[–] BeauDacious 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Nice present, even considering emulators, its still a very thoughtful gift.
[–] [deleted] 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
[–] drunknasshole 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
You can play nes games on a toaster
[–] OneTrueCube 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Ever see the video of the guy playing Doom with a toaster?
Edit: Note I said "with", and not "on"
[–] RobertTSturgeon 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago (edited ago)
It's not for you and me, it's for people too dumb to recognize an inferior product being sold for way WAY more than it's real value would dictate; the same demographic that spends exorbitant amounts of barista bucks money on iPhones and vinyl records. These hipster millennials are literally too stupid to use any computer that's more complicated to operate than an iPhone, so it can be argued the NES mini actually holds some value for them since they would be too retarded to put an emulator+ROMs on their phone anyway.
And like the poster above me said it's "collectible." Now when I see that word I think 'kitschy overpriced junk', but the target market has a knee-jerk reaction to that word except it's more like wallet-jerk reaction. I blame Pokemon.
[–] Totenglocke 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
If you don't want to mess with emulation and actually want those 30 games, spending $60 on the NES mini is cheaper than buying those same games on the Wii / Wii U / 3DS virtual console.
[–] zoop ago
A cool gift dude ! Beats socks every day of the week.... Lick back this evening with some nice nibbles, single malt and and blitz some old gen games. Perfect Christmas :)
[–] Mew-Two [S] ago
Had a good time. Been playing it the last 4 days and it's better than typical emulation because the games run absolutely perfect.
[–] zoop ago
Out of interest did the stretch the screen or keep the original aspect ratio? I read this week that Nintendo have filed a patent which seems to suggest the SNES mini is en-route shortly so maybe that one for next Christmas :)