Susan

> If anyone has a working Super Nintendo to sell us, I'm probably
> interested. If anyone has used the clone type, made to play SNES
> games but not made by Nintendo, I'd appreciate advice or a review on
> that.

We looked into buying an old Nintendo system and found that they've
gone back up in price from when we last checked several years ago. I
was shocked at the prices because it seems just like yesterday (but
actually 8 or 9 years ago) that you could pick up a system for $10
that included a handful of games and all sorts of accessories. I
remember a thrift store in a nearby town had amassed a collection of
something like 90 units and they were practically giving them away.

But now there is a big demand for good working systems because people
still enjoy playing but the units aren't lasting as long as the games.
Even some of the old games are becoming pricey now as they get harder
to find. We thought we could find a cheap Nintendo package to buy for
the kids, but they are well on their way to collector's status! The
Sega systems (Genesis and Saturn) are the same way.

The store we were at had a clone system and the guy who owns the place
(a real video game geek who seems to know his stuff) said he's found
the clone units to be better than buying an old Nintendo unit (he had
some of those for sale, too). The one we looked at could play games
from several different Nintendo platforms and being new (rather than
used and 10 years old) was another plus. I think it was around $60 at
the store, which wasn't much more than the old systems were selling
for on eBay when we last checked.

~ Susan

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In a message dated 7/16/2007 5:13:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
SusanYvonne@... writes:

The store we were at had a clone system and the guy who owns the place
(a real video game geek who seems to know his stuff) said he's found
the clone units to be better than buying an old Nintendo unit (he had
some of those for sale, too). The one we looked at could play games
from several different Nintendo platforms and being new (rather than
used and 10 years old)


I don't know about a Super Nintendo clone, but we got one of the ones that
will play both NES and Super NES games, and its horrid. We've never tried a
SNES game on it, since that system works fine, but no one can move in the room
or move the cord around anywhere near the base unit because it will move the
game (which needs an adapter to work in the unit and stands very high and very
unstably in the unit) and then it needs reset before you can play
anymore-which, of course, means loss of all data. If you're going to go the clone
route, I would suggest either getting one from somewhere that it can be tried out
before purchase or have a good return policy. Personally, we both wish we'd
have scrounged and bought a previously owned unit at the higher cost. Good
luck, whatever you decide!

Peace,
Sang



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Sandra Dodd

-=I don't know about a Super Nintendo clone, but we got one of the
ones that
will play both NES and Super NES games, and its horrid. -=-

Thanks.

After I wrote, and Holly couldn't get the SNES to work, she ended up
finding the Nintendo 64 and Marty helped her set that up and she
played a while. But in the course of looking through this and that,
Marty figured out how to get the Wii to go online and they played
with that. Turns out you can download old games (for a fee, I guess;
we didn't look that deeply) and the Wii controller, turned sideways,
is an original Nintendo controller. And Kirby says you can buy an
SNES controller for it (or maybe he said 64, and maybe there are both).

Sandra

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Ed Wendell

Zac has a game cube controller, game cube games, & game cube memory card to go with his Wii.

Lisa W.



Thanks.

After I wrote, and Holly couldn't get the SNES to work, she ended up
finding the Nintendo 64 and Marty helped her set that up and she
played a while. But in the course of looking through this and that,
Marty figured out how to get the Wii to go online and they played
with that. Turns out you can download old games (for a fee, I guess;
we didn't look that deeply) and the Wii controller, turned sideways,
is an original Nintendo controller. And Kirby says you can buy an
SNES controller for it (or maybe he said 64, and maybe there are both).

Sandra
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