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I'm amazed at the ridiculous pricing for these games. On Wii U, all of these classic games would cost $5 each . $60 for a physical device and 30 games is extremely generous by Nintendo standards. Edit: if only it had River City Ransom...
I own an NES and quite a few games but this seems like an instabuy for me. Solid list of games. Metroid, Castlevania 1+2 and both Zeldas. Tecomo, the Mario games, and Ghost 'n' Goblins to keep you frustrated. Pretty cool actually that they chose to go with the small form factor.
It's almost as if they priced it so every 35-ish year old in the USA would buy one instantly. I know I'm in that camp.
For example some great games like Final Fantasy 1 were never released in Europe.
Also the controller can be useful for those that want to play games from the Wii Virtual Console.
Please have Super Sprint, please have Super Sprint......nooooooooooooooo! Oh well, I'll probably buy one to play games with my kids, most mainstream games today are too complicated to learn and I don't really find them fun despite how technically amazing they are.
Well NeoGeo released a new handheld portable a few years back running a bunch of classic NeoGeo games, and it failed miserably on the market.
It seems to be missing some critical features of the original. - Can't start a game and have the game loading screen distorted until the 7-8th attempt. - Can't blow in the cartridge until it whistles before playing - Can't stick 2 games in on top of each other Getting the game to work was half of the fun.
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I played a bunch of old NES games on an emulator in the early '00s. Two things stood out: (1) the graphics really were pretty lame, and (2) games I was addicted to as a kid seemed a lot more tedious as an adult. Not saying the classics don't stand the test of time, but some of those old games are better as a memory.
For me there has been huge leap between the NES and the SNES in terms of graphics and game complexity. Most of SNES games have aged much better than their NES counterparts, Super Metroid, Zelda, Chrono Trigger are still terrific games that I could play even today, while I agree that most NES games feel too old.
Sega tried something similar with mixed results [1], the two main differences being that: 1- Sega went for a "clone" rather than emulation (even accepts Genesis cartridges) 2- Nintendo's IP in the classic gaming space is unmatched [1] http://www.gamestop.com/genesis/consoles/sega-genesis-classi...
The genesis one is pretty bad quality and while it has some good games built in there's lots of not very good one off third party games the creator built in for increased gamecount.