Nintendo to release "Classic Mini" with 30 games

[Kneedragger]

As long as you realize the cost savings over a Wii wouldn't be spectacular at all.

Very true.

 

[Kneedragger]

...or a Wii U. It has Virtual Console with HDMI and Internet library. The miniNES controllers even work with it.

FYI: Most Wii's have GameCube ports. The Wii U needs software hacks but they sell an official USB GameCube adapter for the ports.

Yeah I was actually thinking about buying one early this year but wanted to wait and see what Nintendo was doing. So much talk about possible new hardware and what direction they might go made me want to wait.

 

[sao123]

I wish this would come with Contra and Super Tecmo Bowl.

I will be buying this.

^^^
This

 

[zinfamous]

Nostalgia.
Many of us grew up playing this slew of games. For $60 cheap/easy way to have some memories rekindled and have some fun.



That being said. I wish there was RC Pro Am. That game was addicting as hell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mTTcYO_LHY

Oh god yes, there are some questionable inclusions here, but RC ProAm should be on there.

Why no Faxanadu or Battletoads? :\

 

[CZroe]

Oh god yes, there are some questionable inclusions here, but RC ProAm should be on there.

Why no Faxanadu or Battletoads? :\

Licensing. Microsoft owns Rare, developer of R.C. Pro Am and Battletoads.

 

[zinfamous]

Licensing. Microsoft owns Rare, developer of R.C. Pro Am and Battletoads.

Ah, I seem to now recall a Rare flash screen at the opening of Battletoads--never thought they were the same Rare (obviously) but never realized they had been around that long.

Didn't know they were responsible for RC Pro-Am.

What about Castlevania 3? I'm one of the rare people that actually liked Simon's Quest--it was my first favorite NES game and wasn't really like anything else at the time, but Castlevania 3 was much better in so many ways.

 

[Sonikku]

2 sucked. You'd have to take some ultra obscure clue that doesn't tell you anything and figure out where to kneel for some tornado to carry you to another area. It was as screwball as it gets.

 

[therealnickdanger]

It does have HDMI.

Having HDMI alone isn't a guarantee that the image quality will be good. NES games on the Wii U are a lot softer than they should be.

 

[zinfamous]

2 sucked. You'd have to take some ultra obscure clue that doesn't tell you anything and figure out where to kneel for some tornado to carry you to another area. It was as screwball as it gets.

It was ridiculous. I just remember calling my buddy in town about 30 times over the weekend and asking about all of these obscure clues.

Of course he was getting his info from the Nintendo Power hotline. 😎

 

[BoberFett]

This will be the perfect video game console for grandparents and non-techie girlfriends. Those types of people don't want millions of polygons per second and 20 button controllers. They want simple fun. And they don't want to install emulators and download ROMs from questionable sites to do it.

Nintendo is going to sell a metric asston of these things.

 

[dighn]

This will be the perfect video game console for grandparents and non-techie girlfriends. Those types of people don't want millions of polygons per second and 20 button controllers. They want simple fun. And they don't want to install emulators and download ROMs from questionable sites to do it.

Nintendo is going to sell a metric asston of these things.

i dunno man. these old games are hard af and not really casual friendly. those people would just go for mobile games.

 

[BoberFett]

Really? Did you have a hard time with the Mario games?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Really? Did you have a hard time with the Mario games?

I think everyone kind of did at some point.

 

[ImpulsE69]

Yea, NES games weren't known for being easy....although they seem pretty easy these days, but we've had decades of practice and youtube.

 

[dighn]

Really? Did you have a hard time with the Mario games?

I remember those being harder than anything I played on the PC or newer consoles.

Maybe my hand-eye coordination just wasn't developed at the time...

 

[Sonikku]

Really? Did you have a hard time with the Mario games?

Ninja Gaiden was a bitch. I remember a part involving jumping between platforms while ninja star throwing flying enemies and other shit covering almost every inch of screen real estate and getting hit once basically translates into falling into a pit and losing a life.

 

[VirtualLarry]

What about Castlevania 3? I'm one of the rare people that actually liked Simon's Quest--it was my first favorite NES game and wasn't really like anything else at the time, but Castlevania 3 was much better in so many ways.

CV3 used a custom high-end "mapper" chip that would have added extra cost. Or maybe not, if this is all purely emulated.

 

[CZroe]

CV3 used a custom high-end "mapper" chip that would have added extra cost. Or maybe not, if this is all purely emulated.

