Behold the Nintendo SwitchCube!

Behold the Nintendo SwitchCube!

Be it official or fan-made, we see a lot of new consoles dressed up as old ones, combining our desire for new hardware with the nostalgia for tried-and-true favorites. Nintendo is the biggest offender here, painting Game Boys like Famicoms and the 3DS like an NES, along with dozens of character-specific flavors of their hardware over the years.

But what I remember seeing far less of are old consoles made to mimic their successors. That’s what caught my eye about this custom painted GameCube that does an admirable job of looking like a Nintendo Switch. It’s only slightly less portable than an actual Switch and with a small upgrade it can play all of your Game Boy Advance carts too. That’s better than a Virtual Console right? Bonus points, the guy who posted this to Craigslist is right here in Indiana!

Now I want to see other retroactive mashups: a Genesis colored like a Dreamcast, an original PlayStation with the black and blue tones of a PS4, and a Game Boy in the gray and purple colors of a SNES.

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