Actually, for what some of those games are going for now-a-days, it's a pretty good deal if you're getting one at its normal price and not from a scalper.
My grandmother had a NES which I'd play Ice Climber on. That was about 15 years ago though, and the NES has seemed to have gone missing. Also, my grandmother is dead.
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Who else would watch an Ashen's let's play channel? I mean... yeah... I know how immediately concerning that sounds but I think it'd work pretty alright. I'd watch it.
Well he did sort of start of with gaming, didn't he? Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of was one of his earliest series at least. He also did a few Minecraft videos with Guru Larry, which I remember as being quite fun.
As a 37 year old who grew up in the UK, the NES was a HUGE part of my childhood. My friends had them too and it brings back a lot of memories indeed, I might have been part of a niche but at the time it certainly didn’t feel like it.
I distinctly remember Star Wars for NES being £10 more expensive than the actual console. Electronics Boutique were selling the console for £39.99 and Star Wars was £49.99... insane!
Ahh, nostalgia. Despite living in the UK, I actually did grow up with an original NES (my nan had one for whatever reason) and I can confirm it had both mario 3 and ninja turtles. I stunk at both. But, first console, and I still love the thing 13 years and a handful of replaced parts later despite it not getting too much use anymore.
The reason it's in short supply in the UK, is that Nintendo have made approximately 4 of these for worldwide distribution. This is what Nintendo does. It is intentional.
A major wholesale operation WOULD NOT be profitable if it were using the hobbyist Pis instead of dedicated ARM boards... Where do people get ideas like what OP is spouting?
So thankful that i got to experience these old relics. I was born in 95 and luckily had friends with pass-down consoles and handhelds. This also prompted the collecting of later handhelds and consoles. The memories are as clear as day. Great content as always ashens.
My dad just died. I'm dead serious. Just wanted to tell someone say it to someone. Love your father's coz they could die of an aneurysm any second. I've just had it happen a few hours ago
His notes about why the NES didn't sell well in the UK really opened my eyes as to why my Australian parents got an Amiga instead of any console, until I showed up of course
So glad to hear you speaking about how the NES wasn't a big thing over here. That's something that I've spoken on in the past, coz so many people were like "How can you not love the NES?" Meh. I was still playing my Electron when the NES came out, and when I saw one, it was demoing Donkey Kong, and that had been the bundled game for the Colecovision, some years earlier. I just looked at it and thought "Seriously?"
Nate1829 The term "Scalper" is used by people into collecting things, it means somebody who buys dozens of a certain high demand product from stores, not because they want them, but so they can sell them for double their price on eBay. They're basically the people who are responsible for you not being able to get that particular thing you wanted for Christmas.
Judging by the instructions it appears so, but then the joypad's lead is way too short. I mean, seriously, even if you stayed on the floor, or brought a chair over, sitting that close to your modern 40 inch TV just will not be comfortable to look at.
TruckSimz it says in the manual the wall wart is sold separately. very very few TV's have powered USB ports, 99% of them are for diagnostic use or USB storage (which takes next to no power)
Out of 8 televisions I have bought or stubmed upon from my family in last 3 years 8 of them have more then 2 powered usb ports. These are all Philips, Panasonics, Vivax, Samsung and other low to mid range televisions. Chromecast works on all of them even some other devices like RPi and etc. "very very few" This is also coming from a shittiest hole in the EU, which is Croatia.
The reason why younger people in the UK think everyone had a NES in the 80s is because The English speaking internet is overrun by Americans, and the NES in the USA was MASSIVELY popular. In the UK it was all about home computers. The Commodore Amiga and DOS were the most popular gaming platforms at one point. As for this little box - even for £50 it's a rip-off. My sister actually had a NES in the late 80s so it IS nice for her casual nostalgia gubbons but anyone with any shred of sense will use their laptop, or buy a cheap netbook, shove every emulator in existence on there and buy some USB joy pads. I have a NES, SNES and N64 controller that I connect to my laptop. Got an offbrand USB PS3 controller I can use for PS1 games too.
EXACTLY I've been saying this for years and trying in vain to educate British kids and Americans. It's so irritating how British kids have been brainwashed by this revisionist bullshit.
I mean, the population of the US is roughly five times larger than the UK and that's not even factoring in Canada which also got the NES at the same time as the US. I don't think 'overrun' is the right word to use here. More like 'proportionately represented' :P
"English Speaking Internet" doesn't mean "America and the UK". English is one of the universal languages along with Spanish and Mandarin. Despite this, the English speaking internet is MASSIVELY biased toward the USA. Because of this you have many countries going "OMG the NES!" purely because of the revisionist hype from 'Murica.
The NES mini uses roms on a version of Linux, so it's only a matter of time before it's hacked to allow "backup" games on a USB. The Famicom Mini already was hacked a month ago, but the hack doesn't actually allow you to import games yet.
It has the slight problem that it doesn't actually have a USB port, unless the power socket is fully loaded, instead of merely offering power and ground. So there's literally no means to add extra storage.
Ah, good point. Those are technically USB ports. but wait. Laying aside the question of how one would play two player games for a moment, how does that work on the Famicom Mini with it's hardwired controllers?
I grew up with the C64 and then the Amiga. I remember my friends raving about the NES and other consoles and the quality of games on the Commodores was far better. I count myself lucky.
Because the digital were done in limited run, and in order to keep from depleting the supply, they limit how many digital copies can be bought. The ones on this console are special nintendo non pirated ones. They ensure they work with the console so they can provide support.
Ashens, the purveyor of sad onions and singing caterpillars, has once again spoken of the very things that cross my mind as a British gamer from the 80's onwards.
Scott Cowan me :-) proud owner of a real NES with new 72 pin connector fitted, bought from DVD Megastore in Shrewsbury in November 2016 so AFTER the Mini came out, basically a fuck you to it lol. I only have Super Mario Bros 1 at the moment, but I do have it hooked up via composite to my ex-BBC 14" CRT JVC broadcast monitor using a RCA to BNC adapter, and the sound is split to "stereo" (dual mono) to my sound system :-)
Well said on the whole thing about how tiny the market for the NES was in the UK. The whole rewriting of history really grinds my gears. As you say you only need to look at the sales charts to see insignificant it was. Nobody gave a damn about Nintendo until the press started writing about the new and mythical Super Famicom being released in Japan and import units turning up and being reviewed. There was of course the Turtles pack for Christmas 1990, but frankly any serious gamer would have shelled out (see what I did there) a few more quid for the newly arrived Megadrive.
