Nintendo made waves when it announced the NES Classic Edition, a miniature Nintendo Entertainment System, and has released a short-and-sweet teaser to show off the plug-and-play replica in a new trailer.
The NES Classic Edition marks Nintendo's foray into the built-in-games console market. It will come with an HDMI cable and one of the NES's horrid rectangular controllers, and you'll be able to plug in Wii Classic Controllers since those peripherals use the same prongs.
Where many of these miniatures use shoddy emulation to run built-in games, Nintendo's manufacturing the NES Classic itself. Hopefully that means faithful emulation of the 30 pre-loaded titles included on the system.
Nintendo has attached a $60 price tag to the NES Classic Edition, available on November 11. The library of pre-loaded games spans a nice mix of first- and third-party masterpieces from the 1980s and '90s. Standouts include the Super Mario Bros. trilogy, Castlevania 1 and 2, Mega Man 2, Punch-Out!! (featuring Mr. Dream), The Legend of Zelda and Zelda 2, and Double Dragon 2.
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replyDavid Craddock posted a new article, New trailer shows off NES Classic Edition
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I love that they brought back the old slogan
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Now they need a mini powerglove for your d
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This would work for most Shackers ;)
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It's so bad!
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Kids normally say 3 feet away from the TV back then do 3.1 feet.
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Christmas #1. They won't be able to make these fast enough. They're just nailing absolutely everything except being able to add more games. I'm tempted to order one even though I've got all the games on any number of platforms and emulators. Maybe someone will hack it to run more, even if they solder the flash storage onto the motherboard.
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This is what a lot of people don't seem to get: Nintendo doesn't want you to be able to add more games. The NES Classic Edition checks two boxes: nostalgia trip, and sampler platter that whets your appetite for the eShop's larger selection old-school games.
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I got to admit, a complete OFFLINE system has a certain appeal these days ...
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That's another advantage. This retro sdstrm would be made decidedly un-retro if it could go online and let you buy games. Implementing that feature would entail more menus and troubleshooting, there would have to be customer service put in place to help those who couldn't get online and/or buy games.
Before you know it, the costs of making and maintaining it would outweigh the revenue Nintendo clearly hopes to gain by putting out a closed box they don't have to think about once it's out the door.-
I really like the idea that you will be able to see NESses at supermarkets and some parents will buy these as the first console for their kids. I like the idea of future generations growing up with fond memories of Mario Bros 3 or Zelda so maybe not all future game designers will think a game needs to have a stick and stone that you can slap together to make an axe.
Of course if they would instead get SNES minis that would be even better ;D
I'm not sure how often Nintendo can again sell me Super Mario World, Link to the Past and Super Metroid but I think one more is definitely in the cards.-
I'll admit, since Nintendo announced this mini NES I've daydreamed about pre-loaded versions of the SNES and N64. :)
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