This is an early Nineties PAL version of the Super Nintendo. Know as the Super Famicom in Japan, it was the most successful console of the 16-bit era (4th Generation) – one of my favourite consoles.

This one is from a UK Super Mario Allstars version, the console is in mint condition and still has the original box, polystyrene inner and all the leads and manuals.

This photo is the result of an experiment with makeshift lighting. I placed the console on a sheet of white A1-sized card in a darkened room and used another blue sheet of card as the background. I shone a 1 watt LED torch at the background for about half of a 6 second exposure. I was fairly pleased with the result. I straightened it and then uploaded the wrong picture – so it’s a little wonky. I’m going to buy a strobe. Probably a Nikon SB-900.

Photo by Kitschiguy See some more Nintendo photos here