Company wants to release small ‘PC Classic’ with DOS games

Which is better, a console or a PC? That battle, which has been going on for years, may soon break loose between the mini consoles and the mini PC. An American company wants to release the PC Classic, as a counterpart to the mini consoles of Nintendo and Sony, among others.

Unit-e says it wants to make the PC Classic and provide at least thirty classic DOS games from the 1980s and 1990s. The company plans to arrange licensing for those games. Before the mini PC goes into production, Unit-e wants to raise money through crowdfunding. A campaign for that would start in late November or early December. The creator says that the product will be on the market in the summer of 2019 and the goal is for the price to be 99 dollars.

It should also be possible to add more games for a fee. Unit-e does not seem to have obtained any licenses for games yet, because the company does not mention concrete names of games. In a demo of a prototype, the company uses shareware. The goal is to bring games to the PC Classic that defined the ‘PC gaming experience’.

The plan is to configure the games for use with a joystick or gamepad, but keyboard and mouse control should also be possible. The goal is to supply a gamepad with the small PC, but the inventor also hopes to be able to supply a mini keyboard and mouse. The company also wants to sell optional peripherals.

Unit-e is originally a development studio. The company created the Neon FM arcade game, which is also available on Android. For that game, Unit-e negotiated licenses for 150 songs. The company says it will use that experience when negotiating the licenses for the DOS games. Unit-e also says it has already worked with companies such as Apogee, Sega, Namco and Andramiro.