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Amiga 500 Mini announced with mouse, controller, & 25 games (2022 Release)

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Farmboy

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For maximum nostalgia I'm hoping for Terramex, Moonstone and the James Pond games. Also have fond memories of many Capcom arcade ports (Strider, Ghouls N Ghosts, Bionic Commando and Forgotten Worlds specifically), but I can imagine those will be harder to license.
 
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Up for pre-order on Amazon UK, it's saying temporarily out of stock but still accepting orders:

The A500 Mini (Electronic Games) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09BW8N7JZ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_5VZVRB71JZMG308HFKNA

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Released March 31st, 2022.
 
homez99

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Got quite emotional looking at the trailer for this. I remember playing on my uncle's Amiga growing up, showing me how to rename players on Premier Manager and to save loads of the little chaps in Lemmings. I remember a game that had first person racing and flying but I can't recall the title. Also the amazing plug-in Action Replay device with switches on the side!

He gave me the Amiga in the end but it's in storage at the moment as it's such a hench lad. Something small and easy to just plug in like this would be ideal.
 
Nuclear Detergent

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What hardware is inside the unit?

Amiga emulation is notoriously difficult. The sales text mentioning "perfect emulation", which is a pretty tall order. I really hope that's true (across more than the 25 included games), because that would make it an instant buy.

Also, please don't emulate the load times of the A500.

EDIT: "THEA500 Mini (Keyboard non-functional. Virtual keyboard feature included)". Whelp :(
 
cowbanana

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Alexandros said:
I'm curious, what were your favorite games?
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It's been a very long time, but I really liked Lemmings, Black Crypt, Populous II, Millennium + Deuteros, The Great Giana Sisters, Elf, Ocean Beack Volley, Banshee, X-Out, Z-Out, Shadow of the Beast II + III (The first one was pretty, but the gameplay wasn't that great), The Lost Patrol, Flood... shit, I could go on for a while :)

A lot of my other favorites, such as Eye of the Beholder and most of the point and click games from LucasArts and Sierra are actually better played on PC, due to the better graphics (256 colours).

Every time I go through a list of Amiga Games I'm always reminded of more games I really liked.

Like I said, the selection is good so far, happy to see Cadaver as that game is dear to me. But it's never going to hit all the right spots :)
 
CasuallyDressed

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I was super excited for this until I saw the library. No Lotus Turbo Challenge II, Soccer Kid, Dizzy, Cannon Fodder, WALKER, Lemmings, SWOS, Turrican? :(
 

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mclem

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Dizzy Ukulele said:
That line up looks a bit PlayStation Classic to me so far.
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It doesn't look too bad to me, but definitely could do with some Sensible Software and/or Bullfrog representation, if either of those are at all possible.

Wouldn't mind seeing an RPG, too, although which are quintessentially 'Amiga' without being already very accessible in another form today (So not Bard's Tale, for instance)?. Dungeon Master? Albion? Times of Lore? I'd assume the Gold Box titles and the Ultimas would be off the table.

Can we deduce anything about who they're in touch with for rights based on the games that have been announced? Who owns the 21st Century Entertainment Pinball rights, these days? Or the Bitmap Bros rights?

Edit: Oh, I'd love to see a Lotus in there, but I *assume* the rights would be tricky.
 
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Farmboy said:
For maximum nostalgia I'm hoping for Terramex, Moonstone and the James Pond games. Also have fond memories of many Capcom arcade ports (Strider, Ghouls N Ghosts, Bionic Commando and Forgotten Worlds specifically), but I can imagine those will be harder to license.
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Maybe a cost issue, but I doubt it would be hard.

Many Capcom retro stuff is found in other mini consoles and stuff like Arcade 1up, so I wouldn't count them out.
 

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PenultimateFantasy said:
That'd be Sony i imagine.
Although there was a strange remake of Shadow of the Beast for the PS4
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First and Second Samurai also were Psygnosis' but now someone else owns it. So who knows what games Sony owns besides Lemmings and Shadow of the Beast from Amiga days.

sir_crocodile said:
they keyboard doesn't work? lollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
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If it's similiar dimmensions to C64 mini it's only 10" width. Good luck putting there keyboard with keys and keypad.
 
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harry the spy

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YolkFolk said:
When I was young we actually won an Amiga 500 out of a national newspaper.

I remembered we entered the competition but didn't hear back for weeks and then one day I came home from school and it was just waiting in the living room.

Ended up getting into games like Night Breed, Shadow of the Beast 2, Prince of Persia, New Zealand Story, Zool, Sensible Soccer, Wings, Dizzy (also had on the ZX Spectrum), Theme Park.
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That's really awesome. You must have been so happy when you saw it
 
Oswen

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An Amiga 500 was my first gaming device ever, I was a very young kid but I can still remember my father coming home with that box and me not having a single clue what that was.

I'll probably be getting this.
 
BigDes

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God I loved the Amiga

I miss the days where overly large candy was considered level design
 
Fularu

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MrKlaw said:
Preordered -thanks

same time as my Taito mini.

