tattoo chef wrote:Dude. Thank you for posting this.
I recently was thinking of picking up an old NES as I'm old school and love the old games from my childhood. Turns out if you want a decent working system you are looking to pay $200!!
This is perfect and has games I want such as kid Icarus and Zelda II. $60 bucks is a no brainer!
I have to educate my 6 and 9 year old boys on these old school games. Man, I played Kid Icarus so many times it is not even funny. I think I beat it at least 10 times. Once I found out there were different endings, I kept trying to see what would be next.
Given how stingy some companies are with their early review access these days, we were pretty surprised to see the miniature NES Classic Edition show up on our doorstep this morning ahead of its November 11 launch (after being announced back in July). We were even more surprised that Nintendo didn't put the usual embargo on our coverage of the new hardware, meaning we could write about it immediately.
We'll put together a more comprehensive review of the miniature NES re-release sometime next week. For now, though, here are our early impressions after a few hours with Nintendo's latest piece of game-playing hardware.
Tiny NES has tiny cord, great graphics
The difference, to put it very mildly, is very noticeable. Just as we suspected.
If you're sitting in a chair, and the NES Classic is sitting on the floor, the cord is already taut if you bring the controller up to your waist. If the system is on a living room coffee table, you'd better be ready for it to be perched on the edge closest to you (and be ready to run a very long HDMI cord to the TV).
The only situation where we could see a controller cord this short being workable is sitting on an office desk with a relatively small HDMI display. I doubt that's the use case Nintendo envisioned most for this system, though.
andrema wrote:Tiny NES has tiny cord, great graphics
The difference, to put it very mildly, is very noticeable. Just as we suspected.
If you're sitting in a chair, and the NES Classic is sitting on the floor, the cord is already taut if you bring the controller up to your waist. If the system is on a living room coffee table, you'd better be ready for it to be perched on the edge closest to you (and be ready to run a very long HDMI cord to the TV).
The only situation where we could see a controller cord this short being workable is sitting on an office desk with a relatively small HDMI display. I doubt that's the use case Nintendo envisioned most for this system, though.
There will be extension cables offered soon enough. In the meantime I'll sit on the carpet playing in front of the TV, like I'm 6 years old again, with the only difference being profanity laced language.
