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Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it
- mgliwka 10y agoIt's running Linux, btw.: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/11/nintendo-nes-classic-single-board-pc-linux http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/11/nintendo-nes-classic-sing...
- wodenokoto 10y agoWonder if it uses a 3rd party or inhouse emulator.
- rfauver 10y agoDeveloped in house at NERD http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1270032 http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1270032
- randomsofr 10y agoThey say that is running linux because they found some GPL licenses on the legal notice, but that notice didn't say anything about linux.
- quantumhobbit 10y agoHow long until someone figures out how to load retropi or another os onto it?
- grillvogel 10y agoI have a feeling this thing is going to be the tickle me elmo of 2016
- devopsproject 10y agodon't encourage the scalpers
- intralizee 10y agoSeems more of a warning to people that are late to Christmas shopping. Very likely this will be on eBay for $100 if short supply from Nintendo.
- muzzio 10y agoNintendo seems to do nothing BUT short-supply their hardware, based on their history with amiibo, the gamecube controller accessory, the original wii, pokewalkers...
- Lazlo_Nibble 10y agoThere are already a lot of completed "presale" sales on eBay for $125-$189.
- mstodd 10y ago*resource allocators
- serge2k 10y agoassholes
- bdcravens 10y agoSuppressed supply has long been in Nintendo's playbook
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- Someone1234 10y agoOnly negative thing I've read about this is that the controllers need a longer cable (yes, you can buy extension cables but they're $10 per controller, on a $60 system that is pricey). Aside from that it is a great value proposition. A lot of games, good hardware, and updated to work via standard HDMI/USB. I'm hoping that if this is a runaway success that Nintendo will consider doing a SNES, N64, and Gamecube version.
- runevault 10y agoIf this does even half as well as I expect, they would be insane not to do an SNES one. N64 and Gamecube are more interesting as, while both platforms had some good games, 1) the controllers were absurd, and 2) they don't have the same nostalgia feel with a wider audience that the first 2 Nintendo consoles do. What gets interesting is what games do they put on the SNES? I would dearly love to see stuff like FF 3/6 and CT on there, SMW... god building a list of 30 such games would take hours to trim down.
- cableshaft 10y ago> What gets interesting is what games do they put on the SNES? ...building a list of 30 such games would take hours to trim down. Took me ten minutes. Although if I knew it weren't super unlikely, I would sneak Uniracers and EVO: Search for Eden onto this list. Also, yes I know there are a ton more great games for SNES. It was an awesome system. But these seem like good candidates. * Chrono Trigger * Donkey Kong Country * Donkey Kong Country 2 * Earthbound * F-Zero * Final Fight * Final Fantasy 2 * Final Fantasy 3 * Harvest Moon * Illusion of Gaia * Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past * Mega Man X * Killer Instinct * NBA Jam * Pilotwings * Secret of Mana * Sim City * Star Fox * Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo * Super Castlevania IV * Super Ghouls n' Ghosts * Super Mario Kart * Super Mario World * Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island * Super Metroid * Super Punch-Out!!! * Super R-Type 3 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time * Tetris Attack * Zombies Ate My Neighbors
- planteen 10y agoI like those choices, especially Harvest Moon.
- jsheard 10y agoThey forgot to mention one nice detail - the included controller can also be paired with a Wii or Wii U by plugging it into a Wii Remotes nunchuck port. This means you can use the authentic controller to play the full Wii Virtual Console catalog, which covers many games not included with the NES Classic.
- ihuman 10y agoI am assuming that's why the cable is so short. If it was long enough to connect it to the console, it would be awkwardly long when connecting it to a controller you place next to you.
- mikewhy 10y agoI'd take awkwardly long over awkwardly short any day, the excess can be coiled and tied. If the WiiMote paired with the NES Classic then it wouldn't be so much of an issue. Keeping the cords short because they can be used with a controller that neither comes or works with the system is a bit misguided.
- pbhjpbhj 10y agoIf only there were a way to make a short cable longer when needed. If they ever invent it I'll be able to mow my whole lawn.
