{"id":217007,"date":"2026-02-24T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T18:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/5-clever-uses-for-your-old-gaming-consoles\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T14:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:35:07","slug":"5-clever-uses-for-your-old-gaming-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/5-clever-uses-for-your-old-gaming-consoles\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Clever Uses For Your Old Gaming Consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2106978\/uses-for-your-old-gaming-consoles\/\">5 Clever Uses For Your Old Gaming Consoles<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2106978\/uses-for-your-old-gaming-consoles\/\">https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2106978\/uses-for-your-old-gaming-consoles\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-24 13:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bgr.com\">www.bgr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Brandon Alms\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Even though old Atari devices are better-known, the Magnavox Odyssey of 1972 was the first ever video game console. It could only display four dots and had no audio, but it opened Pandora&#8217;s gaming box \u2014 nine generations of consoles, that inexplicable feeling of holding the sweet new device, and a lifetime&#8217;s worth of treasured memories for gamers. Of course, a new generation of consoles can leave old ones in limbo. If you couldn&#8217;t make the choice to toss them, and you are still holding onto old gaming consoles, you may be surprised by the kind of creative stuff you can do with them.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Game consoles are designed with a &#8220;fixed specs&#8221; ideology. On one hand, this means better optimized games with no need to tweak the settings. On the other hand, this means that, unlike a PC that can be upgraded, gaming consoles have a sort of expiry date. However, no one says you can&#8217;t mess around with the software, right? If it cannot game anymore, you can\u00a0make use of entertainment features and third-party modifications. Retro emulation, user-made apps, media centers, and remote connectivity are but some of the options \u2014 here are some options you can try.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">Experiment with Linux distros on a PlayStation 4<\/h2>\n<p>                &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2106978\/uses-for-your-old-gaming-consoles\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 Clever Uses For Your Old Gaming Consoles https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2106978\/uses-for-your-old-gaming-consoles\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-24 13:47:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/img\/gallery\/5-clever-uses-for-your-old-gaming-consoles\/l-intro-1771757647.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-217007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217009,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217007\/revisions\/217009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}