I Didn’t Know I Needed A Teeny NES In My Life

  Well, damn. I think I made a little happy-mess in my undercrackers at the sight of this, and I’m not remotely ashamed to admit it.  

Now, this kind of thing is nothing new. With how big the emulation scene has always been, we’ve had dodgy Made-In-Hong-Kong knockoffs of consoles out the wazzoo over the years. It’s simple to play your favorite N64/Genesis/PS1/whatever console titles on a PC now, or just about any device you fancy. If you haven’t played Super Mario 64 on your cellphone while taking a dump, you haven’t lived, buddy boy.

Then there are these hybrid emulator consoles you see on Kickstarter and the like. Either with built in games, or the really fancy-ass ones with ports everywhere, so as to be compatible with the original systems’ cartridges. The thing about these, though, is that they always seem just a couple inches away from being set upon by Nintendo/Sega’s legions of angry undead flying lawyer-monkeys. It’s a gray area, is what I’m getting at.

But not so here. What makes this freshly-announced Honey I Shrunk The NES so sexy is that it’s an official Nintendo product. The Nintendo Classic Mini is a teeny replica of the system, pre-installed with 30 system classics like Balloon Fight, Kid Icarus, Ice Climber and Punch-Out!!. It’s powered by new-fangled tech like USB and HDMI, and is set to hit on November 11.

Hit the link for more details. If you’ve been nursing a lifelong dream to feel like a fairytale giant while holding a teeny replica games console in your hands (and you have, I know it), your time is coming my friend.