SNES Classic is adorable, but games currently available are too limited
NINTENDO nostalgia kicks into high gear this week, as the video game company launched the SNES Classic, a limitedrelease mini-version of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System first released in the United States in 1991.
The SNES Classic looks pretty much like an SNES, except that it is adorably small. Another noticeable design difference is that the Classic doesn’t have a cartridge slot because, well, you don’t need cartridges to play these days. But Nintendo has kept the overall look and feel of the console; there’s even a completely non-functional eject button.
Nintendo has released a pretty good set of one- and two-player games from the SNES’s greatest hits, which include “Donkey Kong Country,” “Super Mario World,” and “Mega Man X:”
As a bonus, it also includes the never-before-released “Star Fox 2,” which unlocks after you beat the first level of its predecessor.
Re-reviewing all 21 games wouldn’t be prudent, but there are some general software highlights to point out. As with the NES Classic, Nintendo lets you “suspend” games in progress, so you don’t have to wait to get to a save point in a game.
Outside of the product itself, this has been a pretty controversial little console. Nintendo has been down this road before, having released the NES Classic - a shrunken version of the Nintendo Entertainment System, in limited quantities. When it announced the SNES, pre-orders sold out just as fast and stores ran into all kinds of technical problems, much to the chagrin of a nostalgia-driven gaming public. Nintendo has already started releasing some classic games as downloads for its more modern hardware, with more expected to come for the Switch console. Unless you’re really itching to get these controllers back in hand, you can probably save yourself some money and the time you’d spend looking for such a scarce product.
For others, though, it’s almost certainly worth a buy if you can find one. — Washington Post