- bitwize 10y agoI wonder if the author of the article realizes that "protips", while being an internet meme today, arose as nuggets of gameplay advice from GamePro magazine, some for these very games. It hit me hard in the nostalgia feels to see that again.
- gallerdude 10y agoIn my experience, most small things like this that people do are very intentional.
- devindotcom 10y agoI was thinking of the little bits that used to show up in Nintendo Power and manuals and stuff, but looking back on them it was always "Power tips"!
- SixSigma 10y ago"pro-tips" appears as a phrase in this 1970 golf magazine http://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/golfd/page/1970jul61-70.pdf http://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/golfd/page/1970jul61-70.pdf
- Sargos 10y agoBut in gaming culture and all of the references you will see in this thread the phrase originated from PC Gamer as they used those words for their gaming tips.
- anonbanker 10y agoTry again: Gamepro Magazine[0]. The "Protip" was their intellectual property. 0. http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/protip http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/protip
- Sargos 10y agoUgh, yeah, GamePro, sorry. I got my magazines mixed up. I wish I could edit my post.
- satysin 10y agoI hope this sells well as I would love to see a SNES/Famicon Classic Edition. That was the console of my childhood :)
- shakna 10y agoI wanted this for Christmas. Every supplier in my area has sold out multiple times already.
- jsheard 10y agoThe NES Classics hardware is such massive overkill for NES emulation that I suspect they designed the platform to be reused in a future SNES Classic. http://www.technobuffalo.com/2016/11/04/nes-classic-more-powerful-than-wii-and-3ds/ http://www.technobuffalo.com/2016/11/04/nes-classic-more-pow...
- satysin 10y agoInteresting. I knew it would be good enough to do SNES games but I am quite surprised it is actually more powerful than the 3DS and Wii. Then again the Wii is 10 years old so yeah it makes sense. Wow that 10 years went fast.
- Kadin 10y agoThere can be a lot of emulation overhead, depending on how the emulation is done. So the fact that the hardware is more powerful than the Wii doesn't mean you could successfully do a high-fidelity Wii emulator on it. It was only relatively recently that you could run a high-fidelity (bit-perfect, cycle-by-cycle actual emulation of the underlying hardware) emulator of an N64 on a PC. E.g. Project64 required a Pentium 4 with 1GB RAM and a GeForce 9000 in order to emulate a 94MHz R4300i and its vector coprocessor. (And I'm not sure how many shortcuts Project64 takes.) Anyway, it might be that the hardware is overkill because they want to use it for other platforms, or it could just be that they're doing very high-fidelity emulation and are just beating the performance problems into submission with transistors.
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- xutopia 10y agoThe timing couldn't be better. My daughter is turning 7 just before Xmas and this is going under the tree!
- clw8 10y agoCool that your daughter is willing to play retro games (I assume), I tried to get my teenage nephews to play FF7 and as soon as they saw the blocky graphics they noped the f out. Sigh.
- greenshackle2 10y agoIMO sprites have aged better than early 3D.
- JoshTriplett 10y agoThe funny thing is, FF7 (and other early 3d games) aged far worse than early 2d games. There's a resurgence in indie platformers in the style of 2d games, while most of the 3d games from the N64/Playstation era just look outdated.
- comex 10y agoAs someone too young to have played FF7 when it first came out, I recently tried to play the PC port, but I just couldn't get used to the graphics... I don't know of any other famous game that's that ugly. Anything sprite-based looks just fine to me, and when it comes to 3D, even Nintendo's N64 classics, while they take some getting used to, aren't as absurdly blocky-looking as FF7. Maybe I'll try again some time, but I suspect I'll end up waiting for the remake.
- greenshackle2 10y agoYeah, I'm the same. It's a shame since I hear it's a great game, but the graphics turn me off. I still play earlier 2d RPGs (chrono trigger, earthbound, etc.) and PS2 era 3d RPGs (shin megami tensei, suikoden), but I never play PS1 era games.
