Christmas 1985 is just around the corner as the mini NES Classic Edition is only a few days away from launch. The early reviews from outlets are quite positive and we here can’t wait to get our hands on one soon.

But one thing that hasn’t really been talked about is just what this little bugger is packing under the hood. Peter Brown from GameSpot has answered that question by cracking one open and having a look inside.

Unless you want to desolder flash memory from the motherboard, looks like it’s impossible to add new games to NES Classic. pic.twitter.com/jc99WSrNJj

— Peter Brown (@PCBrown) November 2, 2016

After he posted this above photo from the the inside of the unit the internet took over to play Sherlock Holmes. They found some neat things that include:

• SoC: Allwinner R16 (4x Cortex A7, Mali400MP2 GPU)

• RAM: SKHynix (256MB DDR3)

• Flash: Spansion 512MB SLC NAND flash, TSOP48

• PMU: AXP223

That may not sound like anything special, it’s more than enough to handle anything the original Nintendo Entertainment System could push out and more.

This little Linux box is darn impressive and shows that Nintendo engineers know what they are doing. Nintendo has always been a company that takes under-powered systems and pushes some amazing things from them all the way back to the NES.

The mini NES Classic Edition launches November 11th for the amazing price of $60.

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