I'm pretty fine with emulators. Nes classic is an emulator guys. The games on it are roms. I play emulated games pretty frequently. This past week I think I racked up 30 hours playing Super Street Fighter II Turbo on Fightcade - which emulates multiplayer arcade games for easy multiplayer access. So my problem isn't emulation obviously. I would however like something physical. Emulators require tweaking, fiddling. When it comes to 8 and 16 bit games I just wanna pop it on and go. Another problem is that these days (and in the past) roms and rom sites are full of viruses. I refuse to visit cool rom for this reason. Finally, nes classic could fit hundreds of nes roms on it with full HDMI access and convenience. That couldn't be beat and I didn't know about Raspberry pi at the time. At the outset, nes classic and SNES classic are fucking steals. In the case of snes classic in particular, which comes with a previously unreleased game.
We are 30-40 years old now. Having problems with what people choose to purchase with their money is pathetic and the truly laughable.
Finally, I have a problem with this age where people think they are owed things just because they're old. I see nothing wrong with wanting to support soemthing official especially in such a nice, well made package. That doesn't make us stupid.
Now that I know there's a real alternative to Classic I'll look into raspberry pi. I really hope Nintendo does Nintendo 64 Classic if only for Mario 64 and Wave Race. It helps that Mario 64 was made for that controller and analog stick. It'll probably have 20 games on it and that'll be the entire catalog of 64 games worth owning most likely. I'm looking forward to seeing how the games are emulated there. And I won't be labeled a moron for wanting one. You forget that a lot of these games are rare, and are now expensive. And some of us like physical things and aren't cheap asses.
