6 more consoles we want NES Mini style versions of

The NES Mini is almost here. This is a teeny tiny games console, capable of playing 30 stone-cold 8 bit classics from yesteryear.

And the best bit is that it looks like an NES that someone left in the wash. It's the cutest thing since puppies and kittens.

And it got us thinking - what other consoles should get a mini version? What other classic game machines would be like to see shrunk down, loaded up with 30-odd games, and plugged into our HD tellies?

Here are six suggestions. Leave yours in the comments below.

If the NES Mini is a success, a tiny version of the best games console ever made should definitely be on the cards.

The Super NES cemented Nintendo's reputation as one of the best game developers in the world with games like Super Mario World and Super Metroid.

And this was when third-parties loved Nintendo so Square Enix brought games like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy III exclusively to SNES, and the best Mega Man and Castlevania games were on SNES.

Nintendo will have to make two versions - one for the US and one for Europe and Japan. Or it could just pretend that the blocky, purple mess never happened and give America a little treat.

The Dreamcast might have flopped back in the day, but fans have never been able to say goodbye. And with a line-up of games this good, who could blame them?

The Dreamcast gave us the incredibly immersive world of Shenmue, the stylish graffiti 'em up Jet Set Radio, and the trippy mind hump Rez. And probably a few games not made by Sega, too.

A mini Dreamcast would be a technical challenge, to say the least. Try emulating Dreamcast games on a chip you can sell for 50 bucks. So we might have to wait a few years before finding this under the Christmas tree.

You gotta give Sony some credit. It was the new kid on the scene, attempting to disrupt a market that Nintendo and Sega had dominated for decades. And it frigging crushed it.

The PS1 made gaming mainstream and cool. Games like Wipeout, Tomb Raider, and Metal Gear made games look grown-up, and sometimes quite cinematic.

And behind the bombast of Final Fantasy 7 and Resident Evil, there's a rich vein of niche but beloved games like Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Vagrant Story, Parasite Eve, and PaRappa the Rapper.

It would need to come with a couple controllers for multiplayer Tekken, FIFA, and HORSE mode in Tony Hawk's 2, of course.

All of these retro console throwbacks and plug 'n' play devices have, so far, emulated home consoles. But what about our favourite handhelds?

Well, imagine a Game Boy that was so small, you could fit it in your wallet. Or one of those iPhone cases that looks like a Game Boy... but actually was a Game Boy. You'd never be bored again.

This teeny tiny device would need to play everything from Mario to Pokemon, and from Zelda to Metroid 2. The real test, though, would be sealing the rights to publish Tetris on this thing.

Okay, we're out in the weeds now. But hear us out.

Thanks to DosBox, Good Old Games, and other junk it's easier than ever to play classic PC games like Doom, Monkey Island, and System Shock.

But wouldn't it be cool to have a dedicated box, filled with favourite floppy disks from yesteryear? Plug it into your monitor or your TV, plug in a keyboard and mouse, and get sucked into Diablo 2.

I really haven't thought this through but I'm running out of consoles so cut me some slack

Oh! Here's one. These consoles typically play into our nostalgia for consoles we used to play. But how about one that lets us finally play a console we could never afford back then?

The Neo Geo AES, with its ridiculously big cartridges and arcade stick controller, cost around a trillion dollars if I remember rightly, but its ability to play arcade games, perfectly made it oh-so desirable.

Getting a tiny AES, filled to the brim with fighting games, space shooters, and Metal Slug, would make up for months of pining over this thing in magazines and import shop windows.