4e19d9 No.13906200
Why are these things popping up everywhere? I admit, I do still have a couple of the "Pulg-n-play" devices gifted to me from over a decade ago, but those have manymore games than these things are offering.
4e19d9 No.13906243
Just talked to an employee in the store, apparently these things are selling like crazy.
57d25c No.13906248
0e3723 No.13906309
Normies don't know about emulators and especially old people.
56f577 No.13906334
Because its Christmas time and Grandma doesn't know what an emulator is.
a8c20c No.13906339
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>>13906200
It's the modern equivalent of this fucking thing.
Kids will NEVER understand how good they have it. EVER.
aa20a6 No.13906764
>>13906243
Shitposting on break.
They sell I guess, we don't sell them in electronics. They are just cheapo tjings for the holiday. Is the sega anygood? It can play old carts apparently.
a8c20c No.13906801
>>13906764
The reviews for the sega one say that controlers are both laggy and have sticky buttons.
7b7d15 No.13906904
>>13906200
Oldfag nostalgia, and Christmas is coming.
d5f7f7 No.13907757
>>13906243
>Buying some chinese piece of crap
>Only has 200 games, probably shovelware put in
Fucking normalfags. Can't even just get 1,000+ "retro" games for free because they are too lazy to download an emulator
26ac67 No.13907977
>>13906921
I wouldn't have a problem with these if they were at least actual full sized functioning reproduction consoles that could actually play real cartridges, as well as what's preloaded. As it stands, they really are just glorified Plug&Plays.
d807d2 No.13908009
>>13907757
It’s not that they’re lazy, more like technologically illiterate.
357857 No.13908016
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They actually can be hacked to put other games inside and come bundled with a dip switch for two games
47e498 No.13908019
>>13908009
Most normalfags are normalfags because they're intellectually lazy, which results in their technological illiteracy.
8f7fcf No.13908585
>>13906200
MUH NOSTALGIA XD
dd511d No.13908593
>>13908019
Lets not pretend /v/ is technologically literate. Emulators like most windows programs take no time or effort or understanding on how they function to get working. Most of /v/ settles with this. Most of /v/ is too afraid to touch a soldering iron, program a nor chip, let alone replace an internal battery. Most of you are just normalfags with a sense of elitism for doing things one step extra.
71fcfa No.13908601
>>13908593
>Technological literacy is exclusively tied to hardware manipulation because I say so
Did someone fuck you ego in the ass recently?
dd511d No.13908665
>>13908601
>thats right guys i set up dolphin recently and opened up the bios for pcsx2 in winrar, the best archive software. Mom look how smart i am, ps2 on my pc!
Does it hurt to be told this doesn't take any technical literacy?
59dc42 No.13908701
>>13908593
>soldering irons are complicated
that is a very odd thing for you to be elitist about, anon
652727 No.13908722
>>13908593
>Most of /v/ is too afraid to touch a soldering iron, program a nor chip, let alone replace an internal battery.
The fuck are you on about?
80c4f7 No.13908740
652727 No.13908758
>>13908740
>Not being an emu
80c4f7 No.13908762
>>13908758
I appreciate them for fucking up aussies
b8cd2c No.13908781
>>13908762
Asian detected.
d801c5 No.13908842
>still no plug-n-play skyrim
cd0755 No.13908856
>>13908593
>/v/ uses emulators to play old games so they're casuals
What are you talking about and why are you so upset? Unless you're Terry A. Davis, you have no reason to complain about people taking free, easy and quick alternatives to an otherwise timely and expensive undertaking.
d61412 No.13908860
>>13908593
>normalfag trying to justify his normalfagness
b53acc No.13908862
>>13907977
To be fair, with Hakchi2 and RetroArch plugin, you can customize the menu/music of the GUI and quite easily fill up the remaining free space on these things (384Mb on NES mini, 290Mb on SNES mini) with ROMs for NES/SNES/GB/GBC/GBA/Genesis and more. All you need is a PC and a USB cable to connect the mini to it.
80c4f7 No.13908892
>>13908860
To be fair, you have to have a pretty high IQ to get emulators
694fe1 No.13908919
>>13908593
Do you think it's a common skill being able to find and run emulators and roms? Do you think average joes can actually figure out torrents and trackers? You really have no idea how technogically illiterate the average person is.
