With so many people turning the Pi into a retrogaming machine, these mini-consoles purpose built for the same should have been immediately loved by hardware hackers, right? So what happened?

The Nintendo Classic Mini took the world by storm this year — finally, an NES in a cute, tiny package that isn’t 3D printed and running off a Raspberry Pi! It’s resoundingly popular and ...

Fast-forward 30 years and the NES is back, however this time it is a ... Which raises the issue of who the Nintendo Classic Mini is for and where Nintendo intended it to be used.

Then, earlier this year, Nintendo re-released the mini console — it's now kept in ongoing production, and is relatively easy to find in stores. At just $60, the NES Classic Edition is in impulse ...