And to think sometime around 2004 or 2005 I saw a stack of original NES machines (all reputedly working) at this flea market mini mall and probably could have negotiated a nice price for the lot and all I thought at the time was "who'd want these?"
CRT mode is actually important for some of the games because of a graphical design technique known as "subpixel shading" that only works in a slightly blurred scanning display. Megaman 2 uses that technique quite a lot. Without the CRT mode, stuff that's supposed to be relatively detailed looks like an indistinguishable mess of pixels without the blur and scanlines.
you can pick up a psp go for pretty cheap and use it as an emulator. its pretty easy to mod. just put a file on the thing and run it. should be modded after that. (i'm recommending the psp go because it has internal storage and its cheap since no one wants it. i got one for 30 bucks)
These things would have been pretty awesome if they just were a cheap way to access the nintendo store without buying a full blown Wii/WiiU. buy it from the shop, comes with enough nintendo points on it to buy 30 nintendo games or whatever other games you might want from the store. then you could buy more to put on it with your own cash too, give it say an 8gb or 16gb of internal memory and it'd be on my christmas list. as it is I'm just gonna get a raspberry pi and find someone to 3d print me a scaled down nes to make my own at some point.
All of Nintendo's products in the USA have the ac adapter included. Not sure why they don't include it elsewhere, but apparently people still buy their products without one?
Thank you for setting people straight. It's only Americans that love the anus off of Nintendo, especially the NES, also very important to note that the "console crash" of the 80's was a solely American thing, did not affect Europe or Japan. In fact in the UK the industry thrived with the the very systems you mentioned. I also feel we were more spoilt for choice. C64, Micro, Spectrum, then the Amiga, Megadrive, Snes, Master System. All I know about the states was they had the NES LOL
Both my cousin and a friend of mine has an NES, I remember borrowing my cousin's one for at least one weekend. Didn't realise they weren't all that big here. Most people I knew had Spectrums, Amstrads etc. I tried pirating Spectrum games with a double recorder myself. Never worked. We also had a SNES at one point too, but since I had no friends I have no idea how many others had one.
Oddly enough, it looks like the CRT filter is different on this version from the US version. This one has that weird shimmy that just looks bad, but the US version actually looks pretty true to life. Is this some sort of NTSC/PAL thing? Haha
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Luke i actually felt quite a bit nostalgia when i sat in front of the tv with a mini nes playing zelda 2 with a real nes controller. i didnt have that with my raspberri pi. it doesnt beat an oldschool nes but its closer than a raspberri pi
I mean, you do understand that this is an emulator developed by Nintendo to play its old games? I don't know where you're pulling this nostalgia crap from (I guess the controller?) but you've paid a ton of money for the exact same shit you A) probably already own and B) Is freely available even if you don't. Except on a PC, you don't have a shitty two button controller with a weird proprietary port to use but rather a keyboard or a whole host of awesome USB or wireless controllers, aaaand you also have save states so those impossible games aren't quite so difficult anymore, and also you have the entire library of games from the platform available to you rather than just a static library of 30, and I honestly forgot where I was going with this but *YEAH MAN COOL!* Nostalgia sure makes people do stupid shit with their money.
I know people like their nostalgia but it's stupid that they didn't update the controller to have all the features the Classic controller could utilize. It's the stupid Gamecube Controller in Smash 4 all over again.
I mean if you wanna change games you can either: 1) use the classic controller and press a button on the controller or 2) go to your system and press a button. That makes me never want to use the NES controller included when there's a better alternative.
It's a better alternative than a controller that doesn't have enough buttons. I care more about having a controller that's 100% fully functional than a controller that is more authentic.
Sure you CAN but my point is that it's stupid that they didn't add this when a controller from two console generations ago can do it fine. It just feels needlessly regressive for the sake of nostalgia and that's just dumb. Though I'll give you it's much less stupid than the Smash 4 Gamecube controller
It was nostalgic for me as an '86 baby. I still remember my brother and I, putting together our Christmas and Birthday monies just to buy SMB3, and it was in fact the price you are saying to buy this for! Definitely more expensive than cassette. I do miss the gaming booths..
yes, maybe.... but it´s nothing more than overhyped pseudo retro. so i sayd, buy a raspberry 3, use retropie. costs a little bit more but have way more options.
thesatanic6 Pseudo because it's just an Emulation. that has nothing to do if same company or not. and again: buy a raspberry 3, use retropie and you can play all retro machines with thousands of games, not just one machine with 30 games and no chance for upgrading (sd-card vor so).
I appreciate the rant at the end. I was in the Vans store recently cause they did NES themed shoes and I was trying some on and I said 'I swear this console wasn't a thing in the UK' and she's like 'yeah it definitely was I remember I used to play the SNES all the time'... yeah wrong bloody system love.
Though if you still have a wired Wii Pro Controller you can press the home button on there to bring you back to the home menu instead of reaching to the console to hit tje reset button.
15 years ago, I purchased a knock-off version of one of these things at the mall for $30, but it had over 100 games on board, and the hardware was entirely inside of the controller. But today (even though I also have a collection of original NES cartridges that numbers in the hundreds) FCE on the original Xbox remains the best way to play. Nintendo: stop selling us the same products again and again- especially when they are inferior by our present technological standards. This is just a holiday gimmick that takes advantage of the less tech-savvy.
It did go back in stock in 2017 and remained as shelf warmers (believe it or not) until i think 2019 when nintendo said they'll stop producing classics altogether. So i was wise enough to get it during the full restock. And then people as you said, realized they didn't want it and was just a nostalgia thing. Hince the whole shelf warmer thing. And now in the aftermarket. They're at least 75 usd with the system and controller alone.
You say that and yet Nintendo has met more than one underwhelming generation. Tell me, if YOU ran a company would you manufacture 100 units when you could only guarantee 50 sales? no you'd at most manufacture 75 because each unit bloody costs you money.
Even back when the NES was first out (US), I called them control pads, though usually just controllers. I don't have any of my old NES game instructions nearby, but I'm pretty sure the term used in them, at least in the US, was control pad. The term "Joy-pad" is probably a UK or rest of the world thing. In the US at least where I grew up, the only control device that had "Joy" in the name, were Joysticks for PC or games in arcades.
Erik Gladding ur making excuses to take up for nintendo for some reason yet youve probably already got all of the games on eshop on wii, dsi, 3ds, wii, and wii u already... let that sink in.
