There’s been a resurgence in retro gaming lately. The C64 and NES (originally launched in 1982 and 1983, respectively) both saw mini editions launched back in 2018 and both enjoyed plentiful sales. A SNES edition appeared last year too, priced rather steeply at £239 (more than the original’s RRP, not considering inflation). This was followed by the Amiga A500 Mini at the start of 2022 (RRP £120).
All of the above are just open source emulators running on commodity hardware in a designer shell, so you might think the prices are a little overboard. What you’re paying for though, mostly, is the licence to run these retro ROMs and disk images legally. Nintendo in particular will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger if it catches you distributing any of its intellectual property. Just
