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many of us myself included have a deep love of retro gaming and when it comes to Nintendo the only real solutions they've given us for ways to do it in the modern day is a couple of downloadable titles in their main systems and these guys the classic editions a way to play a whopping 30 or 21 of your favorite games on one little unit but how could they do this even better don't get me wrong I love the classic editions I think they're a great way to experience some old classic games especially introducing them to a new generation but the idea in and of itself is much more of a novelty than a true celebration of retro gaming I mean the very idea is just to take the biggest hits put them on a little tiny console with equally tiny cables for the controllers for some reason and then have people play just these big hit games they've heard about before but it doesn't open up the true expansive library of these consoles and this brings us to the super analogue NT a system that allows you to play your SNES or even Super Famicom games on a modern day TV in 1080p now if you haven't heard of analog before this is actually their second system what kind of third they've made another system called the analogue NT and the analogue NT mini which is actually this system right here and the thing is while it was a cool way to play in ass games it was a bit much in multiple senses of the words I mean to begin with the system ran for 450 dollars and the reason for that is because it uses an aluminium shell and that only supported playing games on a HDMI but it also supported RGB as video AV all these different options of stuff that honestly Thea they aren't entirely necessary when your main goal is to just play a classic system on a current TV so it was a neat idea but something that was just a bit much even from an enthusiast ants and that's something they've changed with the super now of course the obvious difference between these super analog in the original is the fact that this is designed for as Gnaeus games or as the original was for NES but there's a lot of differences in the design logic that went into the system that make it much more affordable and honestly in my opinion 10 times better than the first off there's just what they're built out of I mean the original one is this aluminum case which is kind of cool but way over the top it makes the system bulky and heavy the super on the other hand uses a more traditional plastic it still has a little weight behind it cuz the insides it actually feels like the perfect amount and just looks much more like an actual gaming system rather than this monolith we have right here a nice little touch - is that actually has this nonstick surface on the bottom so it's gonna stay nice and steady wherever you set it up another huge change is when we look at the back of the system when we talk about the ports the original analog like I said earlier supported all kinds of stuff RGB s-video AV whereas the super analog chooses to focus just on HDMI which yes is technically a downside we're losing more options but honestly the main point of the system is to hook it up to a modern TV so this is obviously to focus on just that and makes the system way more affordable there's some other changes to to how they handle the hardware inside of the system the important thing is this is able to play your SNES games and instead of costing you for in 50 bucks like this guy it's only running for 190 under half the amount what's great about this thing though is that despite the fact that it's under half the press the analog it still maintains the same core experience which is the most important part of the system and lets you play Super Nintendo or Super Famicom games on a modern TV at 1080p resolution and gives you a whole bunch of options for how to customize to get the best image possible what's really nice too is that they actually give you an easy option where you can do things like just modify the resolution how large the picture is and then maybe add some fake scan lines or if you want you can enter advanced mode where things get a lot more nitty-gritty for those of you that want to fine-tune the image and does all this while still letting use your favorite old-school SNES controllers or you can even buy a wireless Bluetooth adapters to let you use a wireless SNES controller instead and in fact they actually made a whole line of them that are paired with these systems which by the way I may not have mentioned that this plastic design now comes in four different options this is the classic inspired by the SNES but they make all kinds of other ones too based on the Famicom a pure blackout design or even just a clear one so look I think it's pretty obvious that I'm a big fan of what the super analogue NT does I think this is a really cool piece of tech but at the end of the day this is $190 system not including the controller that lets you play games from 1991 so clearly the main goal here is something for enthusiasts to enjoy and it's not for everyone so you just have to think what is the happy medium between this and what Nintendo is doing with the classic editions imagine if we had a system that was something the size of the super analog inti still allows you to play old-school games in 1080p on a modern TV but dropped all the focus on fine-tuning and things for the enthusiast and said focusing on something friendly to the average user and combined that with a digital storefront something that allows you to play games digitally like on the classic editions but instead of limiting you to just 20 or 30 games it's something that you can expand over time purchasing stuff and if Nintendo doesn't have the rights to a game anymore and can't sell it that way well no big deal find the cartridge and play it I mean it's just the perfect happy midpoint and something that I just why is it Nintendo doing this he said it