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hey it's hime with the verge I'm here with Nintendo's new NES classic it's Nintendo's throwback to the original 80s and yes it has 30 different games everything from the original Mario Donkey Kong Zelda Metroid all built right in super easy to set up with an HDMI cable and it's super wonderful to use the whole thing is just really has this wonderful retro aesthetic to it the menus are our pixel art and there's just this level of polish to the whole thing the little floating save icons remember that you need to save everything is just super fast to start up and quit have some of the stuff that's like really nice is there's these filters that you can apply that will either stretch the screen to try and fit more stuff on there for an HD display because you know widescreen there's a CRT filter to make it look like the original CRT TV from back in the 80s and you can have it pixel perfect which cuts down a little on the widescreen resolution that gives you pixel perfect rendering of what it would have looked like with an NES one of the other nice things about it is there's some new features that Nintendo's added that the original NES didn't have you can suspend games at any point now saw resume them which is really useful for some longer games like Mario or Zelda where you may not necessarily want to sit down and play through the whole thing in one shot I mean the whole thing is just it's really just delightful to use and opening up the game just immediately takes you back to the NES era the games look perfect they play perfect it's the same controller there's no lag the ports are all excellent and compared to something like an emulator where there's a fair degree of setup and getting to dig up to your TV this is just literally just plug and play one of the other nice things about the controller is the controller hooks up to a Wii Remote with the same adapter that the Wii Remote uses so if you have a Wii or Wii U and you want to play Virtual Console games it's just the same adapter plugs right into the bottom of the Wii Remote it does support two-player games so if you want to play something like Galaga two-player with someone playing the second ship that's totally possible quitting out games is just as simple as hitting the reset button on the front and once you've exited a game you can just save it and drive back in it any time the NES classic costs 15 99 additional controllers for the MAS classic are $9.99 and it goes on sale November 11