That a home game console might accurately reproduce an arcade game experience became credible toward the tail end of the second generation of those devices (ColecoVision, Atari 5200) and picked up significant steam when Nintendo entered the market. But SNK’s Neo-Geo Advanced Entertainment System broke ground by running essentially the same code on the same hardware found in arcade machines. In fact, a variant of the hardware was designed for public coin-op play. However, the exorbitant price of the device and the games themselves were far beyond what most home users could afford, and the Japanese genre-skewed game library (weighed heavily toward fighting games) made it a niche status symbol in the U.S.
The 2026 remake from Plaion Replai is shaping up to be an excellent full-sized recreation that uses ASICs to create a better gaming experience than emulation and promises build quality worthy of the original gaming experience. The retro remake specialists has scored big points with its full-size recreations of the Spectrum ZX and Intellivision although it has had to delay recent products such as the The Spectrum Collectors Edition (which ships with a thermal printer), and The A1200, its generically branded Amiga follow-up to The C64 Maxi. With Atari registering a trademark for 800XL, a popular model from the brand’s 8-bit era, and independent hardware developer Dennis Shaw announcing completion of the MiniST (a modern recreation of an Atari ST-series 16-bit computer), few retro home computers and game consoles are being passed over for a 21st Century revival.