- Touche 10y agoI wonder how much it would cost for the entire NES catalog, or even if they would be able to do that (b/c of licensing issues). I feel like if I bought this thing I would think about some game from my childhood and it wouldn't be included.
- zoidb 10y ago> Notice something about the title? Yeah, it isn’t Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! The game is exactly the same, but you fight a palette-swapped Tyson at the end — they made him white and changed his name to Mr. Dream. Sad, really, but how often did you even get that far? Turns out this is a great party game. What a shame :( I wonder how much extra money it would have cost them for the licensing.
- thrownblown 10y agoI don't think it's a license issue, it was more of that Mike Tyson criminal convictions that caused Nintendo to replace him when they re released the game.
- res0nat0r 10y agoHe was removed from the game because Nintendo didn't want to really be associated with him after the rape case conviction in the early 90s.
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- pfranz 10y agoThe NES did have Punch Out cartridges with Mr Dream. Mike Tyson was only part of a 3-year licensing deal Nintendo decided not to renew[1]. So all cartridges sold after 1990 had Mr Dream. Also, it wasn't just a palette swap (but it was similar) [2][3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch-Out!!_(NES)#Punch-Out.21.21 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch-Out!!_(NES)#Punch-Out.21... [2] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50d0fc0ae4b0c75e54db0249/t/5178bd3de4b0743cbe984ed7/1366867261955/TysonVsDream.jpg https://static1.squarespace.com/static/50d0fc0ae4b0c75e54db0... [3] http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/db528cfd3fffe0773534cadd48ba1b6e.jpg http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/db528cfd3fffe07...
- kp1234321 10y agoWould anybody else much rather get a raspberry pi and $30 in supplies to make it themself?
- maratd 10y agoIt'll come out to the same cost when you factor in the controller. This seems sturdier, includes all the games (legally), and can be easily resold when you inevitably get bored and realize you purchased a 30 year old console system.
- lochlan 10y agoToo pessimistic. Some people, such as myself, haven't stopped playing these games since the 80s. I can beat SMB easily within ten minutes, but I still get a lot of enjoyment every run. (To say nothing of the other fantastic titles!) Plenty of people have moved on to better technology and more sophisticated games, but let's not assume every player would get bored of these true classics.
- bitdeveloper 10y agoI think it's nice to have a Thing That Just Works once in a while. I never use consoles (my ps4 sits unused) because every time I turn it on, I have to mess with updates and stuff. I just want to turn something on, play it for 10 minutes, and stop. This will be perfect for me.
- pcsanwald 10y agoI recently did this. I bought a case, a controller, an SD card, and other stuff detailed in Jeff Atwood's Retropie blog post. I hooked all this up to my TV, installed retropie, FTP'd ROMs over, and... The gamepad I'm using works in emulation station, but doesn't work when I'm in the ROM. apparently it's due to thi issue: https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/564 https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/issues/564 I still haven't fixed it because I can't bring myself to screw around debugging a linux system after a long day of coding. So, I have no doubts that many people can and should use a retropie. But, my childhood gaming experiences didn't involve the location of the RetroArchs/config folder, and I'd really rather my attempt to relive that experience as an adult didn't, either.
- krylon 10y agoOh man, when I was ten, the neighbor's kids had an NES, and we spent entire weekends in front of it. It did eventually die down when we discovered AD&D, but still - we spent a lot of time playing Mario Bros, Zelda, etc. The wave of nostalgia hitting me is irresistible. Just checked: Amazon (in Germany) knows of this thing, but says it is not available. Does not list a price, either. :-(
- phereford 10y agoAmazon (in the US) sold out of all of it's Preorders within hours of the preorder launch a few months back.
- manarth 10y agoTechcrunch must have had a pre-release version for the review…the release date is 11 November (10 November for Australia/Japan). EU pricing is reportedly €59.95.