I was curious about that "new" mega drive but I couldnt find much info, I know it doesnt have scart which is depressing cause even the original supported that, and it plays original carts, but what is the sd card slot used for if it doesnt just let you load roms?
GamerBear why did u even buy it to even b able to say that!? u HAVE BOTH SEGA GAMES AND NES GAMES ON UR WII, WIIU, DS, AND DSI! WTF. And u were so proud of ur response too. smh.
GamerBear that has absolutely nothing to do with what i just said lol. My whole point was why even be interested or even buy again the same thing u just bought 5 times over. But hey, im the stupid one :P
***** Yeah, back in the late 19th century. Then the CEO at that time went to the largest seller of playing cards in the world, and saw that they only had a small office. So he started funding a dozen different things, until something stuck, and that's the story of Nintendo up until video games.
1956 Hiroshi Yamauchi decided to take Nintendo out of the playing card business not the 19th Century. Nintendo was founded in the late19th Century in 1889.
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but in Sweden the NES was the shit. Everyone had a NES at home, except for the dtrange kids with a sega. Everyone lend each other games to a point where "bye mum, im going out to lend dome games" was a common phrase heard in our house. We had computers and the other systems as well, so I wonder why the NES did so poorly on the UK compared to here... Marketing maybe?
I am from the UK and was alive at the time. Home computers dominated until the early 90's. Then in the early 1990's Sega became big in the UK. The Master System was the highest selling console in Europe in 1993, followed by the Megadrive and then SNES and Gameboy. The NES barely sold
Yeah, it was the same in the Netherlands, among my schoolmates at least. I knew quite a few kids with NES's, and have in fact never met anyone with a Master System. To the point that "Nintendo" was pretty much synonymous with "videogame console". I was pretty surprised when I later learned that the Master System outsold the NES in Europe. I'd be interested to see a breakdown of sales across European countries. I'm guessing the NES didn't do as bad in the Netherlands and Sweden, but big countries like the UK obviously made up for that.
No it didn't, it was a lot closer but the Megadrive still outsold the SNES in the UK. It was maybe 2-1 but I don't have the exact figures. Many kids like me had both. I got them used. But yeh the SNES was popular in the UK, so was the Gameboy.
I got mine (playing it now) got it Christmas 2018 btw. As an Xmas gift from my grandparents 2 hours after I got a PlayStation classic off my mum&dad lol
As it happens I have a CRT telly (and an Atari 2600) from my mother. After making a not so great serial terminal that connects via composite video, I can also agree a CRT is nowhere near as messy as the filter.
There are listings on eBay UK for one of these with prices in the hundreds. I kid you not. Absolutely ridiculous, people willing to pay those prices need a good slap. Nintendo messed up the supply and demand ratio. Wonder if they'll get it right with the SNES Mini.
I appreciate your candor on the British gaming history. Although I was born long after the home computer craze (My first console was a Mega Drive) I have fond memories of playing on my cousin Paul's Commodore 64.
I love the history lesson he gives at 15:00, it just shows overall how incompetent Nintendo was at the time and still are. I mean one of the reason it sold so well in the U.S was because Atari fell and Nintendo jumped in to replace them after the North American game market crash. I think Nintendo at the time may have just assumed that outside of the Japanese Market the rest of the world didn't have gaming or something.
You know, many people don't understand that, and thinks it doesn't make sense. Many Europeans I've met (I am from Europe myself. Denmark actually) think that because it's PAL it should run better, because PAL tends to be better when it comes to videos, movies, TVs etc. But they fail to understand that it may be due to something inside the hardware, something odd. I don't know what it is myself thogh, can someone explain it to me? I've also met many people who believed they used PAL in the US. What morons. And a couple of weeks ago a guy who was born in Australia and insited that Australian English spelling is the same as American English, that is using Z in realise/realize and such. What an even bigger moron.
It doesn't run 'worse'. It just runs at 50 Hz to be compatible with most UK TVs as 50 Hz (PAL) was standard here, so it ran 20% slower. The people over in North America had it at 60 Hz (NTSC) which is the refresh rate it and the games were designed for.
Gaming on computers was a thing in the USA and UK, so the first Japanese consoles didn't generally perform that well, it wasn't until some years later that they finally took over the market in western countries. Over in Japan itself they were never huge into gaming on computers, instead the Japanese used arcade machines before home consoles were developed, the home console was developed as basically a home arcade machine in theory, to connect to your TV etc. So consoles have a long history in Japan, I think it wasn't until around N64 and the first Playstation that the western PC gaming market truly was beheaded, the N64 and PS1 truly sold all over the place in the western market. I was a child here in Australia when the PS1 and N64 came out, and truly they dominated the entire gaming market pretty much. Prior to these however, it was common to play some games on the computer, and those computer games were pretty bad to be honest.
Everyone mentioning that you can have emulators with more capabilities seems to forget about two things: 1) Emulation with downloadable roms is a piracy 2) Not even one emulator, not to mention chinese NES knockoffs, has the same colors and general feel as the original Nintendo. NES mini was created with a maximum care to give the user the same experience as the original, which no emulator can give you (different colors, graphics, sound).
My Raspberry Pi has every NES game on it, all with box art and descriptions, courtesy of the emulator. So to me, this product is useless. Great Video as always!!
Basically a very tiny, and very flexible computer. Built mainly for people with some tech knowledge to use in projects. You can, however, buy them prebuilt to be mini emulator machines for about £50.
+aMondayMorning A raspberry pi is full ARM linux computer, and is really small in size. So you can basically load any emulator on it and hook it up to a monitor/TV. You can get one for about $70 AUD, while the NES mini is $200 AUD
This product is only really good as a show piece. Basically, it's an official Nintendo product that will sit nicely on the TV cabinet to look at and remind yourself of the good days. As for actually using it, nah.
I read somewhere that the reason the controller cable is so short is because it's literally just a Wii Classic Controller in an NES Controller case, and the Wii Classic Controller just used to plug into the Wiimote, hence why the cable is so short.
Neat device, but at the end of the day, it's just an emulator in a box that you can't add more games to...... fore a shit ton of money. I'd rather just buy a cheap preowned netbook, and a usb NES controller. Download Retroarch, and the entire NES rom set, and run it to a tv via HDMI. You'd have something 10x better for a lot cheaper. Not to mention it could play a LOT more than just NES.
135 quids for 30 NES games... Wow, what a scam.
Sannidor meh he got it from a shop called CeX and it's £125
Madi_Minecraft // Animations I swear it's 50 in argos
It's supposed to be £30
CeX probably only paid like £20 for it too.
