THERE’S BEEN A RESURGENCE in retro gaming lately. The C64 and NES (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 $265 (that’s relatively more than the original’s RRP). This was followed by the Amiga A500 Mini at the start of 2022 (RRP $130).
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 license to run these retro ROMs and disk images legally. Nintendo, in particular, will strike. They might sue us for saying that, so we won’t mention their name again.
