Live Magazine Christmas 2016 Edition

ONSOLES!
“The Nintendo Classic Mini while being
a great little plug ‘n’ play console,
isn’t all what it’s cracked up to be.
Don’t let this deter you from buying
it, just look at this as the fine print/
asterisks on the box... also it’s sort of
a review too.
The cords are criminally short! All
of them! The HDMI & Micro USB for
power are barely long enough to allow
it in an entertainment unit & the
controller cord is as small as the Wii
Classic controllers & Wii nunchuks...
which means unless your TV is no
bigger than a 26 inch, your gonna
need some longer cables!
The versions of games on it in some
cases (like SMB) are revisions & will
have alterations that most won’t notice
but I certainly did. Then there’s
the input lag... which admittedly is
the HDTV’s fault, but since this is a
HDMI device... it should have been
compensated for via the Mini NES
itself. The CRT filter is also fuzzier
than the games on a CRT via the old
NES & can actually cause eye strain
after prolonged use so just stick to
4:3 since pixel perfect is squished
too much & adds no performance
whatsoever to the games.
As for the game selection... it’s pretty
good... but some choices aren’t very
good. Now this will be on a person by
person basis, but I personally found a
few games quite boring or pointless
like Tecmo Bowl for me personally is
both pointless & boring... but again,
this is subjective. Most people will
want this for the NES golden roster
of Zelda, Metroid & Mario, but it’s variety
is really good. Sadly there is no
way to expand the library of games
on the Mini NES so don’t expect an
eShop for it.
The Nintendo Classic Mini NES is excellent
value. The same games via
the Wii U Virtual Console is valued
at $180 so this only being $100 is a
much better choice(when it’s available
again, Preorder asap!). There’s
guaranteed more than enough of the
games here to warrant the purchase
for young or old & most definitely
cheaper than the original hardware
& games... but if you already own all
or most of them on the original hardware...
you wouldn’t be missing anything.”
- Jean-Paul Bartolomei
“I really wish new gen games would
have spilt screen. It has always been
a kind of bonding for my brother and
I to sit down and play the Halo campaign
together, and it was highly disappointing
that I couldn’t do it with
halo 5. I would quite happily sacrifice
some of the graphics if it meant
I could enjoy the story mode with
someone in the same room.”
- Brad Meehan
“I’d like to see evolution through
gaming and how we have arrived
from PONG to things like watchdogs
2. Being a “retro” gaming franchise,
it would be interesting to see your
take on what games made the revolutionary
mark in history.”
- Kodi Willems