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Ask HN: Any possible current equivalent experience to NES/SNES?
Is there any current console or similar (not emulation-- native games) for 6-12 year olds (or in that range) that might capture some of the old school goodness/experience that NES/SNES generated?
Looking for something for the kid, but wanted to keep it old school because I think those kinds of games are better (think Super Meat Boy etc), and selfishly, I may also want to take part, and that makes it more fun anyway.
- IvyMike 8y agoIt is emulation, but I recently built a Picade and packed it full of arcade roms. It has been a ton of fun. https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picade https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picade
- argimenes 8y agoHow about a Nintendo Switch?
- indigodaddy 8y agoThat looks pretty awesome! Do you find the 8" screen of sufficient size?
- IvyMike 8y agoIt is. The screen although small is bright and sharp. Bigger could be nice, but it's cute this way. The other thing is that the feel of the whole thing is just right--clicky joystick, real arcade buttons. There are cheaper ways to make something like this, but if you want that authentic experience, this is probably what you would end up paying. The other cool learning experience here is that it's running linux under the hood. So you can ssh into it, you scp files into place, and you can run any linux things you want on it--you can make it into a pihole or a media server, etc. Lots of little learning experiences for your kids here. Add a bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and you can use it as a laptop.