The Classic Mini Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) could be coming to a games store near you.

Nintendo has registered a new trademark for a controller shaped like the one it used for the Super Nintendo in the 1990s.

A Twitter bot that scours the web for patents logged the new trademark last week.

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Twitter bot @trademark_bot scours the web for new trademarks, and fished out Nintendo's latest patent on Christmas eve

NINTENDO'S CLASSIC MINI NES The Classic Mini Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console was released by the Japanese gaming giant earlier this year. It proved to be a faithful recreation of the classic 80s console. The console was incredibly popular, selling out after just a couple of days on sale. With such a successful first attempt at a console reboot, it would be no surprise if Nintendo planned to re-release the vastly popular SNES some time in the future. Advertisement

The SNES, known as the Super Famicon in Japan, was Nintendo's 16-bit followup to its hugely popular NES console.

The SNES came with a host of popular games, including Street Fighter 2, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World, and the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.

It is one of the top 20 best-selling games consoles of all time, recording 49.1 million units sold during its retail run from 1990 to 2003.

But Nintendo's new patent is no guarantee that it will re-release the classic console, as the trademark could just be to protect the company from fraudsters.

'Numerous companies have been using the exact SNES controller design for their knock-offs,' wrote one commenter on the gonintendo forum.

'This trademark could be an attempt to curb that.'

The Classic Mini Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console was released by the Japanese gaming giant earlier this year, and proved to be a faithful recreation of the classic 80s console.

Nintendo have registered a new trademark for a controller shaped like the one it used for the Super Nintendo in the 80s and 90s (pictured). A Twitter bot that scours the web for patents logged the new trademark earlier this week

The console was incredibly popular, selling out completely after just a couple of days on sale.

And with such a successful first attempt at a console reboot, it would be no surprise if Nintendo planned to re-release the vastly popular SNES some time in the future.

The Kyoto-based company is coming off the back of a bumper year, in which it launched its first smartphone game 'Mario Run' and announced a fully-fledged new games console, the Nintendo Switch.

With the Switch likely to be the company's main focus for 2017, gamers will probably have to wait until at least Christmas 2017 to see a rehashed SNES console.