Polioliolio
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Thanks for the heads up on this and a fantastic OP.
I'm wrecked with 'this is the last time it'll turn on' paranoia every time I use the old childhood NES, so this could be smart get for me in future.
Will wait for initial impressions/reviews and assess my retro thirst when the time comes.
You underestimate this generation of hardware. Even the most ancient and abused NESes have the potential to be like new with a good pin boiling or replacement.
disc drives is where consoles started to turn to shit.
This AVS is a cool detour for enthusiasts, but ideally, I'd love it if these platforms came back to the mainstream with solid new devices, and serious and widespread game development. (Not to discredit the AVS. I'm psyched. It would be awesome if successful indie devs made games for it!)
I've day dreamed about it openly before, but it would be so rad if Nintendo and Sega themselves released new games in their original format, and rereleased old hardware or new revisions of old hardware, or hell, even a new console that roughy matches those older systems.
Imagine today, going to gamestop to preorder a Sega Genesis game. Wowee. I can't argue how practical this all is, but it's an 80s and 90s kid's wet dream for sure. I can only hope that the growing nostalgia reached a point where Nintendo, or others, want to do more than just the NES mini.