There is Massive Demand for the SNES Classic

Lee Rogers
Daily Stormer
September 29, 2017

It looks like the SNES Classic is going to sell millions of units and there is a good reason why it will.

Up until the early 2000s, I only had a passing interest in news, politics and current events. Back then, I considered myself more of a liberty minded, non-interventionist Republican. I remember thinking that we would have been better off if Pat Buchanan or Ross Perot won the Presidency in 1992 and greatly disliking the policies of Bill Clinton. I mostly focused my spare time on athletics, chasing girls and playing video games.

I rapidly lost interest in gaming starting around the early 2000s. That was the time when I saw the industry change. I thought that it was becoming commercialized and fake. Publishers were focusing their resources on obtaining big name licenses and less on developing a really good game. Many companies seemed obsessed with the superficial instead of the actual gameplay. Needless to say, the gameplay is the most important aspect of any enjoyable game. You could have the greatest looking graphics in the world but if the gameplay sucks, the game sucks.

That’s not to say that there haven’t been good games released in the past 15 years or so. I’m just saying that the industry changed and it changed for the worse. There was no gaming era quite like what we saw in the 1980s and 1990s. In some ways, gaming was still a niche and somewhat nerdy type of thing. It was much more of a subculture that hadn’t entrenched itself in the mainstream. That was a big part of what made it fun.

With all that said, it is interesting to see how there is massive demand for the SNES Classic. This is a new Nintendo console that gives you the ability to play a large collection of old SNES titles. Nintendo is probably going to sell millions of these units. There was apparently a similar type of demand for the previously released NES Classic.

Long lines have formed in New York City waiting to buy one.

NBC New York:

Hours before the official launch of Nintendo’s SNES Classic, around two hundred fans were lined up outside of the Nintendo store in New York City, with excitement momentarily boiling over to the point police had to be phoned.

At 3:30 p.m., the line stretched down two blocks, starting at 48th Street and Sixth Avenue. Some people had waited in line for more than 24 hours, including Queens native Brandon Paul, whose childhood memories made it worth it.

“It’s special for me because some of those games I played in diapers…so to get a chance to play them again, it is really the nostalgia that makes it all for me,” Paul said.

Some people sat in camping and lawn chairs. Others read books, played Nintendo Switches and ate bites of food as they waited to gain access to the gaming console. This was not the first time waiting in line for some loyal fans. No. 1 in line, Alex Pekala, came from Wisconsin ready to document his experience for his YouTube followers.

This reinforces my belief that gaming during the 1980s and 1990s was superior. Games were largely free of political correctness, social engineering and hidden agendas. You could just enjoy a game for being a game. I was especially big into the Japanese RPG titles that Square and Enix put out.

All of the social engineering crap really came to a head in the past few years with GamerGate and other controversies. Take for example the fiasco surrounding the recent Mass Effect game. These crazy types of things were previously unthinkable.

The SNES Classic seems to have a decent list of games. I distinctly remember defeating Final Fantasy III and Secret of Mana back in the day.

It is hard for me to believe that video games have gotten better if there are massive lines of people waiting to buy a console that contains old games originally released over two decades ago. Sure, the graphics and other aspects of gaming may have improved but has the actual substance?

I think the gaming industry got Jewed. That’s my official take.

Nintendo should definitely send us a free SNES Classic unit though. I would absolutely write a review on it if they did this.

And one final thought. The Sega Dreamcast was a very underrated console system. I might have to send my old Dreamcast unit to Lagos so Anglin can play some of those old Dreamcast games. There was actually some good stuff released on it that I think he might have missed out on.