It's Official: Classic NES Series

[GameMaster]

It's Official: Classic NES Series
All of the details on Nintendo's upcoming retro packs!
March 26, 2004 - It's been rumored and speculated on for weeks, but today Nintendo has exclusively revealed to us the details on the US equivelant of the Famicom Mini series.

The collection will be called Classic NES Series, and will begin as a limited edition NES Game Boy Advance SP as well as a line-up of eight classic games released during the Nintendo Entertainment System days of nearly 20 years ago.

The NES Game Boy Advance SP will feature a very unique color scheme that matches the original NES controller's look. It will, of course, play any Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance game.


Official art from Nintendo of America


Nintendo will release eight games for starters, all accurately emulating the NES games from the mid 80s: Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros., Excitebike, Ice Climber, Xevious, and Bomberman. Each game in the series will be priced at $19.99, and will be packaged in a standard Game Boy Advance box featuring the classic artwork of the original game.

"I mean, Donkey Kong and Pac-Man? These are, like, the best games ever," says Perrin "Mallrat" Kaplan, Nintendo of America's vice president, marketing and corporate affairs. "And if you aren't just dying to get your hands on the gnarly new Classic NES Limited Edition GBA SP, you're a total dweeb." Yep, that's a real quote, folks.

The games and system will launch on June 7th in the US.

Man, that GBA is sweet, I'm definately getting it. I don't know about the games though. Probably just Zelda since I never played that one.

[Typhoid]

Im buyin that B!tch up, it sound pretty sweet. And GM, how could you have never played Zelda?

[DeathsHand]

Looks like I'll finally be buying a GBA SP...

I dunno, $19.99 each sounds a bit steep for an NES port... You'd think they could stick all of them on one cartridge for that price (or maybe 30-35)... But I'll probably still pick up a couple of them

[Dark Samurai]

That SP is mine but i wont be getting those games, until they bring it down to maybe $5.

[Jonbo298]

Thats the SP I will get. The US finally gets something GOOD that the Japanese had also.

[The Germanator]

I would have liked the Famicom looking GBA SP better because that design is cooler...Plus, those are some of the most generic NES games, I think Ice Climber is the only one I don't have. $20 is total rip-off too. Three cheers to more Nintendo re-releasing! Like I wasn't tired enough of it already...

[Jason1]

Originally Posted by Jonbo298

Thats the SP I will get. The US finally gets something GOOD that the Japanese had also.

You mean you've gone this long without an SP! Shame on you.

[Vampyr]

I dont own a GBA SP, but I finally found the one I wanted. I'll be getting this one.

The only game I want to own out of these is Pac-Man, because I have the first Mario, Donkey Kong, and the first Zelda. And I'm not interested in ice climbers or Excitebike.

Woohoo. Now all I need is some money, and I'll be sporting the coolest GBA ever.

[Jonbo298]

Oh yeah, and I'll get Excitebike just because I loved that game back in the day.