{"id":113639,"date":"2016-12-29T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T07:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113639"},"modified":"2016-12-29T09:01:19","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T07:01:19","slug":"the-other-retro-consoles-we-want-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/113639-the-other-retro-consoles-we-want-to-see","title":{"rendered":"The other retro consoles we want to see"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo NES Classic has proved to be phenomenally popular, having already completely sold out several months before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>This is testament to how great of a product Nintendo has created, with the perfect match between technology and price point.<\/p>\n<p>It also points to how great the NES&#8217;s library is &#8211; which got us thinking, which other consoles could do with a retro remake?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>The SNES<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This is almost cheating because we&#8217;re certain this is the route Nintendo has already planned out.<\/p>\n<p>The SNES has arguably an even better library than the NES and could run off exactly the same hardware that powers the NES.<\/p>\n<p>It will also give Nintendo a chance to work out some of the NES Mini&#8217;s kinks, like making the controller cables slightly longer and giving us more games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/snes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113645\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/snes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/snes.jpg 840w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/snes-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/snes-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/snes-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>The PlayStation One<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The PlayStation One is just old enough to now be considered a retro console.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also notoriously difficult to emulate and would provide an awesome, legitimate way to play some classic games.<\/p>\n<p>The PSP and PS VITA already proved that older games can stand the test of time, now we just want a dedicated way to play them on our TV.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ps1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113643\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ps1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>The Gameboy (Colour\/Advance)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Smartphones have been able to play Gameboy games for years, but the emulation is still not 100% perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Having a dedicated official emulator with an HD resolution and actual buttons would be the perfect retro update.<\/p>\n<p>Being able to play all of the Pokemon games legally would probably sell millions of units alone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nintendo-gameboy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-45869 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nintendo-gameboy.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nintendo-gameboy.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nintendo-gameboy-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nintendo-gameboy-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nintendo-gameboy-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nintendo-gameboy-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nintendo-gameboy-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nintendo-gameboy-297x167.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nintendo-gameboy-530x298.jpg 530w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nintendo-gameboy-625x351.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nintendo-gameboy-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Honorable mention:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>The Sega Megadrive<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The only reason this didn&#8217;t make the cut is because it&#8217;s already available to purchase now.<\/p>\n<p>The Megadrive (or Genesis) never really took off in South Africa but it still has a stellar line up of games.<\/p>\n<p>It is also currently cheaper than the NES-mini and in-stock across the country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mega-drive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113641\" src=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mega-drive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mega-drive.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mega-drive-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mega-drive-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Mega-drive-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read: <a title=\"Permalink to Video game cover art \u2013 then and now\" href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/113201-video-game-cover-art-then-and-now.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Video game cover art \u2013 then and now<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the immense success of the Mini-NES, these are the consoles we would like to see remakes of next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":110724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[3483,7181,18929,13025],"class_list":["post-113639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-consoles","tag-gameboy","tag-next","tag-snes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113679,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113639\/revisions\/113679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}