Also I do amateur radio shit and some of these guys have trouble logging into their email accounts. If you delete their shortcuts you might as well have deleted the program. They have a single password for everything and it's on a sticky note on their monitor just so they don't forget the only password they have ever had.
You are seriously underestimating how retarded people are when it comes to computers.
7b32ee No.13908933
Could be worse. Could be those stupid sameface pieces of shit that infest every goddamn game shop these days. Thankfully the extent of what I've been gifted has been a lookalike Amiga mouse from mum.
42f23b No.13908973
>>13906200
>Why are these things popping up everywhere?
Same reason I saw a box with a Super Nintendo on the front of it, selling for $30, filled with nothing but stupid "accessories" like coffee mugs and keychains. Wish I snapped a photo of it, Walmart should be ashamed for stocking it. It's designed to dupe parents and grandparents who don't know any better, and just grab the first thing that looks like what the kids want.
1d64ed No.13908985
>>13908971
You aren't fooling anyone.
4827ad No.13909110
>>13908973
It was a mini-backpack, underlining its absolute lack of merit.
dd511d No.13909152
>>13908919
>Do you think it's a common skill being able to find and run emulators and roms? Do you think average joes can actually figure out torrents and trackers
yes? you don't even need to torrent to get most roms people would be interested in playing. You can even get most gamecube games without torrenting. Seriously, stop thinking this takes some sort of computer literacy. You aren't special you hipster. Your grandparents aren't the people we're talking about.
1e00e1 No.13909172
>>13908933
I wonder how expensive this image was
dd511d No.13909191
>>13909172
I wonder if someone will do it with the nanachi figure that sold out worldwide in 4 minutes
7b32ee No.13909209
>>13909172
Probably not very. Sonico has a whole bunch of cheapo figs.
1e00e1 No.13909220
>>13909209
That Raymoo's face is all wrong and it's pissing me right the fuck off.
76f4b7 No.13909233
>>13909191
that hideous piece of shit sold, let alone sold out?
what the absolute fuck
f20a9e No.13909257
>>13906200
Mild success of the genesis handheld and HUGE success of the nes and snes plug n play (because, lets face it, that's all they really are.) is causing a resurgence in the RETRO GAME MARKET since soccer moms and hipsters can't afford a switch.
dd511d No.13909266
0a0573 No.13909307
>>13906243
>apparently these things are selling like crazy.
If it's both a portable and has HDMI out. If it has some fun titles that requires no internet no DLC no mtx none of that 60$ multiplayer bullshit just turn it on and play. For 20$, I wished I came up with it.
ec84ef No.13909395
>>13909307
the disadvantage seems to be that it uses AAA batteries by default. I can't imagine it being that difficult to add on a single cell li-ion instead though.
1fc6a9 No.13909419
>>13907977
I still believe the NES Classic was made in small part to combat the bootleg NES consoles that'll crop up every holiday season for years to both protect the brand and reveal how shoddy those machines were.
0a0573 No.13909706
>>13909395
Looking at some link to the thing yeah, the aaa batteries are crap. They could have made it AA at least.
52001c No.13909763
>>13909209
>"people" pay up to 120$ for these ugly dolls
3e323e No.13909766
>>13906200
>many more games
i don't really consider 50 variations of tetris and breakout many different games
5338b1 No.13909768
The answer is always hipsters.
e8816c No.13909860
>>13906339
>pro 200
Man, even as a kid, I know that thing was bound to be trash.
1b89df No.13909890
It costs like $5 to stick a raspi-type mini computer in a mass produced plastic housing and load it with a free open source emulator and 8 ROMs. Then they sell it to stores for $15 and the store sells it for $20 and everyone profits. And normalfags are literally too stupid to emulate on their own $20 micro-computer or smartphone.
As to why they're popular right now, they existed before. I distinctly remember the Atari and Genesis ones at least 2 years ago. But Nintendo opened the nostalgia floodgates with their NES and SNES classics and the artificial scarcity making them more popular than they have any right to be (like amiibos, niche nintendo games, etc). Combined with normals finally waking up to the fact that AAA is garbage, they're having hard nostalgia trips and this is the outlet for that.
1b89df No.13909910
>>13909152
>Seriously, stop thinking this takes some sort of computer literacy.
