starseed1981

This is a no brainer at this point. I'm happy to spend $80 on it.

Draven

Agreed. They really hit a lot of the highlights.

lwhy?

Mortal Kombat II is the one game that I'm going to really miss on this. I played it with friends back in my elementary and middle school days. I have had this pre-ordered for awhile and I can't wait to add it to mini collection.

Mike86

SmackDaddy

I was trying to resist, but Eternal Champions is one of my all time favorites...

joeblow69

I was working at Kay Bee Toys when Eternal Champions came out (right around the same time as the Genesis port of Street Fighter 2). SF2 carts were always in low supply, so corporate told us to try to get people who come in looking to buy SF2 to buy Eternal Champions instead. So I did, frequently. Some lady came back after xmas telling me that I ruined her sons xmas morning, because he was SURE that he was getting SF2, but I had convinced her to get Eternal Champions instead. He HATED it.

kefrank

Everything I'm seeing about this now suggests the cartridge slot is just cosmetic. If that's the case, this is much less compelling to me. Anyone have confirmation of anything different?

RichC2

I haven't read anything to suggest that it has a functioning cartridge slot

Mike86

kefrank

I thought it was far-fetched when Music posted that rumor originally, but at the time I did a search to see if I could find any indication of it and versions of the box art at that time on retailer websites definitely said something along the lines of "Includes cartridge slot!" That still didn't necessarily mean it was a working cartridge slot, but it was enough to fuel reasonable speculation.

majorjoe23

DJariya

So is anyone picking this up next month?

I watched a few YouTube demo and unboxing videos and it looks pretty good. The buzz so far has been positive unlike the PS Classic disaster.

Here's an unboxing and demo

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The interface looks really good. I might hold off and ask for this for my birthday in October.

lwhy?

I preordered it on Amazon back in April. I hope it ships and doesn't end up on backorder. I also bought the Sega Genesis Classics Collection for ps4 last week. It was on sale for $17. They each have different games and I'm excited to add the mini to my collection with my nes and snes mini.

fujishig

I almost made this exact post again. I'm all in on the Turbographx 16 mini, but I'm still undecided on the Genesis mini despite the Genesis being one of my favorite consoles. The sega ages and the recent Genesis collection are probably enough to satisfy the itch, there's just not enough obscure titles that haven't been released before. Like I'm not sure how it holds up but I wouldn't mind stuff like Revenge of Shinobi, moonwalker (which would never happen), Batman,some of the Disney games that were completely different from the SNES ones, Herzog Zwei, Phantasy Star 2 and 3, aero blasters etc. In some ways it probably had too many good games to include on a collection.

Mike86

astrochimp

Seeing him unbox that, I really want one. I think they just look so cool. Not sure how much I'd play it, but they have a done a great job making it mini.

fujishig

This comes out tomorrow.

Sega apparently sent out press kits that came with a fake "tower" including plastic add ons for the Sega CD and 32x and a sonic "cartridge" and now I want that version instead. Someone opened it up and there's a printout of the actual sega cd circuitboard inside. I have no idea why they'd go through the trouble of making these and then not selling them as even a special edition or something.

Noonan

My Amazon pre order hasn't shipped and says it'll arrive on the 23rd. Maybe I missed out on the first batch?

Mike86

lwhy?

Mine is the same way. They have charged my credit card though. I hope it'll be here on Monday.

Noonan

I actually just complained via their online chat. I basically said I pre-ordered so I'd have it on launch day; not have it ship out on launch day. It's not a case of having to wait for a 2nd shipment.

They can't cancel the order so I told them I would just refuse delivery on Monday and take a full refund. Apparently they're going to try to get it to me tomorrow so they don't lose the order. We'll see....

lwhy?

It's annoying, but I'm not in any hurry. I preordered it, because I wanted to make sure I get one. If I don't get one, I'm going to raise hell with customer service.

Noonan

I'm not really in a hurry either but it didn't take much to do their online chat. Just said that when I pre-order something months in advance, I expect to receive it on its launch day, which is true. When I pre-order games through them, they arrive on the release day; this should be no different.

My Switch Lite/Zelda pre-order is properly set to arrive on Fri, not ship out Fri to arrive next week.

Boba Fett

Damn, was killing some time in a WalMart before a movie last night and saw a shelf of these on sale. Didn't realize they weren't officially out yet.

majorjoe23