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Re: Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it

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Post by douche »

jason_slack wrote: post #110

What 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.

Isn'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.

Re: Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it

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Post by justintime2002 »

korethr wrote: post #91
cableshaft wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 Coun…

That list seems a bit weighted towards JRPGs, though many are well known, and it seems like the SNES had several to choose from. As much as I must admit I have a moral obligation to complete every one that you mentioned (except Chrono Triger, did finish that one), I think it'd be good to include some types of games. What about, say, Earthworm Jim, MegaMan X2 or X3, or one of the Mortal Kombat titles? I have to agree…

It's incredibly hard to narrow down to 30. The above list is missing Super Mario RPG even though it's weighted towards JRPGs.

Re: Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it

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Post by korethr »

cableshaft wrote: post #99
korethr wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That list seems a bit weighted towards JRPGs, though many are well known, and it seems like the SNES had several to choose from. As much as I must admit I have a moral obligation to complete every one that you mentioned (except Chrono Triger, did finish that one), I think it'd be good to include some types of games. What about, say, Earthworm Jim, MegaMan X2 or X3, or one of the Mortal Kombat titles? I have to agree…

I had Mortal Kombat 2 on there until right at the end. I considered the ones you mentioned. Earthworm Jim seems more like a Genesis game to me, and I didn't think Capcom would be too keen on giving Nintendo all their Mega Man games, considering they like to repackage and resell them about once every couple of years. Again, I'm not saying my list is definitive and there are no other worthy contenders. It was mainly so…

I was going to argue that if one was going to include an MMX game, it might as well be X3, because it had a different ending than then Saturn/PSX port that more people have played. However, doing some searching, I can't find any evidence for that now. Oh well, any of them would do -- all three were good.

> Also, many would argue the SNES was when JRPGs were at their height and the main thing that differentiated the platform compared to the Genesis.

This, I can't argue with. Now that I think about it, a lot of the SNES titles I've played were JRPGs.

Re: Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it

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Post by mgliwka »

randomsofr wrote: post #128
mgliwka wrote: post #45

It's running Linux, btw.: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/11/nintendo-nes-classic-sing...

They say that is running linux because they found some GPL licenses on the legal notice, but that notice didn't say anything about linux.

Thanks for clarifying that.

Re: Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it

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Post by dlevine »

huangc10 wrote: post #61

As 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 em…

I've played them all with emulators (and on my original NES when I was a kid), but I'm still irrationally excited about this.

Re: Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it

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Post by huangc10 »

daveloyall wrote: post #109
huangc10 wrote: post #61

As 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 em…

I've always had lower end hardware than my peers (still do, except at work!) so maybe you had a different experience than I did... But here goes my experience: Emulators are much harder to play than the original console because milliseconds matter! Maybe not so much for puzzle games (like the Zelda franchise)[0] but certainly for action titles... I don't know much about this "RetroPie", but it sounds like a raspberry…

Great points. Yeh, I was more of an RPG enthusiast. Dragonball, Pokemon etc. when I did play action games, I didn't notice too much but I'm sure you're right, there probably was delay. I didn't have controllers back then anyway. I always just used the keyboard...

Re: Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it

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Post by jason_slack »

jason_slack wrote: post #110

What 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.

I called my local Game Stop and they said they will have stock. First come, first serve.

Re: Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it

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Post by huangc10 »

dlevine wrote: post #136
huangc10 wrote: post #61

As 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 em…

I've played them all with emulators (and on my original NES when I was a kid), but I'm still irrationally excited about this.

haha..I was definitely excited..I still am.
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