The Super A'Can is a video game console released in Taiwan on October 25, 1995. Although it is often compared to the Super Nintendo, it is, in many ways, cosmetically more like the SNES and internally more like the Sega Genesis. The system has an SNES-like control pad and appearance, but Sega Genesis-like internals - for instance, the system used the same Motorola 68000 processor as the Genesis. The system is not compatible with the Genesis (or SNES for that matter). The system was developed by a Taiwanese company called Funtech specifically for the Taiwanese market, and was not a pirated system. The system was graphically about on par with the SNES, and most of its games are similar in gameplay to popular SNES games of the time.
What Makes It Obscure?
Even in Taiwan, the system was not a great success. Had the system been released two years earlier, it likely would have seen much more success. The late 1995 release of the system put it in competition with the 32 bit systems such as the PlayStation and Sega Saturn, and the Super A'Can was a generation behind. The system was eventually discontinued. (A discontinuation date wasn't found, but is likely around 1997). Only 12 games were released for the system. Combine that with a total lack of release outside Taiwan (in the mid-2000s, it was said that only four systems were outside Taiwan) and you have a very obscure console on your hands.
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