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Best bang for buck

  • 05-10-2018 10:42pm
    #1
    colm_c
    Registered Users Posts: 2,030 ✭✭✭


    Haven't played any video games in maybe 10 years.

    Was thinking about buying one of the retro mini/classic consoles.

    I grew up playing snes, megadrive, n64 and ps1.

    Which of the classic consoles is going to give best bang for buck? Or a retro pie with some decent controllers be better?

    Likely only be able to play an hour here and there.


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  • #2
    brianregan09
    Registered Users Posts: 8,477 ✭✭✭brianregan09


    Get the snes mini, you can hack it and put shedloads of games on it and there's some real classics on there


  • #3
    CathalDublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,146 ✭✭✭CathalDublin


    Buy a raspberry pi and a couple pads from pihut in the UK, then run recall box or retro pi
    It’ll play most consoles and computers up until the mid to late nineties fine


  • #4
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,526 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    If you want branded hardware the SNES Classic is nice and plays everything, with a little tweaking, from the era, from SNES to NES, from Gameboy to Megadrive.
    Raspberry Pi is a good fit too, and there's some nice complete images out there for a 32gb micro SD card that will suit your needs, Google is your friend!


  • #5
    super_furry
    Registered Users Posts: 27,321 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Get an Nvidia Shield TV and load it up with RetroBox and and heap load of roms and you'll have everything you could ever want.


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