@DanielTepesKraus  
I’ve seen newly-manufactured NES consoles out there. I think Nintendo’s patent on the NES hardware might have run out or something.
 
If all you need is the console and controllers, then you’re in luck. The games are trickier to get a hold of, though…

@Background Pony #3371 You’re aware there are still roughly like 11 million in circulation, right? Nintendo made a fuckload of NESes and like all oldschool Nintenner products they last fooooooorever

@TexasUberAlles  
There’s no need to write a 3DS emulator specifically for the 3DS, because NESDS will run on it just fine via the proper flashcart, since the 3DS can run DS software.
 
Flashcarts themselves are the main barrier. The online nature of the 3DS means Nintendo can stay one step ahead (or at least only a step or two behind) the chinese pirate industry by blocking out new flashcarts via frequent firmware updates.

@FancyCat2008  
If they can have dirt-easy NES emulators for PCs, why would it be difficult to port them to 3DS (or any other platform)? Is it that much harder to program in… whatever OS the handhelds use?

@Ichijoe  
.. I um.
 
You realize this is an NES cartridge, yes? You do realize there are multiple NES games on the 3DS virtual console? Some of them being 3D enhanced versions?
 
And I believe that a large number of retro gamers, let’s players, and youtubers would disagree with your statement that the NES is a “dead and gone” system.
 
There are multiple websites out there in fact that product reproduction NES games, of romhacks, english translations of famicom games, and homebrews, so this could very easily be a thing if someone put in the effort.

Checks the LJN Wiki…. Finds some Toyline called Vajtron… Vagetron  

WHY CAN’T THIS BE A THING?  
Oh wait its for a dead, and gone System that even Nintendo have admitted to being unable to emulate in their 3DS Console.
 
in after Hackers write a working Homebrew NES / SNES Emulator for the N3DS.

This is just brilliant; I love anachronistic game/platform combos, it’s like Video Dada. I saw someone at a con once who’d used a VHS shell to house an external hard drive full of anime, so he could open the access door and plug in the connectors to watch whatever on anyone’s laptop.
 
Someone needs to make old 8bit and 16bit shells like this with connectors so they can plug into modern cartridge consoles.

@Background Pony #3371
 
You can actually buy retro game playing systems at various stores. They can play a variety of older generation games (NES, SNES, Genesis, etc), and some of them are even designed to be portable systems for easy travel.

@DanielTepesKraus  
Except, not many people have a (functional) NES today. Nintendo would rather continue to release NES games via Virtual Console like they have been doing.

@marioandsonic
 
What he said

@Background Pony #9141  
The label says “Dr. Discord’s Conquest”, so I assume it’s a repro cart for that Mega Man 3 romhack that came out a while back. I want one.

@Background Pony #7BE2  
Speak not the name of the unholy ones!
 
@Tenafly Viper  
Yeah. I wish NES would make a comeback, like they’d start making new games and reprinting the ones I love.

This would be the greatest thing if it were real.

I like the N64 version better.

I notice a non-disturbing lack of an LJN sticker.

That looks awesome! But does it work in your NES? Or that just for the display?

Someone please make this real…