VRC5. It wouldn't cost anymore, but there is reason to hold it. If they make one full of enhanced or unreleased NES games, that one could easily land in the "enhanced" category by adding the Japanese Verizon's Expansion Audio. The US game had all the hardware and the PCB even had the extra audio mixing pin but the NES would have needed a simple bridge connected to the expansion port to mix the audio. Konami edit the music in the game to recompose without, but hacked versions exist that restore it.

If they release one with Earthbound Beginnings, Super Mario Bros 2 (J) (Lost Levels/For Super Players), Devil World, Mr. Gimmick, Final Fantasy II & III, etc then a remastered Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse would fit right in.

 

[BoberFett]

I think everyone kind of did at some point.

I remember those being harder than anything I played on the PC or newer consoles.

Maybe my hand-eye coordination just wasn't developed at the time...

Ninja Gaiden was a bitch. I remember a part involving jumping between platforms while ninja star throwing flying enemies and other shit covering almost every inch of screen real estate and getting hit once basically translates into falling into a pit and losing a life.

My grandmother used to play NES games, Super Mario mostly, back in the late 80s and early 90s. I'm sure she never beat it, but she had fun. I thought that was the whole point of still liking these games with "bad graphics", because they were fun and challenging.

I still hold to my statement that this the perfect system for non-gamers.

 

[zerocool84]

My grandmother used to play NES games, Super Mario mostly, back in the late 80s and early 90s. I'm sure she never beat it, but she had fun. I thought that was the whole point of still liking these games with "bad graphics", because they were fun and challenging.

I still hold to my statement that this the perfect system for non-gamers.

Super Mario Bros wasn't that hard but so many other games were insanely hard.

 

[sweenish]

My grandmother used to play NES games, Super Mario mostly, back in the late 80s and early 90s. I'm sure she never beat it, but she had fun. I thought that was the whole point of still liking these games with "bad graphics", because they were fun and challenging.

I still hold to my statement that this the perfect system for non-gamers.

And I would still disagree with the last sentence. That's the job of smartphones and tablets, not a dedicated gaming machine.

 

[gorcorps]

Yea, NES games weren't known for being easy....although they seem pretty easy these days, but we've had decades of practice and youtube.

I would say the opposite in my experience. I've become even worse at NES games because I've become so used to fluid animation, responsive controls, and a lot of modern refining to make the whole process smooth that when I play an old game I'm completely out of my element. A lot of games I enjoyed as a kid now feel "clunky" and I don't do nearly as well as I used to. Maybe I'm just getting old.

 

[purbeast0]

I would say the opposite in my experience. I've become even worse at NES games because I've become so used to fluid animation, responsive controls, and a lot of modern refining to make the whole process smooth that when I play an old game I'm completely out of my element. A lot of games I enjoyed as a kid now feel "clunky" and I don't do nearly as well as I used to. Maybe I'm just getting old.

pretty much all of the HD tvs now a days have input lag built into them which we didn't have back in the day on CRT tvs so that alone will make the older games feel clunky.

we were playing super mario brothers on my buddies 72" dlp a few months ago and it was hard as shit because of the input lag built into the tv. just making some jumps were very tough.

 

[poofyhairguy]

are these games still gonna look like cancer on a modern HD display?

Nah, the great thing about NES games is they have aged wonderfully- better than 16 bit games actually! The big blocky pixels are very easy to upscale properly.

That said I hope it has something other than HDMI out so I can hook it to my CRT where the Atari Flashback is.

I actually use a Kazoo for dumping my original NES games without pulling the chips, though

That is pretty cool. I did all my dumping back in college (and then Ebayed the hardware I did to do it) but I have been wanting to get back into it so I can dump and play a patched Seiken Densetsu 3.

 

[Ichinisan]

Nah, the great thing about NES games is they have aged wonderfully- better than 16 bit games actually! The big blocky pixels are very easy to upscale properly.

That said I hope it has something other than HDMI out so I can hook it to my CRT where the Atari Flashback is.



That is pretty cool. I did all my dumping back in college (and then Ebayed the hardware I did to do it) but I have been wanting to get back into it so I can dump and play a patched Seiken Densetsu 3.

My Sony KDL-52XBR2 looks like ass for upscaled 240p NES games over the NES composite output. SNES/N64 with S-video looks MUCH better.

CZroe just installed our Hi-Def NES HDMI mod and it looks GREAT -- except the pixel response time on my TV is still crap (2005 LCD tech...bleh!). No latency and the pixels are extremely sharp and clear!