Ive just re-pre-ordered.
Fuck it. 

I haven't gone in for any of these mini consoles but the Amiga is particularly nostalgic for me and emulation through other methods is tricky.

Was never an Amiga owner nor ever experienced any games on it.

Was it the platform of choice for the Bitmap Bros? Love their work. Gods and Chaos Engine are two entries in my greatest 100 list , albeit experienced as SNES ports.

edit: just checked the game list - Chaos Engine there and Pinball Dreams was supposed to be good - what's the opinion on that games list?

Games list is fine but has clear omissions. 
I think its the case that if you buy it you will almost certainly want to side load which can be done without any hacking so all gravy.

Anyway it wouldn't be a true Amiga experience without some piracy.

davyK wrote:

Was never an Amiga owner nor ever experienced any games on it.

Sometimes that's for the best: I love my PC Engine mini, but never even touched one back in t' day.

Yeah - I'm tempted by it I have to say and it will be nice to play "new" retro games.

This, the Egret II with the spinner/track ball control and the JP MD mini are the 3 ones I've been tempted by. 

The Egret II really only has the Taito Legends games that I've played - but the paddle games would be better with the analogue controller but not convinced it's worth the cost. 

The MD mini was tempting because of the Darius game and its rare port of Tetris, but I've sort of gone off that now as I have the Darius collection for Switch and the TEtris port is part of the PS2 Tetris collection I have. 

The amiga one would largely be new experiences.

The PC-Engine was a revelation to me when I got some its games for the Wii VC - was a superb console. Didn't even know it had a mini.

I was an Atari fanboy before I was a Nintard (before being more open minded). The Atari computers were my wet dream in the 80s. An Atari 800 was my dream console (cart slot, 4 controller ports and tape or disc options) but was way over budget. The Atari ST range then came after that and I'd have loved one of those.   I always presumed the Amiga and ST had largely similar libraries.

It's never occurred to me to even look at emulation for that era to check it out.

I had an Amiga, it was great.

I’m tempted by one of these, but I think I’m willing to hold off to see if the price comes down at all.

Its £115 on Amazon which is £5 less than RRP I think so a saving if a small one.

Trouble is these minis go one way or the other. I think I'd be more upset about losing out totally than spending an extra £40 or so than necessary. That is me though it will be different for everyone.

£15.99 for me, all modded up by retroking now, I love it.

A friend of mine had an Amiga, and all the games, as was de riguer, which was quite something as a console gamer. A large list of roms(?) to choose from after a bit of tinkering with this could be amazing, even if only to experience some of the wonderfully woeful licensed platformers.

The console ports of the Bitmap games are mostly considered inferior to the Amiga games afaik, Davy.

Edit: as were the Sensible ports iirc.

That basically looks like mine but id have Captain Planet, Super Frog and maybe Fire and Ice.

Curse your random list.

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I have never considered one of these retro consoles, but this is tempting.

Fuck! Stunt Car Racer and Pinball Dreams!

Can’t not mention

Escape from the planet of the robot monsters

The list of games is ok but not Stella. Would’ve liked Bomb jack

Pleased about kick off 2 in the absence of sensi

Also no rainbow islands

The first thing I'd play is probably Zeewolf. Was super jel of that in magazines and never got to play it. Probably crap now but I've got to know.