{"id":1655,"date":"2016-10-03T10:12:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T17:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2017-08-23T08:26:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T15:26:45","slug":"thoughts-on-the-nes-classic-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=1655","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on the NES Classic Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“I cannot wait to get that NES Classic<\/a>! HDMI out, it’s loaded with great games, and it’s only $60!”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, it’s adorable and a great value. But..don’t you already have all these games?”<\/p>\n

“Sure! I play the loose NES carts on my Retron<\/a>, plus I have a few of these sealed in the box. I have a bunch of the GBA re-releases too. I also bought the Virtual Console version of a bunch of these on Wii<\/a>, then a few more on Wii U<\/a>\u00a0since those didn’t transfer over,\u00a0and I downloaded some of these on 3DS<\/a> as VC releases, too. And of course, I have the ROMs of everything on my laptop.”<\/p>\n

“So you’ve bought the classics four or five times…wow! Hey, what did you think of this year’s\u00a0Call of Duty?”<\/p>\n

“Screw that! Every year, they just keep releasing the same game!”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Look, I know people are buying this for what it represents as much as its easy functionality (HDMI is a godsend here), and the content has earned its\u00a0classic status. I love seeing these games remain living history. But there’s this Nintendo cult effect<\/a> where the warm fuzzies of nostalgia — even someone\u00a0else’s\u00a0<\/em>nostalgia — cloud\u00a0all decisions or discussions. When Activision re-released COD4<\/a>, I saw\u00a0comments like “Activision Want You To Pay Full Price For An Old Game That You’ve Already Bought<\/a>.” When Nintendo releases literally the same game<\/em> over and over again? “Why can’t I\u00a0preorder?!”<\/a>\u00a0(And yes, I do believe these audiences intersect. Worse, I suspect there might be a sidecar of\u00a0“Why would I buy Steam games if they’re not 75% off?”)<\/div>\n
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My motto remains “play what makes you happy,” always and forever, and I am staunchly dedicated to preserving game history. But when it comes to this kind of stuff, I feel like Nintendo gets a pass more often than not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“I cannot wait to get that NES Classic! HDMI out, it’s loaded with great games, and it’s only $60!” “Yeah, it’s adorable and a great value. But..don’t you already have all these games?” “Sure! I play the loose NES carts … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}