Actually, for what some of those games are going for now-a-days, it's a pretty good deal if you're getting one at its normal price and not from a scalper.
I'd laugh if it was just a raspberry pi inside.
Wait, that has more functionality, I forgot.
If I ever got one of these I'd gut the insides and put a nes pi inside of it ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Or just 3d print a case.
Y'know, if you have one of those.
LazerLord10 A lot of schools have them, I've just printed a case off for a pi at school.
I need to print some cool things like that with my printer. I need to use it more, lol
It's not far off actually - just a bog standard AllWinner quad-core ARM chip and a Linux based OS.
You know that Stuart is about to make a serious point when his thumb and index finger touch.
Wait ... does this mean he might actually be Donald Trump?!
Can't wait for the NES Mini XL.
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Im waiting my balls off for a Gamecube mini.
My grandmother had a NES which I'd play Ice Climber on. That was about 15 years ago though, and the NES has seemed to have gone missing. Also, my grandmother is dead.
I'm so sorry for your loss, it must have been hard losing that NES.
Yea, it sucks. I just wish I could dig it up and bring it back to life.
Bitch must have taken it to hell with her.
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Fuck me, I'll never get it back then.
Maybe she was one and the same?
Just say "Nintendo NES System" so everyone's angry.
@MrMikehunt87 Nintendo NES System
Nintendo Nintendo Entertainment System System.
The Entertaining Nintendo NES System
Charlie Dobbie no call it a Xboxsonynes game boy
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Who else would watch an Ashen's let's play channel? I mean... yeah... I know how immediately concerning that sounds but I think it'd work pretty alright. I'd watch it.
FrameRater Me too man. I'd sub to that shit. Even though I hate 98% of LetsPlayers. Especially PewDiePie. 😂🙄👌🏻
Well he did sort of start of with gaming, didn't he? Terrible Old Games You've Probably Never Heard Of was one of his earliest series at least. He also did a few Minecraft videos with Guru Larry, which I remember as being quite fun.
cheezdoodle96 I think I've watched through all of those long ago. :(
Only if he plays ancient games.
He did a charity stream not too long ago and it was shockingly informative. It was really interesting
As a 37 year old who grew up in the UK, the NES was a HUGE part of my childhood. My friends had them too and it brings back a lot of memories indeed, I might have been part of a niche but at the time it certainly didn’t feel like it.
Me and most of my friends had the commodore 64 and then the Amiga
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@@encycl07pedia-Me and most of my friends, as I originally said
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I had a NES. This is the first I’ve heard about it not being popular in the UK. Now I feel special!
I distinctly remember Star Wars for NES being £10 more expensive than the actual console. Electronics Boutique were selling the console for £39.99 and Star Wars was £49.99... insane!
Ahh, nostalgia. Despite living in the UK, I actually did grow up with an original NES (my nan had one for whatever reason) and I can confirm it had both mario 3 and ninja turtles. I stunk at both. But, first console, and I still love the thing 13 years and a handful of replaced parts later despite it not getting too much use anymore.
The reason it's in short supply in the UK, is that Nintendo have made approximately 4 of these for worldwide distribution. This is what Nintendo does. It is intentional.
probably a raspberry pi hot glued in there
It's some Nvidia based stuff, apparently.
Snotnarok nope,it is Chinese allwinner based...4 cores 256 mo ram
A major wholesale operation WOULD NOT be profitable if it were using the hobbyist Pis instead of dedicated ARM boards... Where do people get ideas like what OP is spouting?
+Snotnarok14 No thats the switch
A dangerously shallow knowledge of technology paired with a need to impress.
*holds a Nintendo controller*
"It's exactly the same as the old Nintendo one!"
Well yeah, plenty of 3rd party controllers out there.
So thankful that i got to experience these old relics.
I was born in 95 and luckily had friends with pass-down consoles and handhelds.
This also prompted the collecting of later handhelds and consoles.
The memories are as clear as day.
Great content as always ashens.
My dad just died. I'm dead serious. Just wanted to tell someone say it to someone. Love your father's coz they could die of an aneurysm any second. I've just had it happen a few hours ago
His notes about why the NES didn't sell well in the UK really opened my eyes as to why my Australian parents got an Amiga instead of any console, until I showed up of course
So glad to hear you speaking about how the NES wasn't a big thing over here. That's something that I've spoken on in the past, coz so many people were like "How can you not love the NES?"
Meh.
I was still playing my Electron when the NES came out, and when I saw one, it was demoing Donkey Kong, and that had been the bundled game for the Colecovision, some years earlier.
I just looked at it and thought "Seriously?"
What honks my chuff needs to be a weekly segment.
A scalper's wet dream, this
Nintendo is basically a scalper's favorite company
After getting a Black Friday New 3DS legitimately and seeing all the negative reviews about scalpers, I could not agree more.
custardo Scalpers?
Nate1829 they buy up all the consoles and then sell them secondhand for way too much
Nate1829 The term "Scalper" is used by people into collecting things, it means somebody who buys dozens of a certain high demand product from stores, not because they want them, but so they can sell them for double their price on eBay. They're basically the people who are responsible for you not being able to get that particular thing you wanted for Christmas.
Maybe it's designed with the USB so you can run it off the TV's USB ports, like a Chromecast!
Judging by the instructions it appears so, but then the joypad's lead is way too short. I mean, seriously, even if you stayed on the floor, or brought a chair over, sitting that close to your modern 40 inch TV just will not be comfortable to look at.
TruckSimz I run it off my xbox one, which even if turned off still passes through power if anything is pugged in via usb
TruckSimz it says in the manual the wall wart is sold separately. very very few TV's have powered USB ports, 99% of them are for diagnostic use or USB storage (which takes next to no power)
I'm fucking sick of those ads.
Out of 8 televisions I have bought or stubmed upon from my family in last 3 years 8 of them have more then 2 powered usb ports. These are all Philips, Panasonics, Vivax, Samsung and other low to mid range televisions. Chromecast works on all of them even some other devices like RPi and etc.
"very very few"
This is also coming from a shittiest hole in the EU, which is Croatia.
The reason why younger people in the UK think everyone had a NES in the 80s is because The English speaking internet is overrun by Americans, and the NES in the USA was MASSIVELY popular. In the UK it was all about home computers. The Commodore Amiga and DOS were the most popular gaming platforms at one point.
As for this little box - even for £50 it's a rip-off. My sister actually had a NES in the late 80s so it IS nice for her casual nostalgia gubbons but anyone with any shred of sense will use their laptop, or buy a cheap netbook, shove every emulator in existence on there and buy some USB joy pads.
