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The A500 Mini is on the way. From the makers of the C64 Mini, it’s a retro console that emulates the ancient home computer and allows you to play Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 games. It’s coming in early 2022, and there’s a trailer and preliminary games list below.THEA500 Mini (English)Watch on YouTubeThe final roster will include 25 games, but only 12 are confirmed so far. Those are:Alien Breed 3DAnother WorldATR: All Terrain RacingBattle ChessCadaverKick Off 2Pinball DreamsSimon The SorcererSpeedball 2: Brutal DeluxeThe Chaos EngineWorms: The Director’s CutZool: Ninja Of The Nth DimensionThemini console’s siteoffers a handful of technical details. You’ll be able to save and resume, add your own games, use a USB keyboard, and it can output at 720p with different scaling options. It’s standard stuff.One of my brothers got an Amiga 500 as a Christmas or birthday present sometime around 1990, and it probably had more influence on my life than any other single object. The strength of it as a machine was that its game library contained a little of everything: the fighting and racing games and platformers you’d associate with contemporary consoles like the SNES, but also strategy games, management games, point-and-click adventures.It’s therefore a hard computer to do justice to with just 25 games, and the selection above doesn’t immediately give me hope.Alien Breed3D’s pivot to first-person feels like a overreach, Kick Off 2 pales in comparison to Sensible Socceer, and I’d rather Overdrive or Skidmarks to ATR: All Terrain Racing. Pinball Dreams,The Chaos Engineand Speedball 2 are all bangers, though.If they put Superfrog on there, I riot.
The A500 Mini is on the way. From the makers of the C64 Mini, it’s a retro console that emulates the ancient home computer and allows you to play Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 games. It’s coming in early 2022, and there’s a trailer and preliminary games list below.THEA500 Mini (English)Watch on YouTubeThe final roster will include 25 games, but only 12 are confirmed so far. Those are:Alien Breed 3DAnother WorldATR: All Terrain RacingBattle ChessCadaverKick Off 2Pinball DreamsSimon The SorcererSpeedball 2: Brutal DeluxeThe Chaos EngineWorms: The Director’s CutZool: Ninja Of The Nth DimensionThemini console’s siteoffers a handful of technical details. You’ll be able to save and resume, add your own games, use a USB keyboard, and it can output at 720p with different scaling options. It’s standard stuff.One of my brothers got an Amiga 500 as a Christmas or birthday present sometime around 1990, and it probably had more influence on my life than any other single object. The strength of it as a machine was that its game library contained a little of everything: the fighting and racing games and platformers you’d associate with contemporary consoles like the SNES, but also strategy games, management games, point-and-click adventures.It’s therefore a hard computer to do justice to with just 25 games, and the selection above doesn’t immediately give me hope.Alien Breed3D’s pivot to first-person feels like a overreach, Kick Off 2 pales in comparison to Sensible Socceer, and I’d rather Overdrive or Skidmarks to ATR: All Terrain Racing. Pinball Dreams,The Chaos Engineand Speedball 2 are all bangers, though.If they put Superfrog on there, I riot.
The A500 Mini is on the way. From the makers of the C64 Mini, it’s a retro console that emulates the ancient home computer and allows you to play Amiga 500, 600 and 1200 games. It’s coming in early 2022, and there’s a trailer and preliminary games list below.
THEA500 Mini (English)Watch on YouTube
THEA500 Mini (English)
The final roster will include 25 games, but only 12 are confirmed so far. Those are:
Themini console’s siteoffers a handful of technical details. You’ll be able to save and resume, add your own games, use a USB keyboard, and it can output at 720p with different scaling options. It’s standard stuff.
One of my brothers got an Amiga 500 as a Christmas or birthday present sometime around 1990, and it probably had more influence on my life than any other single object. The strength of it as a machine was that its game library contained a little of everything: the fighting and racing games and platformers you’d associate with contemporary consoles like the SNES, but also strategy games, management games, point-and-click adventures.
It’s therefore a hard computer to do justice to with just 25 games, and the selection above doesn’t immediately give me hope.Alien Breed3D’s pivot to first-person feels like a overreach, Kick Off 2 pales in comparison to Sensible Socceer, and I’d rather Overdrive or Skidmarks to ATR: All Terrain Racing. Pinball Dreams,The Chaos Engineand Speedball 2 are all bangers, though.
If they put Superfrog on there, I riot.