- logfromblammo 10y agoThere are only so many times that I will repurchase the same old games for the sake of nostalgia. This isn't like re-buying the white album again because the record vinyl wore out. Nor is it re-buying Thriller because the cassette tape broke. This is more akin to that time you bought Beauty and the Beast on Blu-Ray when you already bought it on DVD and on VHS. The only way I would be on board with this is if it shipped with every NES title Nintendo currently owns the rights to, and also had the capability to install the full catalogs of other companies, such as Square Enix / Taito, Tengen, Bandai Namco, or any of the other successor companies to the original NES game developers. Sell the complete NES catalog--or as close to it as the lawyers can work out--just one last, final time, and keep that same device on the market years into the future, and I will consider buying it. Otherwise, this is yet another iteration of re-buying the original NES games on a different console platform. Not falling for that, Nintendo. The review touts "only $2 per game!" but in today's market, $2 will get you far superior games from studios and developers that need it today to buy their top ramen noodles for the day after tomorrow. The original Legend of Zelda just isn't that great of a game, and I already bought it once. I'd rather buy something new (to me) through Steam, GOG, or Humble.
- bunderbunder 10y agoI've never purchased most these games because they weren't previously available to me at a reasonable price. (SMS as a kid, remakes for GBA were expensive, etc. etc.) For me, this product is pretty darned attractive. I tend to enjoy classic games more than most modern ones, and it gives me a much-desired way to play retro games without pirating them, at a pretty darn decent price. The only thing that could be better is if they were to just sell all the games bundled up in one application on GOG or Steam. I'd much rather have the option to play them on my laptop than be tethered to a TV all the time.
- drawkbox 10y agoInsta-buy, just wish the cords for the controllers were a bit longer but I guess they kept it real. Only real bummer is no Contra (they have the sequel), Metal Gear, Cobra Triangle or Blaster Master, maybe next batch.
- devindotcom 10y agoI begged them to add blaster master and bionic commando but no!
- toast0 10y ago> Only real bummer is no Contra (they have the sequel) I wish they would have put Contra instead of Super C, and Life Force (simultaneous two-player) instead of Gradius :(
- muterad_murilax 10y agoOr even better, Probotector and Probotector II: Return of the Evil Forces (the European and Australian versions of Contra and Super C that replaced the main dude-bros with robotic soldiers)! :)
- 6stringmerc 10y agoThis is something I look forward to purchasing all in (System, 2 controllers, cable extenders) for $30 in the Fall of 2017, because it doesn't look like a DRM/lock-in type system and I get a hunch these will pop up on CraigsList with regularity in the not too distant future. $60 + $10 + $20 for extension controllers adds up to me (that's 24 sets of guitar strings at 3 for $10 deal prices) but I'm not mentioning this to complain about their pricing model. I think it'll do great. Hence my eager anticipation to get one eventually.
- voltagex_ 10y agoWhat does DRM have to do with future / second hand pricing?
- milge 10y agoThe first time this was announced, I was excited to pick one up. From the article comments, I read about RetroPie. Since I had a raspberry pi lying around, I loaded it with BerryBoot and put RetroPie on it. A 20 year old Playstation to USB controller adapter just worked on RetroPie. We used an old xbox controller for the second controller and have had a ton of fun playing old SNES 2 player games. For the people not willing to put in that much work, this system will work perfectly.
- OrwellianChild 10y agoThe release of this actually prompted me to finally build a hardware emulator using Raspberry Pi and RetroPie. For about the same price, you can get a box and controller that will run Everything from N64 and PS1 down to the old school Ataris and NES games. Not a bad project and all the necessary kit is available on Amazon...
- serge2k 10y agoPlus you get added bonus of not giving the money to the people who made the games. I do use emulation, but they are making an effort to sell the games.
- OrwellianChild 10y agoI get it. It's a compromise, since I owned all those original systems back in the day. This is the same problem faced by other media during the transition to digital... The NES Classic isn't upgradable, can't add games, won't do SNES, nevermind N64. Similar efforts to play these old classics on 3DS would have cost $100 for the console and then $30+ per game for games I've already purchased, which are 30 years old. There may be a time in the future when there is an all-in solution to this problem, and at that point I might support the purchase of a 1st-Party solution, like I have with the rest of my media and hardware over time. I still avoid almost every digital-only, non-transferable purchase for the same reason, however.
