The Amiga 500 is getting a miniature console makeover

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Commodore's classic Amiga 500 data processor is acquiring an itty-itsy-bitsy console remake.

Retroactive Games—the brain behind the Commodore 64 Mini—has created the A500 Miniskirt, due to hit shelves in early 2022. It'll set you support around $139.99 / £119.99 and comes with a nice remake of the 2-push button mouse and an 8-button gamepad. While the console has a decorative keyboard, you'll need to spark plug in one of your personal for actual functionality.

The A500 Mini comes pre-loaded with 25 games like Worms, Another World and Simon the Sorcerer, only you can also pop a USB flash cause in and laden your own ROMs. Full WHDLoad put up is included too, as well every bit classic emulation save states.

Only 12 of the 25 games have actually been announced so distant, but here's the current list:

Alienate Stock 3D
Another World
ATR: All Terrain Racing
Battle Chess
Cadaver
Kick Unsatisfactory 2
Pinball Dreams
Herbert A. Simon the Sorcerer
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe
The Chaos Engine
Worms: The Director's Cut
Zool: Ninja of the "Nth" Attribute

Is it all a bit of a novelty? Arguably yes, merely there's something endearing most having a dedicated device to play old games happening, even if it is just the same emulator you'd be using on your bog-standard PC. Our own Andy Kelly built his own miniature PC for old soothe games early this year, enjoying the process and so much that he distributed how to do it yourself.

A fresh author in the industry, Molly has been taken low-level Microcomputer Gamer's RGB-ladened wing, fashioning convinced she doesn't get up to too much mischief on the site. She's not quite sure what a Command & Conquer is, but she fundament rattle on for hours about every last the obscure rhythm games and strange MMOs from the 2000s. She's been cooking up all manner of news, previews and features while she's been here, merely peculiarly enjoys when she gets to write about Final Fantasy, Character, The Sims, and whatever different mettlesome she's currently hopelessly fixated on. There's a good unplanned she's boring some other PC Gamer writer about her latest obsession as we speak.