I have a NES, SNES and N64 controller that I connect to my laptop. Got an offbrand USB PS3 controller I can use for PS1 games too.
EXACTLY I've been saying this for years and trying in vain to educate British kids and Americans. It's so irritating how British kids have been brainwashed by this revisionist bullshit.
I mean, the population of the US is roughly five times larger than the UK and that's not even factoring in Canada which also got the NES at the same time as the US. I don't think 'overrun' is the right word to use here. More like 'proportionately represented' :P
The US population is 5 times bigger than the UK. The NES sold about 30-40 times what it did in the UK. That's hardly proportional.
"English Speaking Internet" doesn't mean "America and the UK". English is one of the universal languages along with Spanish and Mandarin.
Despite this, the English speaking internet is MASSIVELY biased toward the USA. Because of this you have many countries going "OMG the NES!" purely because of the revisionist hype from 'Murica.
I don't know why you're upset at Americans over this. It's not like any of us are pushing the idea that the NES was a big deal in the UK.
The NES mini uses roms on a version of Linux, so it's only a matter of time before it's hacked to allow "backup" games on a USB. The Famicom Mini already was hacked a month ago, but the hack doesn't actually allow you to import games yet.
It has the slight problem that it doesn't actually have a USB port, unless the power socket is fully loaded, instead of merely offering power and ground. So there's literally no means to add extra storage.
TheTurnipKing controller port 2
Ah, good point. Those are technically USB ports.
but wait. Laying aside the question of how one would play two player games for a moment, how does that work on the Famicom Mini with it's hardwired controllers?
TheTurnipKing pretty sure the power socket works (at least on the famicom)
Mr.deacle then Nintendo is being dumb--or they always planned to possibly allow people to add more.
doesn't the ouya have more nes games?
Every computer and every phone has more games for the NES than this.
+Zain Ghufran
Even if it was that expensive that's still probably a tenth of the price of getting a USED nes mini now.
The what?
Nah it's $100 tops unless you buy it new. It's legit cheaper than this shit.
Tsi Tsu Fuck h
I grew up with the C64 and then the Amiga.
I remember my friends raving about the NES and other consoles and the quality of games on the Commodores was far better.
I count myself lucky.
Speaking of virtual console, why the hell aren't my purchases cross buy.
Datafiend Because it's Nintendo. They do whatever they want and have fanboys that defend their every move.
Because it's Nintendo
Because the digital were done in limited run, and in order to keep from depleting the supply, they limit how many digital copies can be bought. The ones on this console are special nintendo non pirated ones. They ensure they work with the console so they can provide support.
Because while cross buy is nice, they don't have to offer it.
+TBrizzle01 sounds familiar... Ah yes.. Apple
I love Brits who calls a TV for "telly". Always warms my heart.
Ashens, the purveyor of sad onions and singing caterpillars, has once again spoken of the very things that cross my mind as a British gamer from the 80's onwards.
Who here actually owns a real Nes rather than this?
Scott Cowan me
I do..
Scott Cowan i have a mario bros 3 in average condition. It was from my old brother
Scott Cowan me :-) proud owner of a real NES with new 72 pin connector fitted, bought from DVD Megastore in Shrewsbury in November 2016 so AFTER the Mini came out, basically a fuck you to it lol. I only have Super Mario Bros 1 at the moment, but I do have it hooked up via composite to my ex-BBC 14" CRT JVC broadcast monitor using a RCA to BNC adapter, and the sound is split to "stereo" (dual mono) to my sound system :-)
***** Awesome.
In 1988 I was the only kid in my school that had a NES or even wanted one.
Well said on the whole thing about how tiny the market for the NES was in the UK. The whole rewriting of history really grinds my gears. As you say you only need to look at the sales charts to see insignificant it was. Nobody gave a damn about Nintendo until the press started writing about the new and mythical Super Famicom being released in Japan and import units turning up and being reviewed.
There was of course the Turtles pack for Christmas 1990, but frankly any serious gamer would have shelled out (see what I did there) a few more quid for the newly arrived Megadrive.
Take a stuffed animal, dip it in a mixed bucket of glue and confetti and you have a Hatchimal! Make your's today!
i cANT BRREATHE
Does Nintendo of Europe have a fear of Power Adapters or something? Why do they never have them?
Johnny Takigero Power adapters shall take over the universe
I don't believe the American ones got power adapters either.
Vastana I can confirm that the US version DOES get an AC adapter.
+Vastana Yes they did lol.
There's no excuse as to why the Europe version didn't get one.
Sorry, I was mistaken. Jeeze.
And to think sometime around 2004 or 2005 I saw a stack of original NES machines (all reputedly working) at this flea market mini mall and probably could have negotiated a nice price for the lot and all I thought at the time was "who'd want these?"
just get an emulator
MyOzx but y do
MyOzx you can have up to 2 years in jail as that is pirating games
TheShinyYanma Gaming/Sketches/Animations do you download songs off the Internet? it's the same thing. nobody's going to get arrested for this.
I've never heard people got jail up because pirating games.
Well check the law it's a felony
I'm from the UK, and I had an NES back in the day. Loved it.
He never said no-one had it, he said it was rarer the the home computers and the Master System.
Erm, where did I say that he claimed nobody had it?
Very few people had an NES or cared about it. I was alive at the time. The Master System sold 2 to 3 times more.
+ojideagu It sold worse in Australia, yet I've got one.
MarkNUK dito, as did all my friends at school ..in our little bubble is was very popular
CRT mode is actually important for some of the games because of a graphical design technique known as "subpixel shading" that only works in a slightly blurred scanning display.
Megaman 2 uses that technique quite a lot. Without the CRT mode, stuff that's supposed to be relatively detailed looks like an indistinguishable mess of pixels without the blur and scanlines.
I want a SNES classic, that's where I started gaming.
EDIT: FUCK ME IT'S REAL AND ALREADY SOLD OUT FML
Aufinator i wonder if they kept this on and even made the wii mini, it would be called the nintendo wii mini classic mini
+Oden's Channel Of Everything Me
Nintendo Switch Classic
you can pick up a psp go for pretty cheap and use it as an emulator. its pretty easy to mod. just put a file on the thing and run it. should be modded after that. (i'm recommending the psp go because it has internal storage and its cheap since no one wants it. i got one for 30 bucks)
Drake Amped and The Hulk were my favourite games on that system
Those are gonna sell out even more. But I agree, I want one.
