brightsons
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Me and my fiance got 1 each at the Atlanta location. Plan on giving one to a friend for Christmas not sure what we'll do with the other.
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NES Classic @Amazon Treasure Truck) (Atlanta,Chicago,Dallas,Houston,LA,Seattle)
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CharminUltra
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My brand new NES Classic and I are sitting in my living room about to watch Predartor in Spanish.
molnizzle
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ReyVGM
Member
Por que no compraste mas de uno!
Dreams-Visions
Member
rip miami
Luschient
Member
How was the Dallas crowd? If I had seen this earlier I would've tried to get one, was sold out by the time I checked though.
Fox Mulder
Member
Yeah. The NES classic was the last straw for me really. Years of bullshit hoop jumping for Nintendo shit I don't need.
I recently sold my retro collection, pvm, amiibos, all kinds of stuff. I'm just down to a ps4 and xb1 that is all digital.
properpropaganda
Member
Gonna play devil's advocate here. He looks Asian so he might not necessarily be selling them, but sending the overseas. I work electronics retail and we get a lot of people buying phones, game systems etc... To send overseas.
Or he could just be taking advantage of his right as an American to partake in our country's capitalistic opportunities.
Hippopuncher12
Member
Yes please.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
I still can't believe I got one!
But should I open it?
molnizzle
Member
NeOak
Member
Don't look at the BST thread then
outunderthestars
Banned
I debated keeping mine sealed...
...and 20m later I said screw it and loaded 800 NES/Famicom games onto it.
I thought there was a UI limit on the amount you can load?
Fox Mulder
Member
Didn't take long for even people here to scalp these for over double the price in the BST thread.
Triple.
Fox Mulder
Member
That collectible treasure truck bag.
TheFuzz
Member
I'm in Atlanta, Been dying to get one as a present for wife. If you want to help out a GAFfer, PM me. Missed the chance.
outunderthestars
Banned
Damnit. I really, really hate that.
I have tired to get one to actually enjoy, and have never been able to get one. Then people buy them just to gouge fellow GAF members. Selfish pricks.
Seriously. At least have the decency to do it on eBay.Damnit. I really, really hate that.
I have tired to get one to actually enjoy, and have never been able to get one. Then people buy them just to gouge fellow GAF members. Selfish pricks.
Btw everyone should totally just hold off because i bet the market gets flooded and prices drop a bit
I'm at ~730 now and it works fine. Just organized into folders.
redmetal86
Member
Didn't go, but oh well. There's always the SNES Classic...
Fox Mulder
Member
It'll be the exact same shit show though.
You must own a lot of cartridges
Also, I don't quite understand the people who buy the NES classic just to hack it. If you were going to do that, you had much cheaper easier options. Oh well. You do you.
properpropaganda
Member
True. Just saying you never know.
Also just curious, did Amazon not limit these?
But do they look like a cute little chibi NES.
It was limited to one purchase per account. But I bet it was easy to make multiple accounts.
The person picking up just needed separate QR codes for multiple units. No ID check, no limit. My brother in law grabbed ones bought by me and my wife without any issues.
Permanently A
Junior Member
What are these Treasure Trucks? Exclusively nintendo things?
Amazon has trucks that they put around that carry hot items (although it looks like it was only the NES) that go around to different cities for the day and lets you purchase them by clicking on a link. Then you go to the place and they scan the QR code and hand you the item you ordered.
I thought it was funny when he said my username for Amazon though instead of my name XD
RoninChaos
Member
How did people buy multiples? Opening multiple amazon accounts?
molnizzle
Member
Apparently they updated the hack to allow folders in January. You can fit the entire NES library on it now.
properpropaganda
Member
That could be it then. I doubt it was multiple accounts because I tried to buy 2 P2 Corrin amiibo a and they canceled one for exceeding the 1 per customer.
pilot program has been running in Amazon's home city of Seattle for a little over a year, and now they're rolling this out in more cities in order to incentivize installing the official Amazon app. (Prime Day this year was another "install our damned app" initiative.) in Seattle, we get about one limited-time event per week, where you can place an order for a limited-quantity item that you have to pick up the same day. products range from bluetooth speakers to fresh food (meat + veggie combos right around the 4th of July, for example). the app will buzz and be like "you have limited time to order this thing!" and then it's often sold out by the time you boot the app. (this is, in part, because Amazon's notification system sucks heavy balls.)
MrMephistoX
Member
Or a combination of both sending back home to sell on Taobao/Chinese EBay.
https://m.taobao.com/article/ESD_EaBWD5BjEjFJ.html
Well because you had to buy it through the app on the "treasure truck" tab, you didn't even have the option of buying more than one. Once you do it, it said purchased , and you couldn't buy again. It wasn't a regular Amazon order page.
All you needed to pickup multiple was QR codes from different orders. But yea, it was limited to one per account so you'd need multiple accounts. But there was no limit per pickup person. I bought one and my wife bought one on our Amazon accounts and her brother picked them up.
WordAssassin
Member
Because from what I've read (and someone correct me if I'm wrong) the emulation on the NES Classic is something like *the* best emulation there is for NES games. It's better than Nintendo's own offerings in the Virtual Consoles on Wii/3DS/Wii U even.
So some people want to put their games onto it so they can play them on their HDTVs with the official Nintendo wrappers and UI and official Nintendo emulation in an official cute as fuuuuuuck tiny NES.
I'm not gonna pretend I understand all the technical reasons but apparently the emulation in an NES Mini VS a raspberry pi is enough to make buying an NES Mini worth it over the cheaper alternatives.
Plus the thing is seriously so damn cute. Like... I expected it to be small, and I've seen the press shots of it sitting in the hand, but actually holding one myself it's crazy how tiny and cute it is.
CloudyTuba
Member
Picked mine up in LA today! Then had a nice (expensive) lunch next door at Ladurée with my girlfriend and wrapped the day up with Diddy Riese a few miles away. Successful day.
saturday of the year material
Hah, we should have had an impromptu GAF meet up at the Atlanta location. Would have been fun to grab a beer at Tap across the street and dork out over finally getting one of these things. (I'm so sorry for people who couldn't get one. I feel your pain. Been looking since they announced the damn things.)
What's a good extender cable brand for the controller? Just picked up that Amazon Warehouse 8bitdo wireless controller deal. Love 8bitdo. They're controllers are the damn best.
What's a good extender cable brand for the controller? Just picked up that Amazon Warehouse 8bitdo wireless controller deal. Love 8bitdo. They're controllers are the damn best.
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