With the way they treated the NES Classic, this is I'm sure a hot target for scalpers. And probably part of the reason everything sold out instantly. Ah well, I think I'm done clamoring to give Nintendo money unless they want to make it easy for me to do so.
Yeah the bots are automated and there's simply no way for the people who actually WANT one to get one through that. I think if you put one of them in your cart then it should reserve one for you, IMO.
Thing is for me, a lot of the games on that list I didn't actually play or finish back when the SNES is out. I'd love to play through all of Earthbound, and Secret of Mana, and Super Mario RPG, and Kirby Super Star. Because I never owned those back then.
But fuck me I guess, for wanting to play cool games on a Nintendo system.
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Big DookieSmells great!Houston, TXRegistered Userregular
Is there a still a chance Wal-Mart might go back up? Or did they actually sell out in like 30 seconds?
Thing is for me, a lot of the games on that list I didn't actually play or finish back when the SNES is out. I'd love to play through all of Earthbound, and Secret of Mana, and Super Mario RPG, and Kirby Super Star. Because I never owned those back then.
But fuck me I guess, for wanting to play cool games on a Nintendo system.
Well there's ways of playing those games on a Nintendo system. :P I bet you could pick up a WiiU for cheaper than the scalpers are going to sell these things on Ebay.
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Big DookieSmells great!Houston, TXRegistered Userregular
Wait, when does Gamestop actually start taking pre-orders in store? Is it now or tonight?
I'm not giving Nintendo even more money because I can't get the SNES Classic at retail price. I'll just not play them instead, because i've gone this long without playing them and been fine.
I waited for target because I don't buy anything from Walmart. I got all the way to the final check out and then m cart + website got all fucked. I didn't get one
I'm not giving Nintendo even more money because I can't get the SNES Classic at retail price. I'll just not play them instead, because i've gone this long without playing them and been fine.
Buy it used then.
e: I'm being a jerk, but you're moving the goalposts. :P
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Big DookieSmells great!Houston, TXRegistered Userregular
I'm not giving Nintendo even more money because I can't get the SNES Classic at retail price. I'll just not play them instead, because i've gone this long without playing them and been fine.
Buy it used then.
e: I'm being a jerk, but you're moving the goalposts. :P
Still have to buy the games themselves, from Nintendo garbage online store. And that's more directly giving them money than any of these other ways, either used or through a retailer that has already purchased them from Nintendo.
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I'm not giving Nintendo even more money because I can't get the SNES Classic at retail price. I'll just not play them instead, because i've gone this long without playing them and been fine.
Buy it used then.
e: I'm being a jerk, but you're moving the goalposts. :P
Still have to buy the games themselves, from Nintendo garbage online store. And that's more directly giving them money than any of these other ways, either used or through a retailer that has already purchased them from Nintendo.
Haha alright you're right. The $8 to buy a good SNES game you've never played (Seriously, you NEED to play Super Mario RPG... it's so damn good) is obviously too much money to give to the evil Nintendo to play an incredible game for the first time.
yeah I immediately called the closest gamestop to me and asked if i could preorder, at that point they told me they had 1. I rushed over there, got there 10 mins from when that tweet went out. It was gone by the time I got there and there was a sad procession of gamers going in and coming back out
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Left work to sit in line at local GS. The rep here said he got an email a long time ago that they may get up to 6. I'm 8th in line. Figured I might as well wait just to see if I can nab one cause it's the best option.
Might want to call before you get there in case there is already a line.
Yeah, I only had a chance at one close by. I called two others further away en route and both said they were already sold out. Got to the one and they were already sold out as well. Guess that's that.
Man, even in the marketing video a couple pages back, the Star Fox games looked pretty damn low FPS. Is that why Star Fox was so hard back in the day?
I don't know that it made it harder, but yeah, Star Fox ran at about 14 FPS. Even those shitty, texture-less polys strained the shit out of the SNES
God damn. As a dumb kid I probably never really noticed/realized how bad playing a game at 14 FPS was, but it's really noticeable now. I've seen Stunt Race FX be choppy on an emulator and assumed it was bad SuperFX emulation, but that was probably just me not remembering just how poorly those games ran even on the original hardware.
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KoopahTroopahThe koopas, the troopas.Philadelphia, PARegistered Userregular
13 people in line. Rep rebooted his system, and they got 4 for pre-order. Gross.
I'm in the same boat as a lot of people in that I want one, but I'm not sure how willing I am to go nuts for one. If Nintendo isn't going to meet the demand, I'll just not worry about it. I have old hardware and an ever drive, so outside of SF2, I'm not missing out on much. Might give the local GS a call though
I'm in the same boat as a lot of people in that I want one, but I'm not sure how willing I am to go nuts for one. If Nintendo isn't going to meet the demand, I'll just not worry about it. I have old hardware and an ever drive, so outside of SF2, I'm not missing out on much. Might give the local GS a call though
Chances are at this point that all of the preorders at your local GS are either taken, or there are people in line to take them. While I was in line, people kept coming in and going out asking for one as well as the rep's phone was going off like crazy.
yeah guess i'll just bust out my snes since I own most of the games I actually cared about still, earthbound, super mario rpg, legend of mana. Woulda been nice to have some other shit though like ff3
Man, I had hope this one was going to be better. The only way I got an NES classic last year was dumb luck (grocery shopping while a stocker was wheeling a cart with an NES classic in it out).
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But fuck me I guess, for wanting to play cool games on a Nintendo system.
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Well there's ways of playing those games on a Nintendo system. :P I bet you could pick up a WiiU for cheaper than the scalpers are going to sell these things on Ebay.
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Buy it used then.
e: I'm being a jerk, but you're moving the goalposts. :P
Fuck.
Alright, I'm heading out for a bit. Wish me luck.
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Might want to call before you get there in case there is already a line.
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Still have to buy the games themselves, from Nintendo garbage online store. And that's more directly giving them money than any of these other ways, either used or through a retailer that has already purchased them from Nintendo.
@KoopahTroopah THANK YOU! Just went in and got mine taken care of!
Haha alright you're right. The $8 to buy a good SNES game you've never played (Seriously, you NEED to play Super Mario RPG... it's so damn good) is obviously too much money to give to the evil Nintendo to play an incredible game for the first time.
Oh fuck that.
I don't know that it made it harder, but yeah, Star Fox ran at about 14 FPS. Even those shitty, texture-less polys strained the shit out of the SNES
Well for her its like 5 minutes away heh.
Eh. If I don't get one for him, I'll just find something else to get him. No big deal.
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Yeah, I only had a chance at one close by. I called two others further away en route and both said they were already sold out. Got to the one and they were already sold out as well. Guess that's that.
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Ugh, back on the hunt.
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Chances are at this point that all of the preorders at your local GS are either taken, or there are people in line to take them. While I was in line, people kept coming in and going out asking for one as well as the rep's phone was going off like crazy.
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Demand must be staggeringly ludicrous.
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