History of video games/Platforms/NES Classic Edition

History
The NES Classic and Famicom Classic both launched on either November 10th or November 11th, 2016 depending on the region. The launch price was $59.99. A victim of it's success, the system was plagued by shortages following its launch.

In Japan a special Shonen Jump edition of the console was released, known as the Jump Mini this console featured a gold colored case, a customized manga themed interface, and a different selection of games.

The system is often credited with starting a trend of higher end official retro consoles being released on the market.

Technology
The system is powered by an Allwinner R16 containing a quad core ARM Cortex A7 CPU and a Mali 400MP2 GPU. The system contains 256 megabytes of DDR3L SDRAM. For internal storage the system uses 512 megabytes of NAND flash storage.