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Hi, I’m Greg, the guy behind the Anime Super Famicom Web Resource Center. It’s been around since 1997, about a year after I began importing Super Famicom games. I found out about this site when the site admin contacted me.

I bought a SNES as a high school graduation present for myself in the summer of 1994. The SNES had been around for a few years before then, but I was a late to the game. I had an Atari 7800 in junior high and throughout high school (I never owned a NES). I freaking LOVED playing U.N. Sqadron in the arcades, and I even went to see that stupid movie Dick Tracey TWICE the summer it was released just to play this game. I was thrilled to know that this was released for the SNES. I had a subscription to the old magazine Video Games and Computer Entertainment, which chronicled the delay for the SNES outside of Japan. In high school, I was evaluating whether to get a Genesis like my friend had, or a SNES. Becoming a real anime freak in the early 90s, I was interested in importing anime-licensed games. The SNES seemed to be easier to mod to play imports, it had games like U.N. Sqadron (which turned out to also be based off an anime), and it had many other games I was interested in. So, I decided on getting the SNES.

So anyhow, I found the Ranma 1/2: Hard Battle fighting game on clearance for $10 at the mall that summer, and about a week later, I bought my SNES. In 1996, I bought my first import SFC game, Ranma 1/2: Super Battle. Then after that, I bought other games such as Macross and Patlabor. I saw a great website in the mid ’90s called Anime PSX, which focused on Japanese import games for the Playstation. Since I was becoming a Super Famicom import collector, I decided to make my own site, dedicated to import gaming on the SNES. I used to get occasional contributing reviewers, but that tapered off around the mid 2000’s.You can check out the Anime SFC site by following the link in my signature.

I live in Japan. The town I live in actually doesn’t have many game stores, much less ones that carry SFC games. However, I know of other stores fairly nearby that sell retro video games. Unfortunately, I usually have to sift through a glut of soccer, pachinko, and horse race games wherever I find SFC games for sale, at least in my area. The better stores know not to buy back so many of these worthless games and they stock the better games.

Well, here I am. I look forward to talking about SNES/SFC games with everyone.

Welcome Greg
How cool you live in Japan!
Just visited your website and it looks really interesting. Don’t know much about Japanese games but I’m happy to learn!

Hi! I’m Tonindo and I live in Sweden. I’m not what you would call a collector, but I do own a majority of the games for the SNES that I feel are the most precious to me. I think that the 16-bit generation was easily the best.

I like to make video game remixes and I have a YouTube-page where you can listen to some of my work. Not all of the remixes are from SNES games though. http://www.youtube.com/user/To…..ature=mhee

Welcome Tonindo! Game remixes you say? That sounds interesting! I also think the 16bit era was the best and I feel very privileged that I could enjoy it back then and still can today! Curious what games you have and love to gear avout your most beloved!

Tom: I’m especially interested in the RPG’s on the SNES. My problem is that a few of them weren’t released here in Europe, so it’s kind of hard to find them for a reasonable price. I did however manage to get Final Fantasy III fairly cheap a few years back.

Masamune: I was feeling nostalgic this evening and googled around looking for SNES goodness and accidentally stumbled upon this cozy site.