- serge2k 10y ago> $30+ per game Drastically overstating the price of virtual console games. For example, http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/super-mario-bros-3-3ds http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/super-mario-bros-3-3ds edit: Ocarina of Time is 10 dollars on virtual console. The 3ds remake might be $30, but it is an updated version of the game. OoT is also < 20 years old, not 30.
- OrwellianChild 10y agoAt reply limit, but costs are all over the place... I was initially looking at N64 games in my scan, which is where I got the $30 for Ocarina of Time. Point stands, having a fully expandable/upgradable multi-system solution would cost far to much to be reasonable - especially considering this is paying for a medium shift on items I've already purchased. I understand the desire to support the company, and I'm not knocking it for those who are happy to throw $60 at it and dive back into their childhoods. It's a fantastic nostalgic product, looks great, and I have no doubt it will be a huge success. The product they are selling just doesn't meet my desire for a full NES-SNES-N64 retrospective.
- dpeterson 10y agoI can't tell if the part under "The Legend of Zelda" is sarcasm or I'm really that old: "Never heard of this one. Doesn’t look very good IMHO." Really? When I think of Nintendo I think of "The Legend of Zelda".
- fiatjaf 10y agoYou can rest assured it is sarcasm.
- daveguy 10y agoIt was sarcasm. It is the most recognizable game title in the world. His ProTip for Zelda II is a reference to a fluke character name [0]. The author definitely knows the original, The Legend of Zelda, and gave it that review as acknowledgement that Zelda needs no review. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_Error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_am_Error
- huangc10 10y agoAs much as I want to support Nintendo, I have to admit I've been playing NES and SNES with roms on the computer since early 2000s. My parents wouldn't buy me any game consoles or handheld devices so the computer was the only way to go. RetroPie and other hw apps would be fun to set up, but it's just so easy with emulator and roms that anyone can do it within a few mins. If you want the nostalgia, just download the emulator and roms and plug in a $5 usb controller. It'll be over soon and it's back to the PS4 or XBOX...
- drawkbox 10y agoIt is easy to ROM is but the appeal here the look, retro style and the controller. On top of that the ease for most people not wanting to setup anything. For Super Mario Bros 1-3 and Zelda alone this is worth the price. And now here is your chance to get that console you never got back in the day.
- sqeaky 10y agoAlso the cost. Many times when a product is re-released the company putting it out tries to get every penny they can from you. This could have cost double the price and many would still buy it, but it costs about the launch price of a single AAA title. If you this thing with an extra controller that is like $70 before tax. I have spent more than that on a decent mouse. It might be more expensive than playing ROMs if you already have a computer, already have a controller(s) and already have something set up in the living room. But I don't have that already and it would take me longer to figure how to do it well than it would take me to earn $70 at my day job despite my proficiency at pirating and already having several ROMS. This is the intelligent way to fight piracy. Release often, with high quality and cheap.
- loco5niner 10y ago>This is the intelligent way to fight piracy. Release often, with high quality and cheap. Many good examples of this: Netflix, Steam, and now Nintendo :-)
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- crench 10y agothere goes my winter.
- daveguy 10y agoBest review of The Legend of Zelda in the last 30 years: "Never heard of this one. Doesn’t look very good IMHO." HAH! Definitely laughed out loud. Great collection of games.
- fiatjaf 10y agoThe fact is that no one would ever buy a "Playstation Classic".
- opayen 10y agoWhy? I would buy it.
- anonyfox 10y agoDigimon, yugioh and tekken. Would buy instantly for three digit sums.
- disease 10y agoI'd be interested in Metal Gear Solid and Symphony of the Night but little else. It's funny how some consoles or eras of gaming have aged better than others. I think the best Dreamcast and N64 games hold up pretty well despite being from roughly the same early 3D era. Maybe it's just the old '95% of everything is crap' rule.
