Nintendo Announces the SNES Classic
On Monday, Nintendo revealed the SNES Classic, a video game console that will allow modern gamers to play Super Nintendo titles on modern televisions, to be released September 29th at an $80 price tag. The console will feature 20 classic games including Earthbound, Super Mario World, Legend of Zelda: A Link To the Past, and the previously unreleased Star Fox 2; a real treat for fans, as the game has been finished for over 20 years but has never been released.
Super Mario World, Earthbound, Star Fox 2 + 18 more games? Now you’re playing with super power! #SNESClassic launches 9/29. pic.twitter.com/BPPGjpskPT
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) June 26, 2017
After the wildly popular but notoriously hard-to-find NES Classic, Nintendo has promised the SNES classic will be easier to find, but those looking to purchase should go the route of preordering the console--though even that will be difficult. The Verge recommends vigilant checking of retail sites like Best Buy and Amazon, as well as following Twitter user @Wario64 for monitoring offers that can disappear in minutes.
Online, the news was met with excitement and skepticism. Twitter users were skeptical that Nintendo wouldn't screw up the rollout of the SNES Classic like they did the NES Classic.
omfg nintendo are u going to make more than like 20 of these this time i am just asking https://t.co/gGwqKtrn9U
— darth:™ (@darth) June 26, 2017
Maybe this time they’ll cut out the middle-man and just ship them directly to the scalpers.#Nintendo https://t.co/246JH5TRYt
— Tenfey (@Tenfey) June 26, 2017
Includes all the classic things Nintendo is known for! Like Mario, Star Fox, Zelda and crippling distribution issues! https://t.co/eSo0LJnCqp
— LowSpecGamer (@LowSpec_Gamer) June 26, 2017
Meanwhile, on Reddit, the top post on /r/gaming with over 40,000 points and counting at the time of writing joked about how the original Super NES would turn yellow years after use.
If Nintendo has learned anything from their disastrous rollout of the NES Classic, they will not screw this up. But who can know, right?
Here's the full list of games that come with the SNES Classic:
Contra III: The Alien Wars
Donkey Kong Country
EarthBound
Final Fantasy III
F-ZERO
Kirby Super Star
Kirby’s Dream Course
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Mega Man X
Secret of Mana
Star Fox
Star Fox 2
Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
Super Castlevania IV
Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Super Mario World
Super Metroid
Super Punch-Out!!
Yoshi’s Island
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Dank Octogons
Fantastic! A thing I won't be able to get my hands on for MSRP!
SkyscraperCityUser5000
N64 classic when?
Barfolamew
Everyone get in line to not get one (still bitter about NES classic).
Littlebigmemes50
wait. HOW DO YOU MAKE A CLASSIC VERSION OF A CONSOLE THAT IS 20 YEARS OLD
Kitty Katswell
nostalgia.
Alex>_>
They should have included Ultimate Mortal Kombat III
umm what else
Tales Of Phantasia
really should have translated Star Ocean into English.
fuggin Mario Paint (hhaaha gonna need that SNES mouse)
Also no Chrono Trigger?
Yoshi's Island.
Killer Instinct.
JOE AND MAC
,,,,,and whispers……
boogerman??????lol
spindash64
Hang on, is this Fibal Fantasy III III, or VI III?
spindash64
STAR FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-
𝓢𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖊𝖑 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓒𝓔𝓞 𝓸𝓯 𝓗𝓸𝓻𝓷𝔂
Hopefully, they will abstain from selling us roms that were downloaded from romsites this time around.
PLUS CHECKER dubs checker
source?
𝓢𝖎𝖓𝖆𝖊𝖑 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓒𝓔𝓞 𝓸𝓯 𝓗𝓸𝓻𝓷𝔂
Was a huge story in small circles. Basically each ROM dump is unique and has it's own signatures that depend not only on cart version, but also on dumper and method used. SMB rom from NES mini is a direct match with one of the NoIntro dumps, and have a same special header that was manually injected by the dumpers to provide additional info to the emulators.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-01-18-did-nintendo-download-a-mario-rom-and-sell-it-back-to-us
Smol Nozomi
it looks sooooo CUUUUTE
please nintendo make a N64 classic and gamecube classic next
Flygon the Weeb
Oh boy, I can't wait for the Scalpers to buy all of these
ZanardBell
I should become a scalper one day.
MLG_Waluigi
Sometimes, I just want to bash the scalp of a Scalper.
RandomMan
Got one preordered. All stores over here have a max preorder limit of 1-2, and they sell out in 30 minutes. Any order above that amount is auto-cancelled.
Scalpers are powerless.
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