BACK TO LIFE

in its original Japanese form, and the classic RPG Ys I & II.

And while this is all very exciting news, there’s still a couple of miniature heroes I’d like to see sat back under my telly...

sadly Sega’s final console, was such a commercial flop the company pretty much gave up on hardware. But the thing is, the Dreamcast was simply the best thing about gaming in the early 2000s.

With launch titles like Sonic Adventure, Soul Calibur, and Power Stone, it should have hit the ground running. But with EA’s reluctance to release games on it, other developers followed suit.

Starting life in Japan in 1998, the Dreamcast was officially discontinued on March 31, 2001. In total, 9.13 million Dreamcast consoles were sold worldwide – its star burnt bright for a very short time.

But the release of a Dreamcast mini could be redemption for the console.

Among the titles that could be bundled with it should be Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Virtual Tennis, REZ, Unreal Tournament, Resident Evil: Code Veronica, and Sega Rally Championship 2.

While Nintendo is on a run of issuing mini consoles, how about a Classic 64? Quite apart from the fact I loved the game cartridges, the was responsible for me losing an entire Bank holiday weekend to Goldeneye.

The first Nintendo console that had any real competition, the N64 held its own in the mid-90s against Sega’s Mega Drive and Sony’s new PlayStation.

A wishlist of games to appear on a theoretical mini console would be Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, 1080° Snowboarding, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Super Mario 64, and Banjo-Kazooie.

Is there anything I’ve missed? Any glaring oversights for consoles that should be resurrected? Email cheryl. mullin@reachplc.com, or tweet me: @cezmullin.