Game on: Japan group offers retro consoles to cooped-up kids


A Nintendo Super Famicom, a 1990s era 16-bit console that was marketed outside Japan as the Super NES (Nintendo Entertainment System), running the hit Capcom beat 'em up game Street Fighter II on a cathode ray tube television. A group of Japanese retro video game enthusiasts are hoping that lockdown-induced boredom will convert today's teens into fans of yesteryear's games, offering 100 classic Nintendo consoles to cooped-up kids. — AFP

TOKYO: A group of Japanese retro video game enthusiasts is hoping that lockdown-induced boredom will convert today's children into fans of yesteryear's games, offering 100 classic Nintendo consoles.

"A notice of emergency goods supply," the non-profit Japan Retro Game Association said in a message on its website, announcing it would send Super Nintendo consoles to 100 households with children under the age of 16.

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