The hottest gift for this past holiday season was the NES Classic Edition. And if you’re like most people, you didn’t receive or give one. The ability to play old Nintendo system games on a retro-looking device — taking adults back to their childhoods — led to the unit being sold out in many places. It was tough to find NES Classic at a reasonable price, as those who had units jacked up the cost. Supply and demand, after all.

Now that the holiday rush is over though, finding the NES Classic Edition in stock is a possibility again. So if you still want this throwback video game console as a gift for you or someone else, here’s your chance. (After all, there’s never a bad time of year to give or receive a gift, right?) We’ve collected more than a dozen options to help you find the NES Classic Edition.

Shopping Tracker

If you want to purchase the device at a local brick and mortar store — and you don’t want to drive around town all day or make several phone calls to find the unit in stock — a shopping tracker can give you a clue as to when local stores have received a shipment of the NES Classic consoles.

Of the tracker options we researched, BrickSeek seemed to do the best job with finding NES Classic at the largest variety of brick and mortar stores. You will have to enter your local information, but the service can give you alerts when new units become available.

A Dozen Online Options

You also can check online stores for the NES Classic Edition console. As you’ll see once you start clicking on the links below, it still can be tough to find a console near the unit’s MSRP of $59.99. But prices are starting to drop since the holidays, so you shouldn’t have to pay more than triple the MSRP as you did in December.

The price listed with each link is the cheapest price found at the time of this writing. But check the links as prices and inventory will change.

• Amazon: $128.98
• Best Buy: Out of stock
• ChunkToys: $189.99
• eBay: Varying prices with auction format
• GameStop: Out of stock
• Google Shopping: Varying prices from multiple sellers
• Jet: $149.50
• Newegg: $210.95
• Player’s Choice: $189.99
• Target: NES Classic is not sold at Target.com, but you can use the link to check the inventory at your local stores.
• Toys R Us: Out of stock
• Walmart: $160.80

Don’t give up on your NES Classic Edition dream! It’ll take some work to find a unit in stock at a great price, but if you have some persistence, you’ll be using Bo Jackson to run through Tecmo Bowl defenses in no time.

Where Can I Find the NES Classic in stock?

While home game consoles get the lion’s share of the spotlight, handheld gaming has been around for a while now with a few ups and many downs. Its biggest challenge to date has come in the form of smartphones, which have now completely cornered the portable gaming market.

The most recent high-profile handheld game console, the Sony PlayStation Vita, was released in early 2012 and has really struggled to find an audience.

With the latest handheld gaming device, the NVIDIA Shield, set to release next month, we take a look back at handheld game consoles through the years.

1979: Milton Bradley Microvision

The first handheld gaming console as we know it, with interchangeable game cartridges. Not exactly a world-beater in its day—13 total games over 3 years, screen rot and 16 x 16 resolution didn’t exactly help things.

1989: Nintendo Game Boy

When we think of modern handheld gaming, the words “Game Boy” come to mind. Once again, Nintendo revived a flagging or non-existent industry with an über-successful product. A little game by the name of Tetris helped this modest 8-bit monochrome device set records.

1989: Atari Lynx

Despite it being the first color handheld and the first to have online networking (ComLynx), the 16-bit Lynx could not compete with the runaway success of the Game Boy or competitive offerings from Sega and NEC (see below). However, independent developers continued to make games for the Lynx years after its demise.

 1990: NEC TurboExpress

While its battery life was weak, the TurboExpress was the most powerful handheld of its day and could play games directly from the TurboGrafx-16. Unfortunately for NEC, nobody cared.

1991: Sega Game Gear

With 11 million units sold, the Game Gear was the most successful handheld outside of the Game Boy for its time. Even though it only had an 8-bit processor, the Game Gear had a fairly long life due to the popularity of its titles like Sonic the Hedgehog.

1998: Nintendo Game Boy Color

Years after the release of the original Game Boy, Nintendo released the official followup called simply Game Boy Color. In addition to the color screen, the sequel was twice as fast and could play the old Game Boy games. Nintendo has sold  almost 120 million Game Boy and Game Boy Color handhelds combined, a number which would only be surpassed years later by the Nintendo DS.

1999: SNK Neo Geo Pocket Color

Pretty much forgotten in an era when Nintendo dominated handheld gaming, the 16-bit NGPC carved out a small but brief niche in the market with a wide release in major American retailers.

What’s Next? Handheld Game Consoles Through the Years

Video game sales accounted for nearly $15 billion in the U.S. last year. In 2012, the U.S. box office sold about $11 billion worth of tickets, the home video industry made about $18 billion and the publishing and music industry each brought in $7 billion.

Four decades of mainstream gaming have turned the video game industry into a major player in the entertainment business. With last year’s release of Nintendo’s next-gen console Wii U, the February announcement of this fall’s Sony PlayStation 4 and the expected unveiling of Microsoft’s “Xbox 720” this coming Tuesday, May 21st, the video game industry is ready to take another leap into cultural dominance.

Let’s take a look back at some of the most popular home video game consoles of the past 35+ years, starting with one of the most famous and beloved consoles of any generation, the Atari 2600.

1977: Atari 2600

Not the first video game console—the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey was the first—but the Atari 2600 was certainly the one that started the modern age of video games.

1978: Magnavox Odyssey 2

The successor to the original video game console had no third-party games but still sold over a million consoles.

1979: Mattel Intellivision

It never could get out of the shadows of the Atari 2600, but with unique add-ons like Intellivoice, the speech synthesizer, the Intellivision still has many fans to this day.

1982: ColecoVision

It had better graphics than the Atari 2600 and Intellivision, and it included the arcade smash Donkey Kong. But there was also a depressing Smurfs game.

1982: Atari 5200

The inevitable sequel to the legendary 2600, the 5200 would eventually fall victim to the video game crash of 1983, but had an analog joystick with a numeric keypad and pause button.

1982: Intellivision II

Yeah… sneaky name since it was the same exact thing as the Intellivision, only smaller.

What’s Next? Video Game Consoles Through the Years