Send this to the ’90s with Mario’s time machine
As numb as I’ve become to the status quo of the video game console landscape, some once-heretical sights still shove me back into the heatedconsole warsof the 1990s.
We’ve had plenty of time to let the idea of an official Sega Genesis controller for Nintendo Switch simmer, but it’s not until this exact moment — after seeing the back of the gamepad via a photo fromSEGAbits— that the gravity of this situation has fully sunk in.
This new (optional) controller for playing Sega Genesis games on Nintendo Switch has an interesting pair of logos on its back. Enhance:
— SEGAbits.com 💥 SEGA News (@SEGAbits)June 07, 2025
To players of a certain age who lived through the fiery ’90s magazine ads, commercials, and brand-defending schoolyard arguments, the novelty of seeing the Nintendo and Sega logos side-by-side on a legitimate Sega Genesis controller should be pretty potent.
This is up there with one of my favorite “wait, what?” gaming headlines:Nintendo’s white PlayStation 4 debuts. (To say nothing of the actually realNintendo PlayStation.)
