Nintendo doubles down on nostalgia with the $60 mini NES Classic Edition console

Nintendo has been laughing all the way to the bank this past week with the runaway success of the Pokémon Go augmented reality mobile app, but the Japanese gaming giant isn’t done cashing in on nostalgia quite yet.

The company has just announced a version of its classic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console from the early 1980s, fittingly titled the NES Classic Edition. We’ve seen a wave of nostalgia across the gaming realm in recent times, and today’s news comes a few months after Sinclair ZX Spectrum announced plans to target retro fans with a new handheld console. Indeed, retro gaming is more than a fad — it’s a growing market, with publishers increasingly releasing collections and remasters of older classic.