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Heishi
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Putting silly little criticism aside, I for one am excited to get my hands on this thing!
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niastyle
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This is awesome, and I'm all game but....no Tetris?
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Ali07
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I've always liked the original NES console's design, but never owned one. And, this is cheaper then getting the real thing...along with having most of the NES games I have any interest in.
Had seen an initial report on this about a week ago. But, in that one, they were not sure whether or not it came with an AC adapter. Or, maybe it was that the Australian release wasn't going to have one...something like that. |
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Revolutionary
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It's cute, and maybe not a bad deal... However, these games have been so regularly available through Virtual Consoles for years that I've been able to get whatever I want, and thus the appeal of this is really lost to me. That alongside the fact that I'm just tired of NES games. A lot of them are nothing more than minigames by today's standards. That was my takeaway when I got the 3DS Ambassador titles.
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Animegomaniac
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Three pages and no one has mentioned the Atari Flashback which replicated the Atari 2600 and came with two controllers and 50+ built in games. Since it had no ability to change games, when the game roster was updated, you had to buy the next system to get them. It went through three version that I know even if most of the games remained the same.
I'm not going to accuse Nintendo of doing the same... because they haven't even released the first Mini yet... but seeing how many ways an update system could be implemented these days- imagine if they were all there but just locked!- and how many games are missing- no Castlevania 3, as others said there's no Tetris or Contra, just Mega Man 2-, it's hard not to think that Nintendo wants to make this a yearly thing. Also, why Pac-Man? Even the 2600 showed how much better Ms Pac-Man was. And Galaga, again? There's too many curious choices so I'm just going to wait and see what happens. For example, they could have gone the "Hey look, some imported Famicom games!" path... |
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Silicon Skies
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I actually did mention it on the first page here
It's actually currently on the sixth version which has 100 games. |
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BadNewsBlues
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Because Pac-Man was the first game in the Pac-Man series and also unlike the infamous 2600 version wasn't crappy?
.....the famicom and the NES are fundamentally the same system plus why would they import games that would have to be translated. |
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Cecilthedarkknight_234
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Actually it's a fairly decent deal compared to buying each game individually off of the e-shop. You would have to spend at least $150.00 usd "before tax" to buy them all. I honestly don't see how it's a rip-off and keep in mind you may not be the target consumer. |
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Silicon Skies
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That's only because the virtual console is easily the biggest rip-off in the entire gaming industry at the moment. $8 for the emulation of a ~30 year old game that is like 1MB worth of data? Yeah, anything will look better than that, even other ripoffs. Like I said:
But hey, it works for them. So keep at it I guess? |
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SolHerald
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I would prefer if they just put the games on steam like sega does. (Of course that's not gonna happen.)
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TJ_Kat
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Even that would be overkill. I doubt every NES game ever made would even put a dent in that. A quick Google search finds NES ROM packs with over 10,000 games taking up less than 256MB of space. |
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Zin5ki
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Come to think of it, the cheapest Raspberry Pi model is in roughly that price category. Those with sufficient wherewithal could mimic this new device through a handful of everyday peripherals and an emulator image. |
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Yamaji
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At two dollars a game it's hard to resist. Definitely on my must have list.
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Emerje
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I've heard this number a lot, but it's really more like $1 a game if you factor in probably $30 in hardware (since we know the controller itself if valued at $10). I don't have any problem giving Nintendo $60 for this since they aren't just emulating the games and hardware, but also the experience of playing these games with an authentic controller. Also there's Nintendo's quality to consider. One of the biggest complaints about the cheap plug and play consoles is that the audio is garbage, and even PC software emulation can often struggle with perfectly replicating the sound chip. I feel like Nintendo will offer the best versions of these games since their original release. Emerje |
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nhat
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I mainly want it for the look of the console except on a smaller scale lol to me its a functional replica of a NES which is a huge + for me |
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