What? It was for sale on Best Buy's website for two days. More are coming in. You can get the SNES off the BB website right now, too with price match guarantee. You will be able to get one. Just let the next two, three or four shipments come in.

Best Buy only sells it if you can go pick it up.
Nearest one to me is 300 miles. :P

I think I got one from Wallmart but I won't know till it gets here.

And I've never played an SNES so I really have no interest in the nostalgia for that.

I don;t have nostalgia for it either but its a good little console. Some excellent games on there.

I can feel the pain to a degree. My nearest BB is 65-70 miles away.

But if you like the NES Classic, you will like the SNES Classic. I personally think Super Mario World and SMW 2: Yoshi's Island are the two best Super Mario games (I prefer my Mario games 2D over 3D).

Donkey Kong Country is excellent (even if it has become popular and hipster to bash the series).

Every game on the SNES Classic holds up. A Link to the Past, Super Metroid, Secret if Mana, Final Fantasy III/VI are some of the best games ever. And Earthbound makes the price of admission alone worth it as that game in cart by itself sells for more the the whole system.

I don't doubt that, but I've never played a single game on it. :P
Well I Emulated Super Metroid and it was orgasmic, but that was because of the series. ALL METROID GAMES are amazing, regardless of system.

If I could snag an SNES for super cheap I would consider it, but it just doesn't have the pull NES does. I spend hundreds and hundreds of hours on those games. Even the ones that don't hold up over time are worth playing for me.

IMHO it's better to get power cord extender instead of controller extender so you can reset or turn off at leisure.

I'm just happy with my mini NES. Who would have thought that PacMan and Excitebike will still be fun after all these years? The mini NES feels like a better value than the mini SNES but i'm happy with both.

Meh. I never got the hullaballoo about the NES/SNES Classic. It's just Nintendo trying to sell you the same games for the thousandth time now on device Z instead of X or Y (because who would ever want to carry over those games to a new device despite them being tied to an account? /s).

I'll just stick to the much more convenient OpenEmu on my Mac mini. ;)

How the bloody hell is that better? You then need to buy an even longer HDMI. Screw that. Just extend the controllers reach.
Some people actually like to legally own the games. Incredible the hypocrisy on GOG over this sort of thing. Oh, a chance to buy it. Na, lets just pirate it for free instead!

My issue is that I've already bought some of these games twice or in some instances a third time over the years, and I decided enough is enough with Nintendo trying to milk the crap out of its customers because they're shit at online logistics and fond of locking accounts to a single device (hello Wii!, hello DS!) - sure, this may not really be applicable to the NES/SNES Classic since they're locked down playthings, but it's a general running theme for them - so I'm simply done supporting them in that part of their business.

In addition, I'm by and large a PC-centric gamer again, and since for the most part old console games cannot be bought for PC in any way, shape, or form it's another strike against their business model. The ones that are available are DRM-ed, so that's a nope. Yes, I could dump ROMs from overpriced legitimate physical copies, but it's not like these companies would see any money from that either, so... *shrug* Fuck 'em, I say.

I wish Nintendo would have made these consoles more functional by designing them to accept cartridges, but they didn't. I avoided the consoles for that reason as well as the reason of Nintendo's phony supply shortage to inrease hype for their products. Many people, including their fans, bought the systems from scalpers for an inflated price.

I didn't let myself get sucked into that hype, but I already own both original systems and still have a few games, so I understand why the OP is really exicited, since he never owned one of the original systems--too bad the games on the consoles are very limited (outside of a mod).

It's here.

I wish it had been widescreen. filling up the entire TV, but I guess nothing is perfect.

And I forgot how small the NES controllers are. :P

Can anyone who has one and played around with it for a while PM me?

thanks :D

While I respect your viewpoint there is one mistake in your post. You seem to be under the impression the mini nes and snes seem to be locked down and that's probably what Nintendo wants people to believe but they are pretty easy to open up and play what you want on it. Not sure about the mini nes but you can use the mini snes to play sega mastersystem/megadrive, pc engine etc games on.

Including Other M? (That particular Metroid game was received very poorly on its release.)

Except that the original NES games are not wide screen, so they would have to be distorted to fill the entire screen.

And at least the controllers are like the Famicom Classic (which I might import at some point), where the controllers are smaller than the original controller. (The Famicom Classic has hardwired controllers like the original Famicom and a similar collection of games (but with some differences); if you import, keep in mind thatthe games and main menu are in Japanese. Without Japanese knowledge, Zelda 2 might be playable if you've played the NES version (note that this would be the FDS version here), but Final Fantasy 3 (replaces 1 in the Famicom Classic) might not be.)

Both systems use the same hardware inside; it's just the software that's different. You can actually load the software from one system in the other one; just be aware that there might be controller issues. Playing a Sega Genesis game that actually uses all 3 face buttons for different purposes (that is, not Sonic) might by a problem if you only have a NES Classic controller.

Also, you could load a custom Linux system on it with the right knowledge.

the ONLY METROID GAMES that would work well are the ones up thru fusion/zero mission. Anything after that has A; no core or B: will not run well. You also forget the option of adding extra storage to the ~230-250 MB on NAND via USB storage (depending on system) to add MORE systems like Playstation 1 (controller like gamecube one that hooks to wiimote recommended) or n64 titles (find one that runs and again: use controller recommended for PS1). get a SNES controller with extender cable and you're good for many systems. The mini NES and SNES (at least the re-releases of the NES mini) have the same guts just a different .hqus (load file for the opposite system-SNES .hqus for NES and vice-versa into a program, setup the other one with a blank game point back out, and you got dual-boot).

Heck, you setup a OTG hub right, and you can do wireless and play with other systems over the internet.

Other M is a wii game. The wii is more powerful by far than a classic. The ONLY emulator for wii is dolphin. Dolphin I do not think has a retroarch core for PC