A500 Mini to Release in Spring 2022, Includes 25 Built-In Games

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Retro Games has confirmed the release date for the A500 Mini, a miniature-sized version of Commodore’s classic Amiga 500 home computer.



According to a promotional video shared on the official Retro Games YouTube channel yesterday, the system will be released on March 25, 2022. Pre-orders for the A500 Mini are already available for the console, which includes the original style 2-button mouse, newly engineered 8-button precision gamepad, and a price tag of $139.99.









“Introducing THEA500 Mini, a compact reimagining of the Amiga 500 home computer,” a blurb on the official site reads. “Featuring perfect emulation of not only the original A500 but also the Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) of the A1200.”



“Play one of the included 25 classic Amiga games, selected from a simple to use carousel, including all-time greats like...

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Eh maybe if it's less than a hundy and I can load my own games onto it. Yeah yeah I know about UAE but this thing looks cute, too bad the keyboard isn't real.

 

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Necro post a year later... got one for xmas. Nostalgia really paints a pretty picture in our head, but playing some of these games from late 80's / early 90's... not even as good as Genesis games. The included games are mostly trash except for Another World and Zool.

I did find this though.... https://www.aminimiga.com/ let you get to workbench and has a ton of game + demo roms... but the games I remember fondly from my youth are terrible now. Defender of the Crown was one of my C64 favorites, the Amiga version looks like ***. Archon... etc.

I found some youtube videos for this Pandory thing https://github.com/emuchicken/pandory-a500/releases which adds other emulators but doesn't come with roms. We are left to hunt for those on our own.

I dunno... this one might be going back. I have a Pi 2 and 3 with retropie for arcade stuff, I don't really need another emulation box....

It is really **** cute though.