You grossly overestimate people's skill. Googling and following written or verbal directions is literally too much for them. My brother is a normalfag of the highest order- instagram whore, food pics and selfies, hashtags, facebook addicted, etc. He just got fired from an armored truck job where all he had to do was drive where his copilot told him to drive. Didn't even carry a gun or get out of the truck. They specifically cited his inability to follow instructions on the pinkslip. I meet random people EVERY DAY who I explain things to in the easiest, most retard-proof way, and they still manage to fuck it up.
If you can google things and follow the instructions in the google result to success, you are better than about 60% of the US population. Maybe 70%.
5338b1 No.13910031
>>13910020
Downloading shit is as easy as finding a good one-click-hoster these days but normies can't even do that.
In fact, computer literacy is actually going down due to normie-friendly smartphone-tier design.
4e19d9 No.13910043
>>13910031
>In fact, computer literacy is actually going down due to normie-friendly smartphone-tier design.
It's been going on longer than that. I remember some people claiming that "Windows Vista cleans itself so you don't have to go through all of those cleaning processes".
59dc42 No.13910047
>>13910020
Nobody has a moral issue with pirating a goddamn thing. Normalfags watch shitty pirate movie streams all the time. It’s entirely a technical deficit issue.
db11fb No.13910192
>>13910043
>Tfw you open up your family's home computer
662be9 No.13910217
>>13909191
Why is her hair a belt
d3db1d No.13910251
Do normies even have home computers anymore?
00dd49 No.13911281
>>13906200
The main thing that bugs me about the mini cabinets is that there's no consistency. Games like Pac-Man and Asteroids have LCD-based games reminiscent of a Tiger handheld , while others such as Frogger and Q*Bert have nice emulated games with an actual dot-matrix screen. Both are part of the same "Arcade Classics" series and are the same price. What a rip off.
>>13909419
I had one of these years ago, got it from a mall kiosk that was run by the dude the Feds busted for selling the things. It broke after a few months, but I might still have the gun somewhere.
c62428 No.13911324
My local wal-mart sells one that's supposedly a whole bunch of classic Game Boy games but doesn't name any of them. I would guess that they just get the rights to the cheapest, shittiest games they can and bank on people buying it under the assumption that it will actually have something good on it.
dc33f5 No.13911340
>>13910043
>he doesn't know Vista added auto defrag
09d73f No.13911385
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>>13906200
>TFW my brother "reviews" these things
979acf No.13918069
>>13910251
Nah bro, they have GAMING LAPTOPS or BATTLESTATIONS.
30ef87 No.13918079
>>13909191
>sold out worldwide in 4 minutes
Is that why they reopened preorders several times? It was artificial scarcity to be able to raise the price on a shitty fig.
3aa21e No.13918133
>>13906200
>Why are these things popping up everywhere?
Normalfags and nostalgia. It's like those funko pop statues, it's everywhere.
451bba No.13918630
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>>13908919
>He thinks one uses torrents for emulators and roms
Oh, sweet summer child….
61ebad No.13928971
>>13918069
Why couldn't normies leave the personal computer alone?
dc33f5 No.13929011
>>13918630
>what are ROM packs
4d8c6e No.13929084
>>13918133
>It's like those funko pop statues, it's everywhere.
Speaking of which, yesterday, I was walking around the local mall. About a dozen stores in it were sell those shitty things. While walking around another store with some variety (They had toys, comics, and movies), I asked the manager why don't they sell games as well. He told me that GameStop has issued a "non-compete clause" across the entire mall, which means no other store is allowed to sell games while residing in the mall.
5898e6 No.13929145
>>13910192
>at parents' place over Thanksgiving
>mom brings out her Dell laptop
>"My computer is slow, anon"
>of fucking course it is; 5400 RPM drive on Win 10
>waste several hours doing almost pointless tests since she won't cover 'parts' until she's seen me run all of the tests
>get the parts I need/clone the install over to an SSD
>then she asked me to clean up her phone
I've seen some shit
665dad No.13929184
Christmas present fodder.
>but emulators!
You can't wrap a rom up and put it under the christmas tree.
7f9193 No.13929201
>>13908016
I had Q-bert, PacMan, Caveman, and a couple others about ~32yo when I was about 8yo. They all ran on batteries, and I would set them up under my bed and pretend I was a cool older kid with friends at the local arcade. i wasn't cool and had no friends, but i had an Atari 2600, Intellivision, and a bunch of these minis.
