6 Reasons to Own the NES Classic Edition

The Best Way to Play

If you’ve already got a Wii or Wii U you may ignore the NES Classic Edition in favor of your more recent Nintendo system’s Virtual Console platform. While you’re free to do exactly that, the NES Classic Edition makes playing these old games a joy with a variety of display options.

By default, the system will display the 30 games available at approximately the same 4:3 ratio you’d have seen on your old CRT television. There are then a number of ways to alter the image from using the “pixel-perfect” mode which displays each pixel as a perfect square, or the CRT filter to get those scanlines, imperfect pixels, and bleeding colors. Basically, you can perfect the image, or make it look awful and soak in all of the nostalgia in the process.