NES Classic sold out, crashes Amazon; hipsters :rolleyes: to Infinity +1

[garbon]

It's sold out, and fuck you.

NES Classic sells out everywhere, crashes Amazon
THE CHRONICLE HERALD
Published November 12, 2016 - 2:04pm
Last Updated November 12, 2016 - 2:23pm

If you were hoping to snag one of the first NES Classics as a retro Christmas gift to yourself or a friend, you can join the mass disappoint in Nintendo being voiced across social media platforms today.

This miniature version of the original Nintendo Entertainment System — that comes with one controller and 30 pre-installed games at a ridiculously cheap price tag of about $60— sold out in every store and then proceeded to crash Amazon's website.

Nintendo Switch is set to be released in March 2017, but the Internet is coming down hard on Nintendo for not anticipating the high demand for this low priced nostalgia, which begs the question of whether or not a similar situation will occur come spring.

Nintendo of  America (@nintendoamerica) announced on Twitter "there will be a steady flow of additional systems through the holiday shopping season and into the new year." All frustrations aside, when something can't be kept on shelves or crashes websites it most definitely creates a buzz.

As a member of the 8-bit generation that had no other choice, all these retro-hipster fucktards that weren't even born that want to forsake the technological marvels of today's gaming for the condescending embrace of yesteryear can all kiss my ass. 
NEVER GO BACK

Sorry, bitch, but NES was basically the first console that people of my generation had experience with (we weren't old enough for anything else), so so-called hipsters are just revelling in childhood nostalgia. You know that sort of crap your generation has been wallowing in for a while now?

[Razgovory]

My first console was the Atari 2600.

[Josquius]

I don't think the NES really registered much in the UK. In the 80s it was all about Spectrums, Commodores, etc...
I recall when I was a kid knowing one or two people with Master Systems but I only ever saw a NES in shops.
It wasn't until Sonic and the Mega Drive that consoles really took off.

[The Brain]

Didn't have a NES and neither did my friends. My 80s was more Spectrum and C64, and later Atari ST. I did encounter consoles (Atari 2600 and I guess NES), but rarely.

[The Minsky Moment]

For the price of 1 modern console game you game you get 30, of which probably half of which are still better and more playable than much of what gets released today.  Also supposedly the emulation is superior. 

And it's from the 1980s, that great gilded age when Donald Trump was still a successful businessman and didn't have to beg people to get a government job or sing for his supper in the white people equivalent of a minstrel show (reality TV)