These things would have been pretty awesome if they just were a cheap way to access the nintendo store without buying a full blown Wii/WiiU. buy it from the shop, comes with enough nintendo points on it to buy 30 nintendo games or whatever other games you might want from the store. then you could buy more to put on it with your own cash too, give it say an 8gb or 16gb of internal memory and it'd be on my christmas list. as it is I'm just gonna get a raspberry pi and find someone to 3d print me a scaled down nes to make my own at some point.
What is it with Nintendo releasing Products w/o AC Adapters ¿¿
Liar... nobody has three USB adapters. Fucking hell. Three? Seriously? Who are you trying to deceive?
***** I was joking.
All of Nintendo's products in the USA have the ac adapter included. Not sure why they don't include it elsewhere, but apparently people still buy their products without one?
I love watching ashens review Nintendo products.
Thank you for setting people straight. It's only Americans that love the anus off of Nintendo, especially the NES, also very important to note that the "console crash" of the 80's was a solely American thing, did not affect Europe or Japan. In fact in the UK the industry thrived with the the very systems you mentioned. I also feel we were more spoilt for choice. C64, Micro, Spectrum, then the Amiga, Megadrive, Snes, Master System. All I know about the states was they had the NES LOL
Exactly, I can't tell you how many times I've had to type this exact statement to Americans online FFS. American NES Fanboys are like cancer.
Both my cousin and a friend of mine has an NES, I remember borrowing my cousin's one for at least one weekend. Didn't realise they weren't all that big here. Most people I knew had Spectrums, Amstrads etc. I tried pirating Spectrum games with a double recorder myself. Never worked.
We also had a SNES at one point too, but since I had no friends I have no idea how many others had one.
Oddly enough, it looks like the CRT filter is different on this version from the US version. This one has that weird shimmy that just looks bad, but the US version actually looks pretty true to life. Is this some sort of NTSC/PAL thing? Haha
Haha. You're boring
@Sappho's Pepper Steak Buffet it's the power of the checkmark, it compels anyone who sees it to reply no matter the age of the comment
I thought this was pretty cool until I found out about the raspberry pi 3 kit. :/
Eric Southard
Do you have a link?
Joshua TheAwesome sure. Raspberry Pi 3 Based 1GB RetroPie Emulation Station with Kodi Media Center Loaded 32GB Micro SD Card, heatsinks Installed www.amazon.com/dp/B01K31X99Y/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_KGQvyb01KCD0T
I always liked the term "Joypad". It really demonstrated a time gamers were having joy lol.
125 pounds? JUST INSTALL FUCKING EMULATORS ON YOUR PC AND GO NUTS.
*For fuck's sake*.
RasPi!
pff, yeah if you want a bad experience with 0 nostalgia factor
so much nostalgia, I loved plugging my NES that was smaller than its own cartridges into my HDMI ports on my HDTV back in the early 90s
Luke i actually felt quite a bit nostalgia when i sat in front of the tv with a mini nes playing zelda 2 with a real nes controller. i didnt have that with my raspberri pi. it doesnt beat an oldschool nes but its closer than a raspberri pi
I mean, you do understand that this is an emulator developed by Nintendo to play its old games? I don't know where you're pulling this nostalgia crap from (I guess the controller?) but you've paid a ton of money for the exact same shit you A) probably already own and B) Is freely available even if you don't.
Except on a PC, you don't have a shitty two button controller with a weird proprietary port to use but rather a keyboard or a whole host of awesome USB or wireless controllers, aaaand you also have save states so those impossible games aren't quite so difficult anymore, and also you have the entire library of games from the platform available to you rather than just a static library of 30, and I honestly forgot where I was going with this but *YEAH MAN COOL!* Nostalgia sure makes people do stupid shit with their money.
I love your videos man! You're a big inspiration
I had an Amiga 500+ growing up (lays down with his memories)
give it to big clive to take it apart. i bet theres hardly anything inside.
you could look at a teardown guide though. Theres just an ARM SOC with like 256mb ram and quite small ROM on there.
I know people like their nostalgia but it's stupid that they didn't update the controller to have all the features the Classic controller could utilize. It's the stupid Gamecube Controller in Smash 4 all over again.
How would a home button in the middle ruin the feel? Wouldn't you rather your games not be tedious?
I mean if you wanna change games you can either: 1) use the classic controller and press a button on the controller or 2) go to your system and press a button. That makes me never want to use the NES controller included when there's a better alternative.
It's a better alternative than a controller that doesn't have enough buttons. I care more about having a controller that's 100% fully functional than a controller that is more authentic.
But it doesn't have a home button, something not relevant on the NES but relevant to this system.
Sure you CAN but my point is that it's stupid that they didn't add this when a controller from two console generations ago can do it fine. It just feels needlessly regressive for the sake of nostalgia and that's just dumb.
Though I'll give you it's much less stupid than the Smash 4 Gamecube controller
It was nostalgic for me as an '86 baby. I still remember my brother and I, putting together our Christmas and Birthday monies just to buy SMB3, and it was in fact the price you are saying to buy this for! Definitely more expensive than cassette.
I do miss the gaming booths..
Why hello there, Ouya 2.0!
This literaly has nothing to do with the Ouya
Boris Baskovec If you know what he meant to say
Hello!!
ashens An excellent fake.
No way man, the Ouya is way better than this hunk of junk, at least I can put more games on the Ouya ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
what a crap. a totally overpriced but low quality android unit with just one emulator. better buy a raspberry pi 3 with retropie.
what exactly is high quality?
yes, maybe.... but it´s nothing more than overhyped pseudo retro. so i sayd, buy a raspberry 3, use retropie. costs a little bit more but have way more options.
Markus Martin >more
well duh, but is well worth the extra money
+thesatanic6 To me it's low quality with the absolutely pitiful 30 fucking games for 60 pounds or 100 Australian dollars.
thesatanic6 Pseudo because it's just an Emulation. that has nothing to do if same company or not. and again: buy a raspberry 3, use retropie and you can play all retro machines with thousands of games, not just one machine with 30 games and no chance for upgrading (sd-card vor so).
I appreciate the rant at the end. I was in the Vans store recently cause they did NES themed shoes and I was trying some on and I said 'I swear this console wasn't a thing in the UK' and she's like 'yeah it definitely was I remember I used to play the SNES all the time'... yeah wrong bloody system love.
