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Ladies and gentlemen, we have the SNES-CD! Now, this is gonna be an interesting variant of the usual timeline as while we got the SNES-CD, Sony's still likely to release the Playstation next year. The pack-in game is Super Mario All-Stars, a compilation of older Super Mario titles: Super Mario Bros. 1-3 and the previously unreleased Japanese version of Super Mario Bros 2. (dubbed The Lost Levels) (Note: If this thing has enough memory for it, we can add Super Mario World to the disc to really up the appeal.)

To alleviate the anger of early adopters for the SNES, Nintendo added a special $50 voucher for any SNES game if they buy the standalone peripheral, which can also be used for SNES-CD games. Along with All-Stars, the following launch titles were announced: Super Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting (the major fighting game rep), Final Fantasy III (known in Japan as V), Secret of Mana (Square's other major RPG release for the SNES-CD), Disney Aladdin (Because of course) and Mega Man X (The mainline Mega Man franchise will continue on the vanilla SNES)

The early sales weren't great, but the Christmas season would see sales explode as kids had two big things on their wishlist that year, the SNES-CD and a ticket to the biggest movie of the Christmas season...