Vintage Game Cartridge Slot Hits $59.99 As Retro Prices Soar
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- •Epilogue will begin preorders for its SN Operator USB cartridge slot on December 30th, 2025 at $59.99.
- •This device lets users play and archive original Super Nintendo and Super Famicom games on modern devices.
- •The SN Operator follows the 2021 GB Operator, and its price is $10 higher despite similar functionality.
Epilogue, the charming purveyor of twice-announced nostalgia, finally drops SN Operator preorders December 30th, 2025, at a wallet-lightening $59.99—ten dollars dearer than its GB Operator sibling launched in 2021. This USB gadget slots original Super Nintendo and Super Famicom cartridges directly into PCs, Macs, or Steam Decks like the digital oracle it never asked to be. After a leisurely year-plus parade of teasers, gamers craving past pixel perfection can archive ancient games, proving expensive nostalgia is indeed a thing. Meanwhile, they might wonder if collecting dust on outdated tech counts as a hobby or a tax on memory.
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Pay $60 to plug ancient SNES games into USB slots because digital downloads weren’t dainty or retro enough.
Why buy new when you can pay more to lovingly shove dusty cartridges into suspiciously modern USB ports?
The SN Operator: Because streaming your childhood on YouTube just doesn’t count as gaming.
Source: Theverge | Published: 12/29/2025 | Author: Andrew Liszewski
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