One of my earliest experiences in playing games at home took place on Nintendo’s NES. While the Famicon (Japanese) version had been out for a while I, like so many others were gashing our teeth waiting for the US version of the console to be released. Much of the delay came from Nintendo’s exorbitantly slow approval process for video games “produced” in the US. I say “produced” because all of the cartridge assembly, including the box it went in, took place in Japan. This, and approval from Nintendo reaching into micro managing took months at end to finally come to fruition. Bu the results were worth it because the NES was bright, colorful and - more importantly - reinvigorated the video game market which had been decimated by Atari and others. “Let the fun begin,” I remember my self saying once I had the NES all set up in front of my Sony Trinitron. And for sure I didn’t do a thing with that darned Robot and the cubes that came along for the ride.
Sure I’d like to play some of those old titles again - even if I don’t go back to storage for them, they’re awfully cheap on eBay. But my mobile lifestyle no longer has me sitting for hours on end in front of a TV, regardless of it being high-definition or 5X the size of the old Trinitron. So that’s where the RetroMini-X comes in.
