Yup, the little plastic box that has brought so much joy to so many kids (and adults) has ben re-released in a tight little package:
For those of us that were actually alive back in the early ’80s, there is no denying that the drab grey box that was the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) changed our lives. Though the Atari 2600 and its predecessors broke some ground, and then broke the industry, if you are a hardcore gamer between 20 and 30, the NES was the taste that got you hooked.
In the mid-to-late ’90s, the retro gaming craze took hold as the kids that grew up with the NES started to miss the simplicity of the system and games. Fond childhood memories of Kid Icarus and R.C. Pro-Am hit us like an acid flashback, and were it not for the sudden availability of illegal-but-free ROMs all over the internet; the hardcore would have raided the value bins as indiscriminately as Ray Charles trying to find some misplaced balloons.
Today’s the day when you wish you had fed that retro-gaming monkey on your back with some real carts instead of those quick hit ROMs. Messiah has released their Generation NEX console, a NES/Famicom re-release dressed up with some of the technological niceties our great society has developed over the past 20 years. For everyone that still has a few boxes of NES (or Famicom) carts tucked away in a closet, the Generation NEX is all the reason you should need to break them out and start playing the old classics again.
The Generation NEX is unmistakably a NES, straight down to its simple grey and black color scheme. Fortunately, 20 years of technological progress has allowed the package to shrink a little, and the NEX is a thin 1.5″ tall. Messiah also managed to expand upon the original NES design even while shrinking it down, and added support for Famicom cartridges, 2.4 GHz wireless controllers, and dual-mono sound.
This is a cool cool gadget to own. However I’m glad I still own my original NES in mint condition (with box). Of course if you can’t afford this you can always attach you can always attach your old NES controller to your PDA for emulator fun! 
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