Analogue Interactive Releases Aluminum NES

Analogue Interactive, a company that reinvents old video game hardware, has created a Nintendo Entertainment System with a 6061 aluminum housing. The NES would not use emulation to run games.

The Analogue Nt is “built around the heart and brain of the original NES,” the product page states. The use of reverse engineered hardware from the NES would eliminate the need for emulation. The console has been in development for more than a year, founder Chris Taber tells Polygon. The image output goes through an RGB interface that would provide an analog signal of “the highest possible quality”, and the housing is made of 6061 aluminum alloy, which is sturdy and is also used for iMacs, MacBooks and small aircraft. Incidentally, Apple anodizes the aluminum; it is not known whether Analogue Nt also does this.

The Analogue Nt supports four players, which probably indicates integration of the NES Four Score accessory from 1990. More details about the console will only be released by the company at a later stage. Analogue has previously made, among other things, a wooden Neo Geo. The NES should be available in Analogue’s online store by the end of March and the console may also be bundled with newly developed NES games. Whether the cartridges will have to be blown as often as before before the games start remains to be seen.