While other companies were moving on to 32-bit systems, Rare and Nintendo proved that the SNES was still a strong contender in the market.
Nintendo ceased production of the SNES in 1999,[REF] about two years after releasing Kirby's Dream Land 3 (its last first-party game for the system) on November 27, 1997, a year after releasing Frogger (its last third-party game for the system).