SNES Mini Classic

Begbie said:
WOW that NES-101 is bloody ugly!

It makes a little sense, strange that the Euro version didn't go into the American market though.
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Europe was the last major territory to get released. The story goes Nintendo asked it's main suppliers and selected industry experts (Games mag editors) in Europe what one they preferred and the Super Famicom look got pretty much unanimous approval.
 
Nintendo really didn't want North Americans playing Japanese import games, and so a decision was made to make the design of the US console and cartridge slot different to the Super Famicom so that the cartridges wouldn't physically fit. Of course a couple of plastic tabs can be broken off on the US console to circumvent this.
 
purplesky said:
Nintendo really didn't want North Americans playing Japanese import games, and so a decision was made to make the design of the US console and cartridge slot different to the Super Famicom so that the cartridges wouldn't physically fit. Of course a couple of plastic tabs can be broken off on the US console to circumvent this.
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Yep, games still wouldn't play without a convertor :( Just like using a Jap snes cart on a PAL snes console. Still fits but no worky.
 
I remember having one of those big bulky things where you had to put 2 cartridges in together so it would boot. Good old days.

Didn't manage to grab a pre-order in time, do I have any chance at all of getting one of these now? Will there be more stock?
 
redrooster303 said:
I remember having one of those big bulky things where you had to put 2 cartridges in together so it would boot. Good old days.

Didn't manage to grab a pre-order in time, do I have any chance at all of getting one of these now? Will there be more stock?
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Our local shop used to rent out SNES games with those converters - think I still have an action reply cart somewhere that could be used to do the same thing. :)
 
Raoh said:
Our local shop used to rent out SNES games with those converters - think I still have an action reply cart somewhere that could be used to do the same thing. :)
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Yeah mine did :)

I remember using my action replay to get a dodgy version of Street Fighter 2 turbo (boss pixels just super imposed over other characters lol) before the real one came along. I think I got the converter and King of the Monsters (Jap) in a bundle one Christmas.

Favourite fighter (after SF2T) was killer instinct on SNES because I could get all the 64 hit combo's and ruin my friends haha. If I tried it now I'm not sure I could pull it off, struggle just getting a few hits in on SF5 nowadays.
 
Back in the day I paid £65 for an import copy of SF2 (not even the turbo edition!) and £15 for the converter from a place called Kingbit games in Edinburgh. I doubt I was much older than 19 or 20 so it was a fair whack of money at the time.
 
Yeah, for anyone complaining about the price of games just now take a trip back to the mid nineties and you'd have a heart attack if you saw the price of SNES game cartridges. As above Streetfighter 2 and £65 RRP! I also remember at the time running around town in my teens trying to find a copy of Mortal Kombat 2 for less than the RRP of £70 most shops were selling it at.

Don't forget that's without adjusting for 25 years worth of inflation. If prices were like for like most of the SNES games would probably be around £100 in today's money..... :)
 
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silvagti said:
Yeah, for anyone complaining about the price of games just now take a trip back to the mid nineties and you'd have a heart attack if you saw the price of SNES game cartridges. As above Streetfighter 2 and £65 RRP! I also remember at the time running around town in my teens trying to find a copy of Mortal Kombat 2 for less than the RRP of £70 most shops were selling it at.

Don't forget that's without adjusting for 25 years worth of inflation. If prices were like for like most of the SNES games would probably be around £100 in today's money..... :)
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I bought the US version on import before the UK release I think it was £130 lol played it to death!
 
silvagti said:
Yeah, for anyone complaining about the price of games just now take a trip back to the mid nineties and you'd have a heart attack if you saw the price of SNES game cartridges. As above Streetfighter 2 and £65 RRP! I also remember at the time running around town in my teens trying to find a copy of Mortal Kombat 2 for less than the RRP of £70 most shops were selling it at.

Don't forget that's without adjusting for 25 years worth of inflation. If prices were like for like most of the SNES games would probably be around £100 in today's money..... :)
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This is where DLC and in games transaction makes up that shortfall. Like you said, in terms of inflation, a game should be like £100 now when it was £50/60/70 over 20 years ago. These days you still pay £50 a game then £20/30 or even £40 for a season pass. Battlefront is a great example of that. In the end they get your £100 for a "full game".
 
Moses said:
Do we know how good the classic game subscription with the Switch'll be, yet? Because now the 'omg must get one' thrill has worn off re: the classic snes, and I'm more annoyed at their probably intentional supply issues, I'm thinking if it'd be vastly more sensible to just buy a Switch/put the £70 towards one.
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I suspect pushing virtual console on switch is half the reason for these engineered shortages and mini classic editions. However if previous systems are any indication then the price of the VC games on switch will probably be so high (£7-8 per game) it'll make buying a Nintendo SNES classic look cheap by comparison.

Hopefully the subscription service will be decent but previous coverage seemed to suggest Nintendo would only offer access to a couple of classic games per month so it's not ideal if that's the case. It didn't sound like they'll give you access to the game in perpetuity like Sony and MS offer with their subscription services unfortunately. Maybe that'll change though?

On the plus side they also hinted that some of the classic games might have internet multiplayer support added to them which would be cool.
 
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