Analogue, the company behind the terminally out-of-stock Analogue Pocket and Analogue 3D, is trying to draw you back to 1991… again. Its new Super Nt+ and Mega Sg+ play original Super Nintendo and Genesis cartridges natively, all while scaling them to a more modern screen resolution.

The new $220 miniature consoles are both a redux of the previous Super Nt and Mega Sg first launched in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Both devices were left to languish over the last few years without a meaningful update. Now, eight years later, the Super Nt+ and Mega Sg+ add a few quality-of-life improvements. Chief among them is the inclusion of a built-in 2.4GHz receiver that Analogue claims is compatible with several 8BitDo controllers and arcade sticks (such as the SN30 or M30 SNES and Genesis recreation controller), alongside Bluetooth compatibility. Of course, both still have two ports apiece for plugging in your ancient gamepads.

If you were hoping for even more compatibility, there’s a USB-C and USB-A port in the rear of both consoles. While you could use these ports to plug in more wired controllers, Analogue suggests you can plug in a DAC (digital-to-analogue converter) for video output or for headphones and speakers. The cables mean you can power each console with a typical USB cable, which may save you extra space on your already-crowded power strip.

Each console is running an FPGA chip, specifically the Altera Cyclone V. That acronym stands for field programmable gate array. These processors attempt to recreate the chip logic of the original device, meaning you can play your games natively without running any software emulation.

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