The vintage, retro, and generally old video/computer games thread
?Gotcha, bitch!?
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You will play it for two weeks and then it will sit unused for a year before you play it again. Soon after, it will get stuffed into a closet to suffer.
Sorry, but you don?t know me from Adam if you think that?s even remotely true. All my consoles get used repeatedly, and the one should that don?t get promptly sold, or traded. Witness, the TurboGrafx-16 (traded it to get a Genesis), and the Genesis (traded it to get a SNES), and a very cheaply bought, used Saturn in 2002 (paid 20 bucks for it, hated it, returned it for full refund the next day. All my existing consoles and portables get their exercise just fine. And I?ve only ever had to have one fixed/replaced in all these years (knock on wood), which was the PS2 right as it hit the one year mark of ownership (forget now what the problem was, but it wasn?t the disc loader tray).
BUT... this
is the first time I?ve had them all under one roof in over 10 years (since I moved west), and I have a few extra consoles now compared to then, so admittedly it will take some finagling with adapters and switches to get them all hooked up. At least for my SNES Classic (and the NES classic I intend to get when it gets rereleased next year), they are super tiny, HDMI ready, and can run off a powered USB port so you don?t even need to use a wall socket. It?s already set up in our bedroom.
There are rumours of a future N64 Edition, but I have zero interest if that ever does come to pass. Had I bought a Genesis or 2600 Classic Edition, your accusation (I?m using the term literally, I?m not offended) would be accurate.
Why not just get a used SNES?
I do have one, and I still have all my old SNES games.
This I bought because it included a lot games I never had the chance to own as a kid (roughly 75% of this collection) and they would cost over 800 dollars in modern currency if I tried to buy them (even without the boxes and manuals).
As a nice bonus, it also doesn?t even need to be plugged into a wall socket. You can run it off a powered USB port (aka, any modern TV), and it?s also HDMI ready.
About the only disadvantages are that it doesn?t allow for actual SNES carts (but like you said, just get an old SNES if that?s the case, they are cheap), and the controllers are not only wired, they are laughably short. Thankfully, you can get 10 ft cable extensions for roughly 10-15 bucks a pair (which will also work for the NES Classic).
EDIT: cross posted from ?Random Thought...? thread, in case anyone is wondering where I?m quoting GRtak and Flareside from.