(December 13, 2016 at 5:47 am)pocaracas Wrote:(December 12, 2016 at 7:22 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: It's not a waste of money though...
It is, if its only purpose is to emulate a NES.
But it can to so much more. First, it's not just NES it emulates. It's basically any older gaming system. Buy the right controller and you're set for Atari games of any flavor, Sega, Amiga, Apple II, Commodore 64, old PC and a ton of things I know nothing about. It already has controllers for SNES, which work with NES. It has wifi and bluetooth for connectivity. And all you have to do is swap out the SD card and it's anything you want it to be. If I can get him interested in something other than video games (no luck on that so far) it's a programming lab.
I'm hoping once I tell him what all it can do he'll start looking for himself what he can do with it. It's sort of a learning toy disguised as a game, if that works, anyway. And he's going to freak when he starts playing "Zero Wing" and realizes what game it is when the opening cut scene says, "All your base are belong to us!"
As for leaving it to him to assemble, there isn't much assembly to do. Put the SD card in, snap the board in the case, snap the lid on the case and done. Then you have to get the ROMs on it, which is more boring setup than assembly. I would rather have it just ready to go.
Someone here mentioned Zelda (of course). That's actually why he wanted it. He loves Legend of Zelda games. His cat is named Zelda. He wants to play some of the older games. Now he can play all of the older games.
So, "worth it" really depends on your perspective. $90 to play crappy old games, no. Probably not. But $90 to give my 15 year old son the best present he ever got in his mind, definitely.
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