113a15 No.13929215
>>13908593
>Most of /v/ is too afraid to touch a soldering iron
you would be too if you got your tongue burned like i did
42f23b No.13929218
>>13929145
No matter how much you know, pretend you're fucking retarded. Especially with family. It makes life so much easier.
2fc550 No.13929331
Our local walmart has these in stock since black friday.
327b39 No.13929359
>>13929331
>mfw I just picked up a GBA:SP in almost new condition
>for $20
2fc550 No.13929374
>>13929359
Why play video games when you can do that irl for only 9.99?
2124cd No.13929392
>>13906243
three words
Christmas shopping
and
parents
ee645c No.13929398
>>13929215
Sounds like things got a little bit too hot to handle.
0f2936 No.13929450
>>13906243
50,000,000 GAMES IN ONE
It's an old scam designed to trick cheapo parents and dumb grandparents into thinking they're buying their kids 'the video games'
>>13908593
We play games around here, not spend hours days weeks fixing hardware so we can post the end result on reddit
b8df60 No.13929454
>>13909152
the average person has difficulty locating a file that isn't on their desktop. the concept of local storage is completely foreign to them, shit just gets magically stored somewhere and if they get a message that there isn't space for them, then it's time to buy a whole new device. why do you think cloud services are so popular?
so yes, downloading an emulator, starting it, selecting a bios and then rom actually is more than you can realistically expect from a lot of people. sorry anon.
6b44ca No.13929501
>>13906339
My mother saw that exact commercial and got me that shit for Christmas one year. I used it for the calculator, which, weirdly, worked without batteries in it.
d31d5a No.13929674
>>13929501
<I used it for the calculator, which, weirdly, worked without batteries in it.
>what are solar panels
3aa21e No.13929853
>>13929084
Reminds me of my own trip to the local mall as well. Went into a collector store, and about 90% of that place was pops.
>Gamestop issued a "non-compete clause" across the mall which means no other store is allowed to sell games while residing in the mall.
That explains why there's barely any other shops that sells games in other malls.
c9ccc1 No.13929883
>>13929862
that shit works for places that are in the middle of fucking nowhere with a diesel/gasoline backup, you damn double nigger
33b6e3 No.13930955
>>13909172
Oven anon bought prize figures and melted them down at work for lulz to kill time. Those are $15-20 new, probably chump change seeing as that anon had a factory job with free time, likely in a quality control/testing department.
3abddf No.13930987
>>13906200
Profit, that's why. If you're not buying bootleg shit that smells like the plague and could blow up at any moment, you're not buying.
2cafba No.13931021
>>13929853
I would be surprised if that meant 90% of the shop wasn't just a dust collector. Those things can be had literally anywhere, the definition of garbage and oversaturation.
e3c6e9 No.13931109
>>13918630
those tits are exceptional in their mediocrity
>>13929084
fury unending
33b6e3 No.13931138
>>13918133
>Funko pop
They're literally walmart nendoroids, they aren't even cute, just ugly as fuck. A friend of mine got a year of lootcrate as a Christmas gift, he had a pile of those things and he can't give them away since no one wants them. I don't think anyone actually buys them besides lootcrate.
d91589 No.13931448
>>13908740
You can always count on yakuza powered companies.
417a86 No.13931457
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>>13910192
>>Tfw you open up your family's home computer
My first computer had a physical lock on it that my dad used to kill the keyboard - and since everything was DOS based - you were pretty much fucked. He used to try to lock me out of the system if I fucked up as a punishment.
I undid the screws in the back, and then I'd come down in the middle of the night when they were sleeping and pull the case off, follow the wire leading from the lock to the motherboard, and then unplug it. Slide the case back on, and was good to go. Then it just a mad dash to find a blanket or pillow or something to cram over the PC speaker because I'd always forget how fucking loud that piece of shit was when starting up Leisure Suit Larry.
c5761f No.13931538
>>13908016
>PacMan
Had that. The entire time you were playing, it made a noise just like vid related.
02c8eb No.13931686
>>13931457
is this longplay using filters on it?
a1f0c4 No.13943752
>>13907977
both of those can't play any cartridges though. By definition, its a plugNplay console.