Comment by MBCook

I loved it. Not SNES levels, but I had a lot of fun.

Caveat: I got it near the end of its life when blockbuster was selling off the ones they were renting. So for like 50 or 100 bucks we got the console and 4-5 games.

Was it perfect? No. But it was a Nintendo system and had some quite entertaining games. And some terrible ones of course.

It was a very interesting experiment. I’m sorry it was Gunpei Yokoi’s last project at Nintendo and he felt he had to resign from the failure.

I don’t know what “modern” people who weren’t around at the time think of it. And back then a lot of people really wanted it to be what it wasn’t. They really just wanted to judge it for not being the GameBoy Color.

It was a neat try at something totally different.

I hope having it available on the Switch virtual console means more people will play the games and find out just how good a few of them were.