The release of the NES console has been met with rave reviews from Nintendo, specifically NES fans throughout the holidays. In line with this, the Japanese tech giant is expected to release a Classic Mini version of another known console, the SNES a few months from now, with hopes of repeating the success of the NES console release during the holiday season of the past year.
The company admits to not anticipating the immense demand, as they were simply aiming to make waves during the holidays. This has resulted to Nintendo being plagued with stock shortages, causing fans of the Nintendo Classic Mini stock to deal with overly inflated prices from other dealers online.
While this has been fixed by announcing the arrival of new units, New York's Nintendo store has confirmed through a tweet that wristbands for the NES sales have all been given away.
Amidst all this, Nintendo has announced more stocks, and have been made aware of it being such a hot item, and that they are doing what it takes to cope with such a great demand from clients, according to express.co.uk.
This may leave people wondering as to what makes this product so popular. In line with this, here are 5 things you ought to know about the classic console:
Legend of Zelda and More
A lot of the games that were popularly played on the NES have been re-released, such as the legend of Zelda, including some items that were not part of the original game, such as the map. As part of the revival of classic games, Nintendo opened a website where interested players could view the manuals of the 30 games that were part of the classic Console, which opens users to a lot of things they might not have known prior.
Third-Party Support
According to the Daily Dot, Nintendo, unbeknownst to a lot of players, have had complicated relationships with other manufacturers for third-party gadgets, such as cartridges, which led to Nintendo subsequently suing a lot of them. Back then, Nintendo held a monopoly in terms of how many games other console makers could sell. This left a lot of publishers unhappy and resorted to tapping other manufacturers.
Devil World
Devil World was one of the extra popular games for the NES, which had a similar gameplay to that of Pac-Man, with a couple of key differences. Because of the heavy use of religious icons, including bibles and crosses which a dragon entity needed to engage in a war with the devil, it was banned in America
It was only released in the European and Japanese markets, as religious iconography was averted in the States back then.
R.O.B. and its Significance
To help with marketing, R.O.B., or the Robotic Operating Buddy was introduced in a bid to make the Nintendo NES release successful, after the industry break-down in the first few years of 1980. Only two games were supported, specifically Stack-Up and Gyromite, and eventually went obsolete.
NES and Famicom
The reason behind the familiar red and white color of the NES is due to its launching in Japan under Famicom. Their features included support for additional storage, a Family Basic Keyboard, as well as a microphone, despite not being used most of the time.