American retro videos are to blame for this revisionist bullshit
I feel like the NES Mini was meant to be a desktop toy or gadget because the wires are really short and so you could press reset easily
Though if you still have a wired Wii Pro Controller you can press the home button on there to bring you back to the home menu instead of reaching to the console to hit tje reset button.
15 years ago, I purchased a knock-off version of one of these things at the mall for $30, but it had over 100 games on board, and the hardware was entirely inside of the controller. But today (even though I also have a collection of original NES cartridges that numbers in the hundreds) FCE on the original Xbox remains the best way to play.
Nintendo: stop selling us the same products again and again- especially when they are inferior by our present technological standards. This is just a holiday gimmick that takes advantage of the less tech-savvy.
It did go back in stock in 2017 and remained as shelf warmers (believe it or not) until i think 2019 when nintendo said they'll stop producing classics altogether.
So i was wise enough to get it during the full restock. And then people as you said, realized they didn't want it and was just a nostalgia thing. Hince the whole shelf warmer thing.
And now in the aftermarket. They're at least 75 usd with the system and controller alone.
I have the original (which I have had since 1990) with an Everdrive cartridge.
Beats this thing for sure.
waka
BLW or no BLW?
No BLW, I've never opened it.
*****
Wow. your pins have got to be pretty friggen hit and miss now.
yeah they are, I need to keep the Nintendo on a flat surface, but it works for now.
when they eventually wear out ill do something about it.
I ended up ordering a D99 famiclone off aliexpress with a 400in1 cart for half the price because i couldn't get the real thing.
Is it any good?
Jasper Janssen the controller is terrible compared to that though
I pre-ordered mine then picked it up that day, no problems. People wait until release day then act surprised when there's none left.
Bryan Radley that is pretty surprising, yes. It's not like a retro game console is like an iPhone, there shouldn't be any supply issues.
You say that and yet Nintendo has met more than one underwhelming generation. Tell me, if YOU ran a company would you manufacture 100 units when you could only guarantee 50 sales? no you'd at most manufacture 75 because each unit bloody costs you money.
Even back when the NES was first out (US), I called them control pads, though usually just controllers. I don't have any of my old NES game instructions nearby, but I'm pretty sure the term used in them, at least in the US, was control pad.
The term "Joy-pad" is probably a UK or rest of the world thing. In the US at least where I grew up, the only control device that had "Joy" in the name, were Joysticks for PC or games in arcades.
This is 200 bucks with limited games. There's a sega one with 80 games for 30 bucks at family dollar. Let that sink in.
Then wait a few months.
Erik Gladding ur making excuses to take up for nintendo for some reason yet youve probably already got all of the games on eshop on wii, dsi, 3ds, wii, and wii u already... let that sink in.
I was curious about that "new" mega drive but I couldnt find much info, I know it doesnt have scart which is depressing cause even the original supported that, and it plays original carts, but what is the sd card slot used for if it doesnt just let you load roms?
GamerBear why did u even buy it to even b able to say that!? u HAVE BOTH SEGA GAMES AND NES GAMES ON UR WII, WIIU, DS, AND DSI! WTF. And u were so proud of ur response too. smh.
GamerBear that has absolutely nothing to do with what i just said lol. My whole point was why even be interested or even buy again the same thing u just bought 5 times over. But hey, im the stupid one :P
"hdame" sounds like how Mario would say hdmi
Haven't watched Ashens in a long time (like 6 years) and I am glad to say nothing has changed, it is exactly like I remembered it.
"Learn" Pfft. Nintendo has always done that shit. Don't forget, that they made toys well before the nes.
***** Yeah, back in the late 19th century. Then the CEO at that time went to the largest seller of playing cards in the world, and saw that they only had a small office. So he started funding a dozen different things, until something stuck, and that's the story of Nintendo up until video games.
1956 Hiroshi Yamauchi decided to take Nintendo out of the playing card business not the 19th Century. Nintendo was founded in the late19th Century in 1889.
David Clark Thanks, Captain obvious. We needed you soooooo much.
Thanks for clarifying.
And playing cards, but they made arcade systems before the NES and Famicom as well.
You always make me laugh. I love your dry humour. keep on doing what you're doing with your HDME.
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but in Sweden the NES was the shit. Everyone had a NES at home, except for the dtrange kids with a sega. Everyone lend each other games to a point where "bye mum, im going out to lend dome games" was a common phrase heard in our house.
We had computers and the other systems as well, so I wonder why the NES did so poorly on the UK compared to here... Marketing maybe?
I am from the UK and was alive at the time. Home computers dominated until the early 90's. Then in the early 1990's Sega became big in the UK. The Master System was the highest selling console in Europe in 1993, followed by the Megadrive and then SNES and Gameboy. The NES barely sold
Yeah, it was the same in the Netherlands, among my schoolmates at least. I knew quite a few kids with NES's, and have in fact never met anyone with a Master System. To the point that "Nintendo" was pretty much synonymous with "videogame console".
I was pretty surprised when I later learned that the Master System outsold the NES in Europe. I'd be interested to see a breakdown of sales across European countries. I'm guessing the NES didn't do as bad in the Netherlands and Sweden, but big countries like the UK obviously made up for that.
but did the snes beat out the mega drive/ genesis in the uk
No it didn't, it was a lot closer but the Megadrive still outsold the SNES in the UK. It was maybe 2-1 but I don't have the exact figures. Many kids like me had both. I got them used. But yeh the SNES was popular in the UK, so was the Gameboy.
ojideagu And come the late 90's and PlayStation has us Brits by the balls and still do today
That cord length really honks my chuff
I got mine (playing it now) got it Christmas 2018 btw. As an Xmas gift from my grandparents 2 hours after I got a PlayStation classic off my mum&dad lol
I'm happy that my modded Xbox classic can run nes games up to 1080i or 720p,with video filters and everything, and I only paid 15 dollars for it.
REGAMETRO i put a 160gb hard drive in mine and use it as an emulation station and home theatre system. the original xbox rocks.
Capitol Iris ohhh yeaaaahhhh, is just beautiful, xbox classic with lots of emulators. have lots of fun buddy.
But that horrible dpad...
+111 111 AND ITS XXXXXXXL SIZE
Having extra HDMI cables around is nice because they're often overpriced, even in this day and age.
As it happens I have a CRT telly (and an Atari 2600) from my mother. After making a not so great serial terminal that connects via composite video, I can also agree a CRT is nowhere near as messy as the filter.
Hi, I don't know what to comment but I just wanted to comment, I love your channel. Hi.
I love your enthusiasm..