- jerf 10y agoThe Dreamcast is significantly more powerful than a PS1. It's much closer to the PS2. IIRC it's actually better than a PS2 on a couple of specific specs, though the PS2 is generally more powerful. At the risk of insulting some people's nostalgia, I never thought the PS1 looked good. I was in my late teens at the time and didn't have any consoles, but I remember seeing the commercials on TV. Problem is, the PS1 could theoretically do 3D, but it didn't really do it very well, so a lot of games would do 15fps in order to put more graphics on the screen. But they still didn't look very good, and even back then I could tell that 15fps wasn't really enough to play a game. It is true that it looked better at the time than it does now, but even at the time a lot of us were underwhelmed.
- macspoofing 10y agoN64 games, apart from a few select titles, are rough. That entire console generation does not hold up well.
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- nickysielicki 10y agoSo Nintendo is presumably just packaging some kind of modified FOSS emulator with their games? https://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#emergence https://www.nintendo.com/corp/legal.jsp#emergence I'd love to see someone rip the firmware out of this thing and see what FLIRT can see. It would be pretty ironic if they sold the same emulators that they've been against for years.
- ubercore 10y agoI'd presume they use the virtual console codebase, not a FOSS emulator.
- schwarze_pest 10y agoApparently, NERD aka Nintendo European Research and Development developed a new emulator. http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/08/nes_classic_edition_will_feature_a_brand_new_emulator_developed_by_nerd http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/08/nes_classic_edition...
- rasz_pl 10y agoits not new, it has same audio distortion as the wii one
- fiatjaf 10y agoI had the original cartridge of this Zelda, which I played a lot without realizing it was already a pretty famous game (with the SNES sequence already out). A friend of mine lost the cartridge. I forgive him now.
- wineisfine 10y agoI wish someone would also do this for C64.
- bane 10y agohttps://www.amazon.com/Commodore-64-30-Games-One-Joystick/dp/B000701CSM https://www.amazon.com/Commodore-64-30-Games-One-Joystick/dp...
- honkhonkpants 10y agoIt's funny that the NES Classic has an HDMI output, and the Wii has a composite video output.
- striking 10y agoAt this point it's cheaper to have just HDMI output rather than some sort of composite/component. Plus, the Wii couldn't achieve anything above 480p/576i... this has upscaling to 1080p for the "highest quality pixels" as well as its CRT shader mode.
- toast0 10y agoThe Wii came with a composite cable for maximum compatibility and component video for high quality. In 2006, many people still had CRTs with no HDMI and there's not a whole lot of visible difference between component and hdmi. In 2016, HDMI is a much better choice. Leaving it out would be strange, and saving the cost of outputting analog is worth it.
- aluminussoma 10y agoGood luck getting your hands on one. Nintendo appears to be botching the supply chain (as usual!). Stores know this will be one of the hottest products of the season but my contacts tell me they are getting very little information on when they will get more after the first day sellout and how many.
- stinkytaco 10y agoI mentioned this above, but I wonder if they are trying to stymie scalpers.
- jason_slack 10y agoWhat I find odd is that no retailer seems to have pre-orders. Game Stop says "Unavailable" and the same on Amazon. Nintendo doesn't have it listed to pre-order on its site either. I wonder who will carry these? I live in a small town that ironically has 2 Game Stops so I should be able to snag on on 11/11 if they are carrying it.
- fredoralive 10y agoEverywhere seems to have sold out their preorder allocation, you need a time machine to go back to July when it was first announced to place an order I think...
- jason_slack 10y agoOh wow I didn't realize that is when pre-orders were. Maybe I will get lucky at a local store on 11/11.
- stinkytaco 10y agoI don't recall it being available for pre-order when I looked. Because I had definitely planned to do that.
- stinkytaco 10y agoNintendo has been burned on preorders many times before, with many scalpers getting chunks of the inventory. Even some unscrupulous distributors are clearly putting inventory up on ebay for 3 times the price of retail. I don't know why there's no pre-orders, but that may be the reason.
- douche 10y agoIsn't restricting supply standard operating procedure for Nintendo? I want to think that I read about that with the original NES and SNES in Console Wars, but I could be mistaken.
