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who needs nintendo’s famicom classic series?

My bro-in-law took me to Hot Topic to see all the game shirts they have for sale. While impressive, I still want to support small, quality efforts like GameSkins more than I want to encourage mall-zombieness. Besides, I think I like the gaming vibe nerdcore, without the hipster chic, pseudo-goff, or brown-is-the-new-black color scheme. That said, I regret not picking up the Mario shirt, and if they’d had a Mr. Sparkle shirt in stock, I’d have bought it.

If you still have the originals, why buy all the little remake/re-issue cartridges to play nostalgic NES (Famicom) games? Intead you could use AdoFami (short for Advance Famicom) to play your original cartridges and on your GameBoy Advance.

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