95 systems Friday. By Monday afternoon he had five left.


Thanks for those very informative articles poloplayr. That pretty much confirms it. It appears that SNES systems started arriving as early as Wednesday August 21st, 1991. Most outlets got their shipments on Friday, August 23rd 1991. So it appears with the SNES, that it didn't have a carved in stone release date, but the earliest known account of SNES systems arriving for sale was Wednesday August 21st 1991, so far all intents and purposes, I think we can safely say that was the launch date. Now if we could just notify Wikipedia so they could stop the mis-information with their incorrect August 13th release date.