Wasn't going to post again about it, but now I've had a chance to read some of that special Super Play issue, it's so great I just had to.
Obviously Wil Overton drew the cover art, but they also got back the original writers, and the page layout inside looks so authentic I wouldn't be surprised if they dug out the original QuarkXPress project files. Colours, fonts, everything is spot on.
It's 52 pages which didn't sound a lot, but considering the lack of advert pages, content wise it feels close to a full length mag.
There's a feature on the Classic, and the beginnings of the SFC/SNES and Super Play itself, a preview of Star Fox 2 (no official review due to an NDA, they say), an interview with Dylan Cuthbert (Star Fox 2), an Anime World feature, 20 full reviews of the rest of the SNES Classic games (1 or 2 pages each), 5 smaller 'Import' reviews of the extra SFC Classic games, and a What Cart special of the games they wished had also made it onto the system.
Highly recommended.
I still can't get over how Nintendo didn't include Pilotwings, though.