Reliving my youth

[FreezyIce]

Nintendo came out with a NES mini system last year with 30 games pre loaded on it. They recently announced they are not making them anymore.

A friend of mine is out of town for a while and was kind enough to lend me his for a couple of weeks. These are the games available:

Balloon Fight
Bubble Bobble
Castlevania
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Dr. Mario
Excitebike
Final Fantasy
Galaga
Ghosts’n Gobline
Gradius
Ice Climber
Kid Icarus
Kirby’s Adventure
Mario Bros.
Mega Man 2
Metroid
Ninja Gaiden
Pac-Man
Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream
StarTropics
Super C
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Tecmo Bowl
The Legend of Zelda
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link




Needless to say, I've less than productive as of late.

[Guest110920]

Originally Posted by FreezyIce

Nintendo came out with a NES mini system last year with 30 games pre loaded on it. They recently announced they are not making them anymore.

A friend of mine is out of town for a while and was kind enough to lend me his for a couple of weeks. These are the games available:

Balloon Fight
Bubble Bobble
Castlevania
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest
Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong Jr.
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Dr. Mario
Excitebike
Final Fantasy
Galaga
Ghosts’n Gobline
Gradius
Ice Climber
Kid Icarus
Kirby’s Adventure
Mario Bros.
Mega Man 2
Metroid
Ninja Gaiden
Pac-Man
Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream
StarTropics
Super C
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Tecmo Bowl
The Legend of Zelda
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link




Needless to say, I've less than productive as of late.

Never really played original Nintendo. I did play Super Nintendo a bit. Some of those games I was playing in coin-op arcades when I was a teenager though, long ago.

[JdeHog]

I love my NES Classic - there's something about the simplicity of classic games that makes them so enjoyable. Looking forward to the SNES Classic, when it becomes available.

[Guest110920]

Wasn't there some deal about having to blow in the cartridges if they didn't work? Seems like I remember seeing that somewhere.

[FreezyIce]

Yes! Back in the day. Only way to get them to work.
Pain in the ass

[bluffcityguy]

Originally Posted by FreezyIce

Nintendo came out with a NES mini system last year with 30 games pre loaded on it. They recently announced they are not making them anymore.

I'm kinda surprised. I follow the ThinkGeek website for geek related crap I want to buy, and it seemed that whenever ThinkGeek got a supply of the NES Minis they'd sell out of them in hours (maybe minutes). Seemed to me that Nintendo could sell a lot more of them to nostalgic Gen-Xers. (Is that the right generation? I'm colorblind in that area of the spectrum...)

Cheers,

bcg

[Guest110920]

Originally Posted by bluffcityguy

I'm kinda surprised. I follow the ThinkGeek website for geek related crap I want to buy, and it seemed that whenever ThinkGeek got a supply of the NES Minis they'd sell out of them in hours (maybe minutes). Seemed to me that Nintendo could sell a lot more of them to nostalgic Gen-Xers. (Is that the right generation? I'm colorblind in that area of the spectrum...)

Cheers,

bcg

Yes on the generation. That's where I belong and they were released and popular when I was school aged.

[jeffycisme]

why quit making something you cant keep enough of, sounds like terrible business to me, they are all up in arms about this switch thing, but i bet those are available everywhere, lady at best buy told me they sold 100 switches the first week, i said how many classics did you sell the first week, her reply they sold out in 1 hour lol, 2+2=6