After the Speccy Vega thread I was wondering if there have been any decent retro remakes of console or computers? Quite a few have come out in recent years but to me the vast majority are junk.
Here is a list of the ones I know - feel free to add more and I'll update the list. I don't own any but my comments are below based on watching a bunch of videos on them.
Those are the first few that come to mind. I had high hopes for the C64 mini however the size and fake keyboard were a joke. It came with a reasonable amount of games (60 odd) but even though I had a C64c back in the day, I only recognise maybe 2-3 games on the list. I'm not a massive fan of NES or Sega consoles but if either of those had a good release with the vast majority of games included then I would be interested. It looks from what I gather the NES and SNES remakes are fairly decent efforts, as you would expect from Nintendo, but still few games included (20-30) unless you mod/add your own which I thought wouldn't be their target market.
Here is a list of the ones I know - feel free to add more and I'll update the list. I don't own any but my comments are below based on watching a bunch of videos on them.
- C64 Mini (Retro Games Ltd, website)
- Nintendo Classic Mini (Nintendo, website)
- SNES Classic Mini (Nintendo, website)
- Sinclair ZX Spectrum Vega Plus (Retro Computers, website)
- SuperNT (Analogue, website)
- 8BitDo Controllers (8BitDo, website)
Those are the first few that come to mind. I had high hopes for the C64 mini however the size and fake keyboard were a joke. It came with a reasonable amount of games (60 odd) but even though I had a C64c back in the day, I only recognise maybe 2-3 games on the list. I'm not a massive fan of NES or Sega consoles but if either of those had a good release with the vast majority of games included then I would be interested. It looks from what I gather the NES and SNES remakes are fairly decent efforts, as you would expect from Nintendo, but still few games included (20-30) unless you mod/add your own which I thought wouldn't be their target market.
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