Then if you want a clean entertainment center, you can store the cartridge adapter after ripping your games and tuck the base unit away out of sight beneath your TV. This plugs into a larger adapter that reads classic cartridges and stores the game ROMs on the SD card. The actual console itself is a small brick that stores games on a MicroSD card. (USB controllers are also supported if you don’t want to spring for the separate adapter that will use your vintage controllers.) In fact that whole package is of a much higher quality than the Retron, with solid plastic that doesn’t feel like it’s going to break the moment you use it. It’s even got a very nice controller, which may not be wireless but is far more comfortable and solidly built. More expensive and more complicated to set up than the Retron 5, the Retro Freak is ultimately worth the extra effort: this is a superior machine that offers the same functionality and then some without the same drawbacks. Though the cord length issue persists - it’s longer, but still nowhere near long enough for living room setups - and some convenience issues with the hardware haven’t been addressed, it’s hard to imagine a more slickly packaged, densely concentrated dose of sweet nostalgia.
Matched with a suite of display options ranging from fuzzy CRT emulation to crisp HD output, rewind and suspend options, and a bucketful of fun Nintendo Easter eggs, and the SNES Mini Classic is an incredibly easy sell.
And these aren’t museum pieces games like The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Punch-Out!, and Super Mario World are still as playable and engaging today as they were in the heyday of the SNES, and you could easily lose tens or hundreds of hours thoroughly putting the entire library through its paces. The games library, while slimmer than its predecessors at only 21 games, represents an amazing array of the best of their era, games that changed gaming in fundamental ways or established tropes and design principles that continue to echo in game development today.
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