You can play them forever without paying, or you can spend a one-off fee of £1.99 to ditch the ads, which appear on the start screen, the save screen, and I think at launch, but will not interrupt play in anyway. These games will be free, and surprisingly lightly monetised.

A few weeks back I went to London to hear about Sega Forever, an initiative that will see Sega releasing a load of its classic games onto mobile platforms - iOS and Android - over the course of a few years. That's a pretty grand ambition, and it's attached to a project that feels fairly grand when viewed in the right light. 'We're about to do the same with retro gaming on mobile.' 'Cassette tapes changed music forever,' reads the accompanying note. I don't even have a CD player these days. But here's the point, of course: I can't play this cassette tape. All told, it's as good an authentic imitation sentiment as I've received in the post. I particularly liked the odd crossing-out on the tracklisting. Aside from the hashtag at the bottom, it's a nice piece of work. Space Harrier - Theme, Outrun - Magical Sound Shower.

Printing on the side to look like Biro, a highlighter pen swipe across the spine label that reads, SEGA FOREVER Vol 1.

How to do your history justice? Or, as I suspect Sega might put it, how to make the most of one of the greatest back catalogues in all of gaming? A few days back, a cassette tape arrived for me at Eurogamer's office. So it's fascinating to see Sega considering some of the same problems that Nintendo's been navigating.

This is how Nintendo curates its own history when it's really paying attention to it. The NES Mini, though: that shrunken grey brick, that gloriously boxy controller attached. Yes, Nintendo might have released a ROM for Super Mario that it nicked off the internet, but the Virtual Console has never felt like the company at its most thoughtful. Could there be a more perfect example of Nintendo's philosophy than the NES Mini? To Nintendo, video games exist somewhere inside the relationship between hardware and software, so even if you're offering a bunch of emulated classics, you should make sure the box that they come is fit for purpose.

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