Even if you want to run this in steam - look at it as a legit OS license to help your emulators ;)
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You can get a legit OS license for 10$ from Cloanto or everything for 45$ if you buy Amiga OS 3.2

Seems overkill just for that :P
 
Griffith

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I grew up playing games on a neighbor's A600, which was passed down to me, and on an A1200. I love those machines, I did my first 3D animation on those machines. They were amazing.

But that horrid D-Pad on that shitty controller destroyed all of my nostalgia and any and all appreciation I might have had for this product.

The Playstation D-Pad is TERRIBLE. Stop mimicking it. The patent on cross shaped D-Pads has ended, and even if it hadn't, it's not hard to get around it. You can make a good D-Pad so do it!

And to be fair, I get what they were getting with that controller design, it's meant to invoke the design of their Amiga CD controller which, admittedly, also had a shitty D-Pad, but it would be easier to improve its design and fix it than it would be to make it worse.

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Zweisy1

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Cool. A mini version of my favourite computer of all time. I would be more interested if it had a working keyboard like the C64 Maxi though..
 

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I d rather have an atari st mini but it is great to have that amiga 500 mini and that you c as n upload your own games
 
Bazry

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I just wish that controller actually worked on an Amiga CD32 because I need one and they go close to £100 on Ebay
 
Fright Zone

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I would love to play some old Amiga games, but not many of the starting line up interest me aside from Pinball Dreams.
If you can somehow add more games I'll definitely consider this!
 
MikeProtagonist

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Since you CAN add your own stuff to it, it means I can take all my Workbench discs that I made through the (now sadly useless) Armiga and put them on this thing. And it means you can add whatever other ADF files that have been made available, like Turrican 2.

mclem said:
It doesn't look too bad to me, but definitely could do with some Sensible Software and/or Bullfrog representation, if either of those are at all possible.

Wouldn't mind seeing an RPG, too, although which are quintessentially 'Amiga' without being already very accessible in another form today (So not Bard's Tale, for instance)?. Dungeon Master? Albion? Times of Lore? I'd assume the Gold Box titles and the Ultimas would be off the table.

Can we deduce anything about who they're in touch with for rights based on the games that have been announced? Who owns the 21st Century Entertainment Pinball rights, these days? Or the Bitmap Bros rights?

Edit: Oh, I'd love to see a Lotus in there, but I *assume* the rights would be tricky.
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Bitmap Bros still carry their own rights, they're basically only doing licensing nowadays. Rebellion owns the Pinball Dreams/Fantasies games (the original DICE founders own Pinball Illusions collectively).

I assume EA owns everything Bullfrog made, plus Deluxe Paint obviously, so it depends on whether they'll play nicely.
 
Wilco

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Oh wow, won't be able to resist this.
For maximum nostalgia need:
Project X
Premiere
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MikeProtagonist

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By the way, I can't see how anyone could compare this to the Playstation Classic. It already has eight of the most classic games, and as a plus, none of them are multiplatform games that are already on other mini systems. There's just so many classics on the system that you can't get them all licensed, but that's what the sideloading is for if you already own the games.
 
Santar

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It's nice that they're finally doing this, but I really hope the quality is better than on the c64 mini/biggie
That joystick was pretty crap. Mine stuck to the left side out of the box.
Also feels a bit weird that it's a 500 but Alien Breed 3D of all things is on it. A game that I'm pretty sure wouldn't run on a 500.
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What?! There's no joystick but just a controller? That's a disappointment. I mean 90% if people played the amiga with a one button joystick. Just give us a zipstick dang it!

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Griffith said:
it's meant to invoke the design of their Amiga CD controller
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Yeah, first thing I did was run out and get a Competition Pro controller:

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If we're wishing for games, I don't imagine this would pass the licensing police, but Jaguar XJ220. Codemasters game. Same sort of vibe as Lotus but had two things that were absolutely fantastic:

1) Track designer. You could hand craft a meandering atmospheric track, which was important because,
2) Codemasters music man at the time was Martin Ivesson, who I better know as seminal deep house producer Atjazz. Some of the tracks on XJ220 were just wonderful. Bin off the few high energy ones, such as the weird stab at thrashy rock, and just get into the dewy electronica:



And niche game mention to Deuteros.

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Deuteros: The Next Millennium (Amiga) Game Download

Download the original Deuteros: The Next Millennium for Amiga, a retro game ready to play, packed for Windows and Mac with the proper emulator.
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Katana_Strikes

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This is exciting. The Amiga was great. Strange choice to have Alien Breed 3D. What a waste of a slot. I assume they couldn't get the first 2. When there's only 25 games, every game counts. And the Amiga had lots. Games were hard though.
 
Dineren

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This is the same company that made The C64 right? I had wanted to get one of those, but they sold out instantly in the US and they don't seem to be restocking very quickly. I can't imagine the US is a very high priority for them, maybe I'll just have to import.
 
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