SNES Tin Star
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Tin Star is a 1994 Super Nintendo rail shooter developed by Software Creations and published by Nintendo of America, built around the Super Scope light gun and a cartoon Western setting that puts a blue robot sheriff against a town full of outlaw automatons. This is cart only, and it is one of the more obscure titles in the official Nintendo SNES library.
Software Creations had a productive run on the SNES, responsible for ports and originals across the platform's commercial peak years of 1993 through 1995. Tin Star arrived during the same retail window as Yoshi's Island and Donkey Kong Country 2, which is partly why it got buried. Nintendo was putting its full marketing weight behind the SNES's flagship platformers, and a Super Scope rail shooter aimed at a niche peripheral crowd was never going to compete for shelf space. The Super Scope itself was already fading by 1994, a peripheral that sold well at launch in 1992 but never built the sustained game catalog it needed. Tin Star is one of the last notable releases designed around it, and that alone makes the cartridge worth tracking. The game's cartoon cel-shaded look was ahead of what most developers were doing with SNES hardware at that point, and Software Creations squeezed genuine personality out of it: animated cutscenes, voiced character barks, and a full story mode rather than the loop-and-reset structure most light gun games defaulted to.
A robot sheriff, a plastic bazooka, and Nintendo's last big swing at the Super Scope.
This copy is cart only, so the original box and manual are gone, but the cartridge itself is what you are here for. Tin Star's rarity comes from low original production numbers, not from age-related scarcity, which means surviving carts tend to be in better shape than the cardboard that surrounded them. Check the label for surface creasing or ink fade around the top edge where carts get gripped and pulled. The edge connector pins on the bottom of the cart should show normal oxidation at most, nothing black or corroded. Run your thumb along the cartridge shell seam at the top corners to confirm the plastic hasn't cracked or separated.
OWNER VERIFY: Confirm cart is authentic Nintendo/Software Creations issue, 1994 US region release, with no label lifting or connector pin corrosion visible.
A robot sheriff, a plastic bazooka, and Nintendo's last big swing at the Super Scope.
The Nintendo Archive
This is part of Nintendo's 90s run, the era that built the shop's back wall. Nintendo shipped cartridges, plush, promotional oddities, and packaging that most buyers threw out on the way to the game. What survived, mostly by accident, ends up here. Every piece is cleaned, photographed, and listed one at a time. Nothing on the archive shelf is a duplicate.
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Inspected in Las Vegas on June 2026. Each piece is a single unit, sold as inspected.
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This snes tin star originates from the 90s era[01], represents Nintendo[02]'s output, . Each piece in the shop is a single unit, inspected by hand in Las Vegas before listing. The data manifest to the right records the fields on file for this lot; where a field is empty it has been omitted rather than guessed.
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