 Hey, it's Chaim with The Verge. I'm here with Nintendo's new NES Classic. It's Nintendo's throwback to the original 80s NES. It has 30 different games, everything from the original Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Metroid, all built right in. Super easy to set up with an HDMI cable, and it's super wonderful to use. The whole thing just really has this wonderful retro aesthetic to it. The menus are pixel art, and there's just this level of polish to the whole thing. The little floating save icons to remember that you need to save. Everything is just super fast to start up and quit out. Some of the stuff that's really nice is there's these filters that you can apply that will either stretch the screen to try and fit more stuff on there for an HD display, because you know, widescreen. There's a CRT filter to make it look like an original CRT TV from back in the 80s. And you can have it pixel perfect, which cuts down a little on the widescreen resolution, but gives you pixel perfect rendering of what it would have looked like with an NES. One of the other nice things about it is there's some new features that Nintendo's added that the original NES didn't have. You can suspend games at any point now to resume them, which is really useful for some of the longer games like Mario or Zelda, where you may not necessarily want to sit down and play through the whole thing in one shot. I mean the whole thing is just, it's really just delightful to use. Opening up the game just immediately takes you back to the NES era. The games look perfect, they play perfect. It's the same controller, there's no lag. The ports are all excellent. And compared to something like an emulator, where there's a fair degree of setup and getting it hooked up to your TV, this is just literally just plug and play. One of the other nice things about the controller is the controller hooks up to a Wii Remote with the same adapter that the Wii Remote uses. So if you have a Wii or Wii U and you want to play virtual console games, it's just the same adapter. It plugs right into the bottom of the Wii Remote. It does support two player games, so if you want to play something like Galaga two player with someone flying the second ship, that's totally possible. Quitting out games is just as simple as hitting the reset button on the front. And once you've exited a game, you can just save it and join back in at any time. The NES Classic costs $59.99. Additional controllers for the NES Classic are $9.99 and it goes on sale November 11th.
 Hey, it's Chaim with The Verge.
 I'm here with Nintendo's new NES Classic.
 It's Nintendo's throwback to the original 80s NES.
 It has 30 different games, everything from the original Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Metroid,
 all built right in.
 Super easy to set up with an HDMI cable, and it's super wonderful to use.
 The whole thing just really has this wonderful retro aesthetic to it.
 The menus are pixel art, and there's just this level of polish to the whole thing.
 The little floating save icons to remember that you need to save.
 Everything is just super fast to start up and quit out.
 Some of the stuff that's really nice is there's these filters that you can apply that will
 either stretch the screen to try and fit more stuff on there for an HD display, because
 you know, widescreen.
 There's a CRT filter to make it look like an original CRT TV from back in the 80s.
 And you can have it pixel perfect, which cuts down a little on the widescreen resolution,
 but gives you pixel perfect rendering of what it would have looked like with an NES.
 One of the other nice things about it is there's some new features that Nintendo's added that
 the original NES didn't have.
 You can suspend games at any point now to resume them, which is really useful for some
 of the longer games like Mario or Zelda, where you may not necessarily want to sit down and
 play through the whole thing in one shot.
 I mean the whole thing is just, it's really just delightful to use.
 Opening up the game just immediately takes you back to the NES era.
 The games look perfect, they play perfect.
 It's the same controller, there's no lag.
 The ports are all excellent.
 And compared to something like an emulator, where there's a fair degree of setup and getting
 it hooked up to your TV, this is just literally just plug and play.
 One of the other nice things about the controller is the controller hooks up to a Wii Remote
 with the same adapter that the Wii Remote uses.
 So if you have a Wii or Wii U and you want to play virtual console games, it's just the
 same adapter.
 It plugs right into the bottom of the Wii Remote.
 It does support two player games, so if you want to play something like Galaga two player
 with someone flying the second ship, that's totally possible.
 Quitting out games is just as simple as hitting the reset button on the front.
 And once you've exited a game, you can just save it and join back in at any time.
 The NES Classic costs $59.99.
 Additional controllers for the NES Classic are $9.99 and it goes on sale November 11th.