Hey guys, I thought you'd get a kick out of this. I met Lance at E3 6 years ago ( 2003) I won't bore you with the details about his career because you already explained it in a past thread. I just thought i'd update his pic from the days of Nintendo Fun Club News
Lance and his colleagues still works with both regions at Nintendo. I would assume sharing ideas. Though, Lance has been a spokesperson to the architectural design of the Wii console and the nunchuck controller.
He, is, unfortunately, also the designer of the US SNES. Line up the pitchforks and light the torches!!!
I don't mind our goofy ass SNES. That eject button was so wierd to me when I was a kid with my Genesis.
That's funny, because I got so used to having that eject button (we got an SNES relatively early on in it's life span) that when I finally got a Genesis (at about the end of its life span) I thought it was weird that it didn't have an eject button! :lol:
I love the U.S. SNES, but I have never used the PAL region or Japanese model. The US SNES has a sturdy, brick feel to it, but doesn't seem over-massed (like the PCE to TG-16 atrocity). edited for clarity
Beautiful or not, I would say the US SNES certainly has character. It almost has an industrial look to it, but the purple tones it down.
Personally, I think that all of Nintendo's consoles are pretty ugly. Nes, Gamecube, Wii, DS, Gameboy, everything's a bloody box!
The US Super NES was beyond ugly. Even my mother commented how "Fisher Price" the console looked compared to my Sega Genesis, and she was right. Anyhow, the Eject button was pretty useless really. It's not really a button either, more like a super loose Clutch pedal or something.
The thing that bothers me about the american SNES is the cartridges. They aren't that ugly, but SFC carts look almost Sci-Fi, like something from the future. ... at least to me.
NoA wanted a kid friendly design for the SFC, so they got it. IMo the problem is that it was dated, too 80ish at a time were new Macs were coming with more curved shapes, setting the design style of those years. Just a year later you had the redesigned Genesis and SegaCD MKII which were all curvey. But the worst was the GB: it looked like a friggin brick, while both GG and the TE were more natural shaped. Too bad batteries were more important:lol:
They were curvey? I'm pretty sure for the most part the Genesis 2 was Genesis 1 shaped minus the extra shit. Sega CD 1 was pretty snazzy with that tray!