Zingtron You don't say. Where were you expecting to find it? Up a horses arse, perhaps...
Sarah Lyn Just be as positively sarcastic as he is. :-)
There are listings on eBay UK for one of these with prices in the hundreds. I kid you not. Absolutely ridiculous, people willing to pay those prices need a good slap. Nintendo messed up the supply and demand ratio. Wonder if they'll get it right with the SNES Mini.
Well, I've read that the NES Mini will be back in stock for 2018. I guess this is some sort of an annual thing.
I made a small fortune off of both the mini NES and mini SNES.
I appreciate your candor on the British gaming history. Although I was born long after the home computer craze (My first console was a Mega Drive) I have fond memories of playing on my cousin Paul's Commodore 64.
What did you do to Larry Bundy Jr!?
RIP nes classic discontinued now 😞
Olly Reynolds hurray!!!! It’s been re-released !!!!😀
Guess who's back? Back again
I live in the UK and I had one, although it was much later on. I got it for Xmas 1989
I love the history lesson he gives at 15:00, it just shows overall how incompetent Nintendo was at the time and still are. I mean one of the reason it sold so well in the U.S was because Atari fell and Nintendo jumped in to replace them after the North American game market crash. I think Nintendo at the time may have just assumed that outside of the Japanese Market the rest of the world didn't have gaming or something.
Cant you get the actual console for cheaper than £125?
Yes, but games are much more expensive and run pretty bad, particularly in the UK and Europe
Ian Welch Good point
You know, many people don't understand that, and thinks it doesn't make sense. Many Europeans I've met (I am from Europe myself. Denmark actually) think that because it's PAL it should run better, because PAL tends to be better when it comes to videos, movies, TVs etc. But they fail to understand that it may be due to something inside the hardware, something odd. I don't know what it is myself thogh, can someone explain it to me?
I've also met many people who believed they used PAL in the US. What morons. And a couple of weeks ago a guy who was born in Australia and insited that Australian English spelling is the same as American English, that is using Z in realise/realize and such. What an even bigger moron.
I probably got ~300 real nes games for that price, perks of collecting nes in the 90s
It doesn't run 'worse'. It just runs at 50 Hz to be compatible with most UK TVs as 50 Hz (PAL) was standard here, so it ran 20% slower. The people over in North America had it at 60 Hz (NTSC) which is the refresh rate it and the games were designed for.
Jingle All The Way shoutout, one of my favorite Christmas movies as a kid.
He's the angry, Nintendo, nerd.
Who wants Ashens to review one of the bootlegs
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Gaming on computers was a thing in the USA and UK, so the first Japanese consoles didn't generally perform that well, it wasn't until some years later that they finally took over the market in western countries. Over in Japan itself they were never huge into gaming on computers, instead the Japanese used arcade machines before home consoles were developed, the home console was developed as basically a home arcade machine in theory, to connect to your TV etc. So consoles have a long history in Japan, I think it wasn't until around N64 and the first Playstation that the western PC gaming market truly was beheaded, the N64 and PS1 truly sold all over the place in the western market.
I was a child here in Australia when the PS1 and N64 came out, and truly they dominated the entire gaming market pretty much. Prior to these however, it was common to play some games on the computer, and those computer games were pretty bad to be honest.
It's like a polysation but with hdmi port and games included.
Peter von Feldt PolyStations were rip off consoles that Ashens has reviewed for almost a decade ago....man time flies real fast. :T
Best fucking review of this thing so far. cheers bro!
The Atari Creep
5/10 Too much cheap potshots
-IGN
Everyone mentioning that you can have emulators with more capabilities seems to forget about two things:
1) Emulation with downloadable roms is a piracy
2) Not even one emulator, not to mention chinese NES knockoffs, has the same colors and general feel as the original Nintendo. NES mini was created with a maximum care to give the user the same experience as the original, which no emulator can give you (different colors, graphics, sound).
I have a soft modded Xbox with tons of emulators and also a old snes.
what is it with nintendo these days and not adding chargers and plugs
Maybe Nintendo hates Europeans.
This is one of my favorite videos of his for some reason.
You can hack the system to get more games
No u can't
@@samholdsworth3957 You must be really young
@@samholdsworth3957 Yes you can
My Raspberry Pi has every NES game on it, all with box art and descriptions, courtesy of the emulator. So to me, this product is useless. Great Video as always!!
You seem sensible. Can you explain to me what the Raspberry Pi is and why it's better than this?
Basically a very tiny, and very flexible computer. Built mainly for people with some tech knowledge to use in projects. You can, however, buy them prebuilt to be mini emulator machines for about £50.
+aMondayMorning A raspberry pi is full ARM linux computer, and is really small in size. So you can basically load any emulator on it and hook it up to a monitor/TV.
You can get one for about $70 AUD, while the NES mini is $200 AUD
This product is only really good as a show piece. Basically, it's an official Nintendo product that will sit nicely on the TV cabinet to look at and remind yourself of the good days. As for actually using it, nah.
Kippy Kip why so expensive in Australia? It's $60, if you can find it in the store. Scalpers are selling it for more like $115+ today.
I read somewhere that the reason the controller cable is so short is because it's literally just a Wii Classic Controller in an NES Controller case, and the Wii Classic Controller just used to plug into the Wiimote, hence why the cable is so short.
Hurrah! A not-so-bad console review..
When can we see your arcade machines? What do you have in them?
lionxv it's fake
ashens The USB cable is to be used plugged into a TV USB port, bit of a bugger if you don't have a TV with them ports, same as the Amazon Firestick
ashens I only watch these to hear you complain, review more trash!
How do you lose to Glass Joe?
You put down the controller and grab a drink.
Something that honks my chuff, omg I almost spat out my coffee 😂
I really like Stuart's rants :)
HDM"ee" is actually how we pronounce "hdmi" in french
Isn't the letter H pronounced "Ash" in French though?
I used to have one of these! I had super mario and Dizzy on it!!
You got knocked out by Glass Joe?
see ashens is really the one guy that lost to glass joe lol.
not tried this turd myself, but from what I seen, punch out is nigh unbeatable with the input lag.
One thing he glazed over, but not everyone is as sensitive to input lag as some of us are.
Neat device, but at the end of the day, it's just an emulator in a box that you can't add more games to...... fore a shit ton of money. I'd rather just buy a cheap preowned netbook, and a usb NES controller. Download Retroarch, and the entire NES rom set, and run it to a tv via HDMI. You'd have something 10x better for a lot cheaper. Not to mention it could play a LOT more than just NES.