NES Classic

[Betagam7]

The Master System was pretty big in the UK, from my own experiences. A lot of my friends/family had Master Systems, but I only knew a couple couple of people with a NES.

I knew more people with Amigas though.

I knew a couple too. The SMS was certainly bigger than the NES, but I'd say that the ones who were really into games all had home computers. Other than Alex Kidd I don't think I could have named another title back then for the SMS, but the playgrounds were absolutely dominated with talk of C64/Spectrum games and later Amiga titles. It certainly helped that you could borrow a game from your friend and make your own copy so easily!

[Tanooki]

I asked at the AtariAge site as there's a guy who works at atgames about that (the SMS/GG) since they did one very well made and (unlike Genesis) runs right closed handheld if they had more planned. Asked specifically if another was coming and if one was would it have the SD card slot. For 2017 they have many SKUs planned, but SMS/GG isn't one sadly. 2018 or bust? They made an open GG/SMS handheld I'd buy it day one.

[Thierry Henry]

I hadn't been following the latest updates but I see that one can now put the full NES library onto the unit.

... too many to select from. I would never be able to choose what to play.

[Anapan]

Not SMS. Hardly anyone had one of those, either.

C64, Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Amiga and Atari ST were people's platforms of choice. It was all about home computers back then. Consoles were kind of dismissed as expensive, limited toys until the 16 bit era.

I wish I lived here:

[mas]

I hadn't been following the latest updates but I see that one can now put the full NES library onto the unit.

... too many to select from. I would never be able to choose what to play.

Yeah jmbarnes showed me the YouTube link and for me also too many. I have my best 91 or 92 games. I think that's all you need is like 100 the most on games and your done. Any more and you won't play the games

[Tanooki]

I saw that thing too. I had to log back into my ancient gbatemp account and throw a question over there. I'm sure there's a response by now but I haven't been back yet.

I'm curious how exactly that ended up working entirely. I mean it's throwing clumps of roms into folders which are named by first-last game in there, and then at the end of those sublistings you have a convenient nes game pad icon with a return arrow. Did the hacker do this? Did Nintendo have this in their coding test bed assuming no one would find this. It's odd so much can work just being stacked in layers without flaw, nor it cutting stuff off like the cap that had been there (by single clump of files) where the save states fail.

I said it there I think too, it's too much. Sure other than a glitch here or there, if you have one and throw it all on there it's almost as nice as having a flash cart as long as the mapper (of which 90% of games should work including Japan oddballs, nearly 100% state side) but it's overkill. I'd stop with the original limit of a good top 90-100 titles. It would be hard enough to find 100 you'd not just feel rose tinted about but actually find still fun and worth slamming away at more than once or twice.

[mas]

I think everyone just sticks to or has a 100 list for games they always play or must have or collect when they have the system or buy the system back.
To me 90 is fine for me. It gives me a chance to actually play and beat these games

[Thierry Henry]

So they've got RetroArch running on the mini now. SNES, Genesis, etc.

[TSTR]

What? No way. This thing is wild.

[Tanooki]

Yup, like I said the hardware in there is fairly powerful. The one video I caught had 2600, NES(stuff that won't work), SNES, Genesis, GB and GBC going.

Retroarch supports a lot, I'd expect in hours to days seeing Neo Geo, N64, who knows what going on there. Since you can use a Wii wired classic controller pro or whatever they called it, you got options, lots of options.