# Classic Nintendo NES is BACK! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 29, 2016, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986 "2016-10-29T00:29:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/21 "2016-10-29T22:39:05Z")
> [@bucketybuck](#): > > I’d be more tempted if this was SNES games, even though like many I started on the NES. > > To be honest though, I have a suspicion the novelty of playing these again would soon wear off. They say you should never go back, would I really sit and replay these or would I just fuck about with them for an hour before going back to other, much better systems? I bought a retro Atari 2600 preloaded with a bunch of games. Brought it home, played with it for about an hour, and then quickly lost interest. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/22 "2016-10-29T22:40:10Z")
It’s my understanding that it means four save slots per game. Though I guess that’s not really specified, is it? Save slots are basically mandatory for anyone playing one of the Super Mario Bros. games, but _especially_ Mario 3, if you’re doing it the long way without the Warp Whistles. I remember whiling away entire afternoons and evenings playing that game at my friends’ houses. (I didn’t have an NES growing up; I had a Sega Master System and later a Genesis). ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/23 "2016-10-29T22:54:51Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > The famicom version also has Atlantis no Nazo, which is poorer than anything the NES version has by an astronomical measure. It’s like Nintendo didn’t realize its popularity is strictly ironical and no sane person would actually pay money for it. > > What’s more, the Famicom controllers are hardwired, so they can’t be used in conjunction with the Wii and Wii U consoles like the NES mini’s can, which is actually a major selling point for the latter for a lot of enthusiasts. Oh, I certainly would buy the NES version over the Famicom version…there’s two aspects I like more - the choice of FF games and the aesthetics of the system design…the other games that differ, the NES version’s list is better; all the physical aspects of the controllers are better; the fact that the games with dialogue are all in a language I have an actual mastery of is kind of required… Were the 20/30/40/whatever-in-one Famicom carts, with adapters as common elsewhere as they were where I grew up? ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/24 "2016-10-29T23:00:45Z")
id get this if someone gave it to me … I bought a soft hacked 1st gen x box with like almost everything bade before ps1 on it …Bought it at a professional yard sale ( I call it professional yard sale because its all this person does go to other yard sales/buys from people then fixes stuff up / resells it though his) guy didn’t know what it was because of the weird boot menu it has and it came with 4 hand lettered discs and he didn’t know anything about it except it wasn’t the xbox 360 he thought he was getting and and he acted like he was ripped off on the deal Well I turned it on and read through a file list that had snes9x (which I last used years ago)and clicked on it popped in the disc and found one of the best snes emulators id ever seen …I do have to tweak it a bit to play snes games on it cause they run too fast and remap the controller Well I live near guy who sells used games and fixes the systems … turns out its one his his … he “mods” them then sells the whole system for 50 bucks using a glitch in a certain xbox game and I have about 30 1st to 3rd gen systems and portables on it and most of the games Only thing I wish I could get on it is MAME and you still can play original xbox games on it … … ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/25 "2016-10-29T23:06:13Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Oh, I certainly would buy the NES version over the Famicom version…there’s two aspects I like more - the choice of FF games and the aesthetics of the system design…the other games that differ, the NES version’s list is better; all the physical aspects of the controllers are better; the fact that the games with dialogue are all in a language I have an actual mastery of is kind of required… > > Were the 20/30/40/whatever-in-one Famicom carts, with adapters as common elsewhere as they were where I grew up? I know the jap game companies loved making those espically Capcom… but I was always told the majority of those were just hacked games and illegal here in the us ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2016, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/26 "2016-10-30T20:05:14Z")
**nightshadea** , I’m sure you didn’t realize this, but “Jap” is usually considered an offensive slur. You probably want to take the time to spell out “Japanese” in full. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/27 "2016-11-11T16:31:00Z")
Got mine this morning. I’ll say this right off the bat: The wires are too damn short. I hope there’s a wireless controller I can buy for this thing. Jeez!! ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/28 "2016-11-11T16:34:06Z")
Dang, I miss me some old KOIE titles (yeah, some were SNES) ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/29 "2016-11-11T17:22:47Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > I bought a retro Atari 2600 preloaded with a bunch of games. Brought it home, played with it for about an hour, and then quickly lost interest. Back in the day I had a Playstation disc of classic Activision games and, yeah, I lost interest in replaying River Raid in about the time it took to microwave a burrito. My six year old son has one of those “Six-in-One” games loaded into a joystick controller (Pac-Man, Pole Position, Galaga, etc) and likes it. He is on the autism spectrum and the broad muscle movements with the joystick works better for his range of motor skills than working the thumbs on a modern controller. Plus the games are usually colorful, simple and repetitive which is right in his wheelhouse. I’ve been playing games since pre-Atari 2600 but skipped right over the NES era. By that time, I was gaming on my Commodore 64 and wouldn’t buy a new console until the Sega Genesis. So I have no special affection for Mario, Link, et al even as I acknowledge their importance in the grand history of video games. I think I notice the disconnect most with Japanese games, especially RPGs – I grew up on western style RPGs like Bard’s Tale, Might & Magic and the SSI Gold Box games instead of Final Fantasy and Legend of Zelda and even today can’t muster much enthusiasm for that genre of video game RPG. