The Internet of 2025 is very different from the Internet of 2001 when I first started this website. The Internet of 2001 was chaotic. If you found an interesting site, but wanted to find similar content, your first instinct was not to "Google" it, because at that point search engines were kind of rudimentary. Rather, you would go to go to the links page of the website. The Internet was a collaborative place, where to succeed it was beneficial to help out other people making sites with similar interests by giving them a shout-out. The 2025 Internet is controlled by mega corporations that increasingly want to wall off the Internet, and stop you from the joy of exploring. SNES Central has always had a philosophy of letting the user have control of what they want to see. The interface has purposely kept a Web 1.0 style design (originally designed in 2005!), without a search function, allowing the user the joy of exploration. The Links page was something I removed at one point because search engines were pretty good at allowing you to find other sites that were of interest. At this juncture, with major search engines shoving generative AI down our throats, this is no longer the case. As a result, I have revived the Links page, with a selection of websites that I think will be of interest to those who visit SNES Central. It is my hope that with my return to the retro gaming scene that I will find new sites to add.

Dual Force is an unreleased game that was developed at the Human Creative School. The developer posted some screenshots on Twitter in 2023. I have written a summary of what little information is available for this game.

Now that I am back to updating this site, I figure that it is a good idea to update the unreleased games list of SNES Central. I have not updated it since writing the unreleased games section in Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the SNES Library, and a number of unreleased games have come out in the past 6 years. I am starting with Mer Wars, which is a short demo created by Synergistic Software as a pitch. I have included some images of the documentation from this pitch, which were from an auction in 2019.

It has been two years since the last post, but I thought I would give an update as it is the 24th anniversary of this site. Last year was a crazy busy year in my life, and 2025 might very well be the same. I can't promise when yet, but I do hope to start doing some updating of the site on occasion this year. I feel with the rise of AI generated slop infecting the Internet that it is important to have this old school site up and running with new, verified information. ;)

Perhaps it should be obvious by the fact that there were only four updates on SNES Central last year, but work on this site is not currently a priority for me. I have spent a bunch of time during the past few years to create a database system for SNES Central that was pretty much essential to manage all the data on this site. This system is actually probably about 75% complete, and much of the most difficult aspects have been coded. However, for a number of reasons, I have not been able to commit time to finishing it to allow updates on the site to resume. First of all, I am actually working on another archival project that is unrelated to video games, and this is a bigger priority for me. Secondly, in the past few years much of my free time has been taken up by other activities, namely learning Japanese and running.

Because of these things, I would consider SNES Central to be on hiatus for the foreseeable future, at least until the other archival project I am working on is complete. It is fine to continue sending me things (through email is best), but please be aware that it may be years before they get put onto the site. This site is not going away, and at some point I will resume updating. When that happens, I will post here.

Pokémon Gold and Silver is a bootleg platforming game featuring Pokémon from the second generation of the series. Many thanks to Edgar "Mcfly" Gonzalez for sending in the pictures of the bootleg!