- r00fus 10y agoSame with the Wii when it first came out. Couldn't get one for months and finally I gave up.
- colordrops 10y agoSeems quite a bit larger than it needs to be.
- gnarbarian 10y agoif they released this with the entire NES library on it I would pay more.
- rocky1138 10y agoBalloon Fight was likely included because it was programmed by the late Nintendo CEO, Satoru Iwata.
- rconti 10y ago$60. $60! I remember spending $65.99 of my allowance for Super Mario 3. Don't let anyone tell you that games are expensive these days.
- disease 10y agoI distinctly remember that getting 'Strider' for Sega Genesis as a birthday present had to count as the entire gift from my parents because of its $80 price tag. And that's in 1990 dollars! I'd argue that today's games are both less expensive and contain a wider array of content. Just look at all the stuff you get with something like GTA 5.
- atom-morgan 10y agoWow. I thought the increase from $50-60 a few years ago was crazy. I had no idea prices back then were higher.
- Keyframe 10y agoI have no luck pre-ordering one in Europe
- Orangeair 10y ago> The controller ports aren’t as satisfyingly analog-feeling as the old ones, but that’s really not a big deal. It's slightly ironic that the author says this, since there is absolutely nothing analog about NES controllers -- they're nothing more than a shift register internally. By contrast, modern controllers do in fact have analog input mechanisms (although they are of course communicated with digitally). It seems to me that "analog" and "digital" have lost their true meanings over time, and come to mean nothing more than "old technology" and "new technology" over time.
- nnutter 10y agoTo me "analog" vs. "digital" was analogous to "continuous" vs. "discrete". I would never have called an NES controller "analog".
- greggman 10y agoAgreed, especially because analog controllers have been common in video games since forever. Apple 2's joysticks were pretty much all analog. Was Pong analog? (I'm pretty sure the Atari 2600 paddle controllers were not analog, they're more like mouse wheel). The Atari 7800 had analog joysticks.
- csixty4 10y agoThe 2600 had paddles & "driving controllers". The former were potentiometers, the latter used quadrature encoding like a mouse. All the Pong (and clone) controllers I've come across were analog. But the Fairchild Channel F's controllers were digital.
- lowgman 10y agoI've got a bit of an industrial control logic background and that's my go-to framework as well :)
- l0b0 10y agoAnalog (as in continuous) was the holy grail back then. I was blown away the first time I got to try a real analog stick for a flight sim.
- pikachu_is_cool 10y agoI fucking hate jews.
- sctb 10y agoWe've banned this account.
- andrew_wc_brown 10y agoWhat I did was buy a for $80 bucks the original console. $20 for a new pin so games played right away, and got a 150 in 1 cartridge. 30 games? Pfff.
- samlittlewood 10y agoLooks like it is Allwinner R16 SoC - Quad A7 + MAli 400. https://www.pcper.com/news/Systems/NES-Classic-PCB-Pictured-Online https://www.pcper.com/news/Systems/NES-Classic-PCB-Pictured-... Wow - but I can see that it will be cheap.
- n-gauge 10y agoAnyone know if the emulator in this allows the -1 world trick in super Mario Bros? I have the wii u vc version but that doesn't...
- jedimastert 10y agoFrom everything I've heard, it's a bit-for-bit emulation, so probably?
- utw 10y agoIt doesn't have Faxanadu! Am I the only one missing it? Btw, a lot of games were unknown to me. I used to play Zelda II, which is a REALLY good game and the Marios, but I hardly remember the others. Maybe I have to blame the Italian importer at the time...
- shultays 10y agoPeople bashing retropie and says that this is a replacement for it but that is not true. It has only 30 games, no way of buying new games and (probably?) no controller support. If new nes had all this it would be an insta-buy for me but currently it is just a bad console. I am all for supporting developers, hell I made a homebrew nes game and earned some money with it. But this thing is useless compared to what retropie does. I would consider buying a second hand one just to use its case / controllers though.