Tokyo / 04.28.2020 10:14:05
Keeping children at home during the state of alarm thanks to old game consoles is the commitment of the Japanese association of the retro video game, which will distribute devices SuperNES of Nintendo to families that request it. “Notice of delivery of emergency product,” writes the association on its website, where it announces that it will send its video consoles to 100 homes with children under the age of 16, during the state of alarm decreed until May 6 in the archipelago to contain the covid-19 pandemic.
“Many children stay home from the pandemic and we want them to have fun with games that made their parents’ generation addicted,” the association explains.
How will the distribution be?
The video game console will be delivered, after a draw made among those registered, with a cable, an adapter, a controller and two of the mythical games of the historic Nintendo SuperNES, Donkey Kong Country and Final Fantasy 6.
The association states that these are restored second-hand objects. They have also been cleaned and disinfected as much as possible.
Interested families have until the end of the week to make a request by mail.
Put up for sale in 1990 in Japan, in 1991 in United States and in 1992 in Europe, the SuperNES It was the best-selling video game console of the 1990s with nearly 50 million copies in the world, until its production stopped in the early 2000s.
Today it is considered a cult object and Nintendo reproduced it at the end of 2017, with the name SuperNES Mini.
Sega and Sony also entered the ‘retro gaming’ market in the last two years, releasing “mini” versions of Megadrive and the first PlayStation, respectively.
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