Super NES Action Adventure Archive Pandora Game Console

A Super Nintendo shelf on one card

The Super NES Action Adventure Archive is built from the games people rented on Friday nights in the early 90s. It is mostly platformers, side-scrolling action games and beat 'em ups for the Super Nintendo, gathered on one GameCraZE card for your Pandora Game Console so the stack of gray cartridges can stay in the closet.

Nintendo's own games anchor the list. Super Mario All Stars and Super Mario World share the first spot, and Super Metroid and A Link to the Past are on here too. Around them is a long run of licensed games from the years when every cartoon and movie got a Super Nintendo game. A surprising number of those were good. Capcom's Aladdin is the one everybody remembers.

Some of what you will find

• Super Mario All Stars and Super Mario World
• Super Metroid
• Legend of Zelda A Link to the Past
• Donkey Kong Country
• Mega Man X
• Super Castlevania IV
• ActRaiser
• Aladdin
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV Turtles in Time
• Zombies Ate My Neighbors
• Wild Guns

That is a small slice. The full list is longer than most of us ever owned, so use Click for Game List to read the rest before you decide.

Beat 'em ups for two players

The beat 'em ups are where an arcade panel earns its place. Turtles in Time and Super Double Dragon were made for two people side by side, and on a Pandora Game Console that is how they play, with a stick and a row of buttons each. Zombies Ate My Neighbors works the same way and is still one of the best co-op games on the system.

One piece of trivia for Final Fight fans: the Super Nintendo port of the first game was one player only. That is a good reason to look at Final Fight 2 and Final Fight 3 on this card as well, since both let a friend join in.

Prefer the original controller?

Some of these games feel right on an arcade lever. Others were designed around the Super Nintendo pad, its shoulder buttons and a d-pad your thumb still remembers. Mega Man X, for one, puts weapon switching on the shoulder buttons. If you would rather play that way, we sell a USB Super Nintendo controller that works with the console.

Adding it to your build

Choose the Super NES Action Adventure Archive as one of your archive cards when you set up your Pandora Game Console. It goes in the card slot at the back of the console like the other cards, and you can swap cards whenever you want.

You need a Pandora Platinum Pro board to use it. The card does not work in other Pandora Platinum models or in consoles with a non Pandora Platinum mainboard.

**Pandora Game Console consoles do not come with any pre-installed licensed or unlicensed software. Any Added Archive service is provided as-is with no implied warranties or licenses. Performance of archive has been tested and will work with your Pandora Platinum Pro version console. Adding an archive card constitutes your acknowledgement of ownership of original licensed hardware/software and your request of the service permits us to perform archiving for you on your behalf as a service.