NES Classic Edition is back in stock on Amazon

Still waiting to get your hands on a NES Classic Edition? Well, Amazon finally has them back in stock.

[Neonridr]

Not at the regular price though.. it's double.

[CrimsonWing69]

It's not back in Stock everyone, don't even bother clicking. It's Scalpers selling it at an absurd price... Man, these a-hole news sites piss me off with this misinformation.

[jaymacx]

They rush out to be first and hardly checking out their story lol.

[arkard]

Reports indicate that Nintendo has ceased production as well. If you don't have one, your not getting one without paying crazy prices

[GamingIVfun]

The Nintendo Classic Edition is still in production, those story's have been proven false. Stories trying to convince people to buy from scalpers at extremely high prices.

[XbladeTeddy]

Why are people going crazy over these? They will play it for a good few hours, realise nostalgia isn't all that great, then leave it on a shelf doing nothing.

Any gamer who has a love of past games would have purchased one of the many machines that let you play almost every old game ever made.

[FunkyGoron]

That's what I did... great decision

[CrimsonWing69]

I can only speak for myself but it's like collecting any other type of memorabilia. It's an official Nintendo product and I felt like it'd be a cool edition to my man cave. A bit of nostalgia and I liked that it's a mini NES and it'd be cool to collect them all if they did a SNES and N64 one.

But really it's just owning an official Nintendo product and now that it's rare at this point.

[FunkyGoron]

Too late... I bought a RetroPie and it's one of the best decisions I made. Works flawlessly and now I can play all the old games I want. Sorry Nintendo, but when a RetroPie was $100 less than what I wanted (which was your mini NES) I have to jump on it.

Recommend it to anyone who loves gaming early 80s thru 90s

[deafdani]

I'm very interested in the Retro Pie, so I hope you answer my question.

Does it upscale NES games to HD properly?

Meaning, does it look pixel-sharp on HDTV's, no fuzzy pixel-blurring?

[FunkyGoron]

@deaf

Honestly, I would say it does upscale HD properly. I mean, they look like old games and mine is on a 60inch TV (it looks prettier on my smaller 42inch) so sometimes I mess with the aspect ratio to make it look better. However, I am not versed in the tech or how it works other than my personal use of it.

BUT - I have (had) a SNES hooked up to the same TV and played Super Mario World on SNES and then loaded it up on the Pi and I 100% liked the way the Pi looked. So much so that I am selling my SNES to purchase an N64. Is this "pixel perfect HD?"... I can't be sure, but it is HDMI and the guy off Ebay I got it from was very helpful with how it works and how to add controllers etc. It was sold to me as being HD upscaled emulation and to this day I have had no reason to doubt that claim, even though I am not versed enough to "know" for sure.

Sorry for length

[rataranian]

You mean a Raspberry Pi? Retropie is just a front end soft ware.

[FunkyGoron]

You are correct, it is a Raspberry Pi, hardware wise. Sorry, I bought the device and it was labeled a RetroPi and when it boots up that's what displays.

[deafdani]

Thanks! We don't need to be really versed to say if it upscales or not. It's really easy. Just look at this image:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gaw...

When you see a Mario sprite on your HDTV with your Raspberry Pi, how does it look? Like the Mario on the sides, or the center one?

[FunkyGoron]

It 100% DOES NOT look like the center one LOL. It looks like the left one on my bigger TV and looks like the right one on my smaller TV (60 v 42). But again, I play smaller aspect ratio on my bigger TV.

I got it off ebay and the dude seems to always have a couple of options for sale, good ratings.

[deafdani]

Do give me the link to that dude's eBay profile, then! And thanks again. :D

[BioDead]

I dont know where my gamestore (In Scandinavia where I live) got more those Nintendo minis. I just picked mine from post office. I ordered it when it came out but didn't get one in the launch, but finally it arrived.