Re-releasing a single 15-year-old-plus game on a cartridge that costs about the same price as a person could go out and pick up the actual system and original cartridge for at almost any flea market would be laughable if it did not show such a blatant disregard for the intelligence of the consumer. For poor choice of games, lousy value and what must have been unbridled corporate greed and hubris, Nintendo’s Classic NES Series rates a one out of five. Nintendo’s marketing department isn’t on drugs. They are smart enough to figure there are enough nostalgic people who will buy the single games at $20 a pop to make a sack full of money and then they can later turn the same games into compilations and make a sack full more from the people who recognized the single games as a poor value for their dollar.



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