Nintendo's SNES mini pre-orders have sold out

The HDMI-enabled SNES mini will launch across Europe on September 29 with 21 classic games including Super Mario Kart and the previously unreleased Star Fox 2

It may have killed off the Classic Mini NES after a relatively short run of sales earlier this year, but Nintendo is continuing with its retro console revival – and it's paying off. Read more: How to make your own 'SNES Micro' using a Raspberry Pi

Just 24 hours since the Japanese company confirmed the Nintendo Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System will launch across Europe on September 29, pre-orders from Nintendo have sold out. There were consoles available from Amazon but these, too, appear to have sold out.

The SNES mini costs £69.99 in the UK, making it cheaper than the $80 US version. The console will ship with 21 games including Star Fox 2 – the unreleased sequel to the original Star Fox originally titled Starwing in Europe – as well as Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, Final Fantasy III and The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Scroll down for the full list of titles.

The Classic Mini: SNES will be sold with an HDMI cable and a USB power cable, and, unlike the NES Classic which charged extra for controllers, the SNES mini comes with two wired SNES Classic controllers as standard. It should be noted that not all the games on the list have multiplayer capabilities, and the Classic Controller and Classic Controller Pro designed for the Wii and Wii U will also work with the SNES mini.

SNES mini games
  • Contra III: The Alien Wars
  • Donkey Kong Country
  • EarthBound
  • Final Fantasy III
  • F-ZERO
  • Kirby Super Star
  • Kirby’s Dream Course
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
  • Mega Man X
  • Secret of Mana
  • Star Fox
  • Star Fox 2
  • Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
  • Super Castlevania IV
  • Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts
  • Super Mario Kart
  • Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
  • Super Mario World
  • Super Metroid
  • Super Punch-Out!!
  • Yoshi’s Island

You won't be able to load additional games onto the SNES mini console, but hackers were able to jailbreak the NES Classic Edition to run emulators so this may be a possibility in the future for the SNES (albeit, not an official one).

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The launch of the Nintendo Switch in March and last year's Pokémon Go runaway success fuelled the fire for Nintendo consoles and games. So much so that the NES Classic Edition sold out almost instantly when it went on sale in November.

Reports suggest more than 1.5 million of the miniature retro consoles were sold by the end of 2016 alone. It was then discontinued in April with Nintendo telling disappointed fans that it was only ever meant to be a limited run, initially for just the holiday period.

This article was originally published by WIRED UK