Turn your Apple TV into a Nintendo-ish console, without the games

The Apple TV might be shiny, black, and sleek, but it’s also a little boring. If you are not impressed with its design, you can either hide it behind a TV or wrap it in this fun elago silicone case that turns the streaming box into a retro console recalls the Super Famicom– minus the fun Nintendo games.

Unlike a skin, which requires extreme patience to painstakingly apply decals that make Apple TV look other than a black box, the Elago T4 Apple TV case looks more like soft, flexible silicone cases than it does. you place on your smartphone to protect them from shocks. and drops. (The The company really goes out of its way to avoid saying their design was inspired by the Super Famicom or any other Nintendo product, but the looks don’t lie.)

The installation process might be a bit more complex considering the thickness of the Apple TV case, but it shouldn’t leave you shaking with rage afterwards. What else does the $ 25 box do for Apple’s streaming box? Not much, really. The Apple TV power LED always shines on the front of the fake console, which is nice detail, but the functionality of the box is not going to change. And if you want your Apple TV remote to look like a matching Super Famicom controller, this is an extra $ 15 for this silicone case.

If you really want to play classic games from the Super Famicom and SNES era, you’d probably be better off using an Android TV based streaming box instead of Apple’s locked one.solution down. Yes, you can jump through some hurdles to get Apple TV to run emulators and ROMs, but it’s so much easier with competitive streaming boxes.