If you missed out on the lottery that was the EB Games sale and elsewhere, here's another chance to get one before Christmas.

When EB Games took pre-orders for the Nintendo Mini NES Classic earlier this week, the website crashed under the sheer volume of traffic from eager buyers. This happened two days in a row, leaving a mob of angry customers in its wake. With all the hype around the classic console, you'd think EB Games would have expected the level of traffic to its online store and worked to ensure its website was reliable. We take a look at where EB Games might have gone wrong and what businesses can learn from this debacle.

Trying to buy the Nintendo Classic Mini NES from EB Games this week has, to put it mildly, a nightmare. And earlier this afternoon, EB Games published a statement outlining precisely why.

After being completely bombarded by customers desperate to pre-order a Mini NES, EB Games has given up the ghost.

Its site is in a bad way, and it wants to do this all over again tomorrow.

If you missed out on the first round of pre-orders for the Mini NES, then today's another chance to jump on the classic Nintendo train.