Apple TV can be shiny, black and elegant, but it’s also a little boring. If you’re not impressed by its design, you can hide it behind a TV or wrap it up in this fun Elago silicone case that turns the streaming box into a retro console reminiscent of the Super Famicom– minus any fun Nintendo game.
Unlike a skin, which requires extreme patience to painstakingly apply decals that make Apple TV look anything other than a black box, the Elago T4 cover for Apple TV is more like the soft, flexible silicone covers you put on on your smartphone to protect them from shocks and drops. (O the company really does its best to avoid saying that its design was inspired by the Super Famicom or any Nintendo product, but looks don’t lie.)
The installation process can be a bit more complicated, given the thickness of the Apple TV box, but you shouldn’t leave him shaking with rage afterwards. What else does the $ 25 box do for Apple’s streaming box? Not really, really. The Apple TV’s power LED still glows in front of the fake console, that is a good detail, but the box’s functionality will not change. And if you want your Apple TV remote to look like a compatible Super Famicom controller, that’s an extra $ 15 for that silicone case.
If you really want to play classic games from the Super Famicom and SNES era, you’re probably better off going with an Android TV-based streaming box instead of blocked from Applesolution down. Yes, you can skip some obstacles to make Apple TV run emulators and ROMs, but it is much easier with competing streaming boxes.
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