The final roster will include 25 games, but only 12 are confirmed so far. Those are:
Alien Breed 3D Another World ATR: All Terrain Racing Battle Chess Cadaver Kick Off 2 Pinball Dreams Simon The Sorcerer Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe The Chaos Engine Worms: The Director’s Cut Zool: Ninja Of The Nth Dimension
The mini console’s site offers a handful of technical details. You’ll be able to save and resume, add your own games, use a USB keyboard, and it can output at 720p with different scaling options. It’s standard stuff. One of my brothers got an Amiga 500 as a Christmas or birthday present sometime around 1990, and it probably had more influence on my life than any other single object. The strength of it as a machine was that its game library contained a little of everything: the fighting and racing games and platformers you’d associate with contemporary consoles like the SNES, but also strategy games, management games, point-and-click adventures. It’s therefore a hard computer to do justice to with just 25 games, and the selection above doesn’t immediately give me hope. Alien Breed 3D’s pivot to first-person feels like a overreach, Kick Off 2 pales in comparison to Sensible Socceer, and I’d rather Overdrive or Skidmarks to ATR: All Terrain Racing. Pinball Dreams, The Chaos Engine and Speedball 2 are all bangers, though. If they put Superfrog on there, I riot.
