Gadgetory

something really cool that Nintendo's been doing the last few years is their classic edition systems these little tiny consoles that look like they're old school systems that all you to play some of the biggest hit games from them like the NES and the SNES and well it hasn't been confirmed yet we're all pretty sure that an n64 classic is going to be on its way this year but a question comes up every time these systems are released you can do this yourself it's just not exactly legal and if you don't want to do it yourself you can actually even buy them in fact some guys around the office bought one of these for me to try out the retro mini this is just a little tiny Gameboy mock-up which supposedly has a number of games already pre-installed on it and it was less than 50 bucks on Amazon super easy to grab I haven't actually tried out yet I don't know what's on here for sure so let's check it out are we supposed to charge this to be didn't charge it you just took it out of the box I guess we'll find out okay so a power switch on the side just a gameboy and okay there goes it's on yeah it's got power it also has a music and video section oh yeah so this looks like a gameboy like a more classic style is probably closest to the pocket it designed but this is loaded up with possibly everything honking Boy Advance this is kind of silly I'm still in the A's I know there's big beyblade i've already this is annoying because it has so many games in it and you can't like speed through them you have to either tap every single time to go as fast as you want or hold it where it just kind of crawls down the list right no mega man you ever do mega man there we go don't care about plot let's just speed through that I think it crashed there's a part of me that secretly is like alright let's turn off and back on power cycles fix everything let's try this again Mario advanced okay let's see if this one crashes oh that's right the first Mario advanced is Super Mario Brothers 2 alright so there's definitely some some weirdness here a little bit because the image looks really good like this is a really crisp image of a GBA game but there's something off about like the framerate like it has a lot of stuttering it's enough to where it's playable but up nope I just died so I don't really know this kind of stuff but I will say that for this one in particular if I wanted to use something like this I would not like using this guy for anything kind of action intensive because so far at least from what I've tried either the game doesn't work or it's very jittery and not very good for a game where you know timing and patience and stuff like actually matter it might be better suited to something where you're just doing like turn-based stuff or things where you don't need to like hit a button at just the right moment I think I read on the Box this goes back to main menu up yep there we go oh and it's ports save states so if a game is too hard for you you can always use those to cheat okay well I'm already a little angry because they have pokemon sapphire and ruby which is cool and all but I don't see oh no way here there ok ok no we got fired and LeafGreen yes in this world there's Pokemon I had no idea when I bought this it's still nuts to me that this can be like on Amazon and there's no apparently no repercussions and yeah this is definitely the kind of game that would work better I mean you also lose out on like you know all the good parts Pokemon where you actually trade things and stuff no not you there he is that's the right choice alright I pick squirtle whinny yeah ok you know I kind of take it back when I said earlier about like turn-based games being better on this guy because while yeah you could play this this is still hurting my brain like just seeing the kind of just stutter that happens I don't know some people would be willing to put up with that but this like bothers me especially when I know how this you know smoothly runs on an actual system so yeah this guy works it's just not entirely smooth and to baylin's it just kind of reminds me more of the fact that I'm just not really a huge fan of this kind of stuff I mean yeah it's really cool that you have all these games little guy and it is kind of questionably legal but personally I kind of really prefer it when Nintendo does their own official versions of these yeah I get it doesn't have all the same game sometimes because of licensing rights sometimes because Nintendo just doesn't put stuff on it for whatever reason but there's a certain degree of quality and authenticity that comes with these classic edition systems the style of presentation and just the consistency of the system working that you don't always get with stuff like this that I really appreciate you know it's cool that way these little tiny systems that hook up to a TV but it'd be really awesome to have just a little really just a normal full-sized replica of a Gameboy pocket because any smaller gets a little awkward for your hands but having this enclosed system that offers a collection of all these classic games sure you can get a lot of them as downloads on the 3ds but there's a certain feeling about having the actual class control scheme and everything altogether that I think would be really cool and there's another layer with this too something really interesting about the n64 that once again not official but pretty sure we're getting in 64 classic is that there were some games that messed with compatibility with Game Boy and what if they carried that on in the classic systems imagine that we get the announcement of not only in n64 classic but a Gameboy classic too and not only do they each have their own awesome library of games but they actually interconnect a little bit too because even think about it you have something like pokemon stadium on the n64 and pokemon red or blue on the pocket and you can actually have them interact the way the old-school games did that would be really awesome because with an idea like that you're not just making a collection of old classic games but you're also recreating old experiences and reviving a kind of nostalgia that we're not just getting quite yet with the classic systems I think Nintendo has the right idea but stuff like this just reminds us of how much more they can be and I think Nintendo can do that they just need to take that extra step