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/30 "2016-11-11T17:50:45Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > Got mine this morning. I’ll say this right off the bat: The wires are too damn short. I hope there’s a wireless controller I can buy for this thing. Jeez!! I’m sure there will be. In the mean time there are extensions for the controllers and you can just grab a longer HDMI cord and keep the console closer to you. I managed to get mine ordered from Gamestop after spending about 2 and a half hours on their site last night. I don’t know when it’ll ship but if I can find it locally, I’ll cancel that one. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/31 "2016-11-11T18:49:30Z")
I’m disappointed that there is no Tetris. I’ve played different versions on different consoles but the old NES version is the one I always liked best. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/32 "2016-11-12T01:23:56Z")
Something annoying about the original Super Mario Bros. was that a player’s turn wouldn’t end until he died. So two-player games could be really frustrating, especially if Mario was an expert player and Luigi wasn’t. Does the NES Classic Edition emulation retain this trait? ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/33 "2016-11-12T03:37:18Z")
I’m sure it does. The games are essentially unchanged. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/34 "2016-11-12T14:40:15Z")
Somehow it just seems wrong to have a computer system, _any_ computer system, that can’t run Tetris. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/35 "2016-11-12T15:18:51Z")
If you did not get it now, you will have to wait a little (8) bit: 🙂 > **[Best Cyber Monday Gaming Deals 2019: Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo |...](https://www.digitaltrends.com/dtdeals/best-cyber-monday-gaming-console-deals-xbox-playstation-nintendo-2019/)** > > Cyber Monday gaming deals have arrived and boy oh boy they don't disappoint, with both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on sale for next to nothing. So if you haven't had the chance to pick up either console yet, Cyber Monday 2019 is the time to pull... > [@](#): > > If you were wanting to grab that cool $60 NES Classic Edition console from Nintendo this weekend, don’t even bother looking for it. It’s sold out, and in true Nintendo fashion, many retailers have no idea when the next shipment will arrive. The best guess? > > Black Friday, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/36 "2016-11-14T05:41:10Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > This looks cool and I’m squarely in their target market. However, why on earth is it so limited? Only 30 games from a [library twenty times greater](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_games). Yeah, this alone is going to cripple sales. I know they have to pretend the ROM scene doesn’t exist, but they’re shooting their feet off even more than they have to, here. They could at least have made it possible to buy more games for this system through an Internet portal they control. Granted, they couldn’t sell any licensed games without re-negotiating the licenses, but not even having the _option_ of playing Tetris is just perverse. Re-selling old games is pure profit for them, but they’ve apparently foreclosed on that option entirely. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/37 "2016-11-14T17:37:13Z")
It’s not going to cripple sales; they’re going to sell as many of these as they can make, at least over the holiday season. It’s just a nostalgia/novelty thing, not a new console ecosystem they’re trying to start up. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/38 "2016-11-14T18:07:29Z")
There was a long line at Best Buy before they opened on Friday. I went by there to get a coaxial cable and waited in the queue 10 minutes before I figured out what everyone was in line for and I didn’t need to wait in it. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/39 "2016-11-14T18:40:20Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Yeah, this alone is going to cripple sales. I know they have to pretend the ROM scene doesn’t exist, but they’re shooting their feet off even more than they have to, here. > > They could at least have made it possible to buy more games for this system through an Internet portal they control. Granted, they couldn’t sell any licensed games without re-negotiating the licenses, but not even having the _option_ of playing Tetris is just perverse. Re-selling old games is pure profit for them, but they’ve apparently foreclosed on that option entirely. they wont do that because it will make the wii/wiiu/next system virtual console obsolete in which you can all buy some of the older games … although I think for the wii u they took off all the non Nintendo systems which if you have wii 1.0 you can buy still and the best version of tetris was atari’s arcade version segas Japanese arcade game was a barley functional bombtris … And besides if they follow the Atari flashback route the’ll make a new version once or twice a year with 5-10 games added on each time ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986/40 "2016-11-14T19:13:58Z")
30 games? No ability to expand? No cartridge support? What is the BFD? If any one of those points was different, maybe I’d consider. Nobody is buying the new WiiU just for the virtual console. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classic-nintendo-nes-is-back/769986.md?page=3)