By Matt Hanson
When Nintendo officially announced the SNES Classic Mini, a shrunk-down version of its classic games console, my heart simultaneously rose and sank, tearing itself in half and killing me instantly.
I am writing this from the Gamer’s Afterlife, where geeks like me go when we’ve lost our final 1UP. It’s nice here. There’s a DreamCast playing a harp.
Anyway, the reason for my combined joy and horror (jorror) was that I absolutely loved the original SNES. While readers of this fine website voted it the best console of all time, I’d actually put it a little bit below the Mega Drive and the PlayStation 2.
That’s still incredibly high praise, and I have many fond memories of playing classics such as Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Super Metroid and Street Fighter II on it.
However, as much as I wanted the SNES Classic Mini, I was also well aware of the trouble people had when trying to buy last year’s NES Classic Mini, with Nintendo annoyingly (and I suspect deliberately) not providing enough to meet demand, then announcing it was ceasing production after a few months.
Nintendon’t bother
This was a rather baffling decision, which meant prices on eBay for …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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