AT Games Sega Classic console flawed response to NES Classic – report

If you haven’t heard the news by now, Nintendo is tapping into the classic gamer market and re-releasing a cute version of their Nintendo Entertainment System called the NES Classic Edition, a miniature version of their NES console with HDMI support and 30 pre-selected games from their legendary library of games.

That kind of nostalgia taps into a time when games were made in pure 8-bit glory, when there were no memory cards or hard disks to save a player’s progress, just a passcode or the number of lives you have left to finish the game with.

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Following this wave of sentimentality and trying to buy into another legendary publisher’s past, China-based manufacturer AT Games has released a Sega Classic Game Console based on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive 16-bit system that Sega developed and manufactured back in 1988.

The system was one of the best-selling consoles of its time, and was pitted against Nintendo’s Super Nintendo system that led to the infamous “Console Wars” of the 90’s, with both vying for attention from consumers in the market.

Despite being repackaged as a new release with the “Sonic 25th Anniversary” seal in its box art, this Sega Classic Game Console isn’t anything new, reports Polygon.com. It’s actually a repackaged re-release of ATGames’ previous releases of the Sega Classic Game Console. With 80 games installed into it, the system also allows old Genesis/ Mega Drive cartridges to be played and used with a controlled designed like a classic Genesis game pad.

Unfortunately, that’s where the comparisons end, as ATGames attempt to modernize a classic. The Sega Classic Game Console does not support HDMI, so that means input latency is going to lag and the visuals will not look clear on new television sets of this generation. Sound also doesn’t translate well, and you’re left with a system that appears half-baked and flawed, as seen in this video.

 — BM, GMA News