Well... I don't know if anyone else grew up in the early 90s. My one and only console was the SNES (actually... I lie, I also had a brief time with a NES and now the Switch) at the time... and I have so many great memories of playing games on this old machine. More recently, Nintendo released a retro version of the venerable console... but with updated hardware. This means that it looks the same, but is much smaller... and there is no need for cartridges all over the place!

Sadly, that also removes the time honoured way of "fixing" console cartridge connections by blowing on them... (probably didn't do anything... but it sure felt good!). My dear brother remembered how much of a nerd I am, and got me this as a gift over summer!

Anyway... all the gamers from this era will recognise a lot of the titles that are included direct in the box... Contra... F-Zero... Street Fighter 2... Zelda... MarioWorld... the original Mario Kart! Wow... these are all games that are going to bring back great childhood memories... in fact, I can't wait to play some of these with my oldest girl (o even my wife if she is interested....).

I do wonder if the nostalgia will be too strong... and if the games will actually live up to the memories... normally, I do avoid revisiting the older games... as I prefer to have the happy memories, rather than having fond memories being shattered by hard reality of limited software/hardware.

Anyway... this will be a nice accompaniment to the potential night of gaming... (well, first setting up the console... but I don't expect that to be as difficult as it once used to be... I remember having to plug the old original console in a really really old CRT television... with the difficulty of finding a free channel and dealing with annoying interference and loose connectors)... this appears to be a simple USB port for the power... and a HDMI plug for the video output... surely, nothing can go wrong... aside from the fact that I don't think that I have a spare HDMI port on the TV... perhaps that is a great excuse for a new TV or a monitor!

Anyway, some quality chocolates will ease the pain of set up... or just make everything more fun!

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