Lately, my 5-year-old son has been taking an interest in playing some video games, and started to enjoy some games. He's more interested in platformer games. He seems to like the classics like Sonic and Mario.

We have an Amazon FireTV stick, and there are a few games we can play with the Amazon remote, but the one that be my son and I are interested in playing require an Amazon game controller, and it doesn't look like they'll be making more anytime soon. :(

I thought about getting an Ouya, but it seems like they are no longer in production. It looks like I can buy one from Amazon for about US$100 or US$150, but I'm not sure if they will have Sonic or Mario.

I have heard of a TV stick with Android on them, and I hope it will have Google Play on it. I suppose I would need to get a wireless controller for it, though.

What are your thoughts and recomnendations? Something that I can easily to download (or purchase a license at most) games to it, but works with actual hardware controller (the virtual controls on a touch screen are driving me up the wall!) I would like to prefer an Android with Google Play access so that I can get Magic DOSBox on it to play some DOS games, and to play some of the more retro games that had been ported to Android.

-jag
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Hi Jagossel!

27 Apr 2019 10:55, from Jagossel -> All:

I thought about getting an Ouya, but it seems like they are no longer
in production. It looks like I can buy one from Amazon for about
US$100 or US$150, but I'm not sure if they will have Sonic or Mario.

I would not buy an Ouya in 2019.
Buy some Android device with Bluetooth capabilities.

CU, Ricsi

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If you are not afraid to get your hands dirty, a fun project you could do
with your kid is build a Retro Pi system. It's a pretty straight forward way
to create a emulation system for old platformers with a raspberry pi3. There are a ton of custom cases, and controllers you can set up.

go to retropie.org.uk :)

Peter James
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If you have steam on your computer, and you own an xbox controller or a playstation controller, you can either buy or download a collection that has the game you want or just download a rom. After that, put the add that
program to steam, and then you can configure your controller to work with it. Then you and your son can play those games. Easiest way (in my opinion) is
just buy an NES or a Genesis, although that may be expensive or finiky.

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