It's a gorgeous little thing heavily inspired by the arcade cabinets of the day, with SNK seeming to know that few have nostalgia for the Neo Geo home console so much as the arcade originals.Īs such you're treated to a lovingly-crafted recreation of those cabinets that comes in two flavors - a more immediately striking and colourful asian variant and a more simple Western release that features the blue, black and white colour scheme pictured above. The most striking thing about the Neo Geo Mini is its design, so that's a natural place to start. Like most micro consoles, it's a welcome little trip down memory lane - though one, as ever, with caveats. Thus we end up with the Neo Geo Mini, a nifty little micro-console that brings those beloved 'premium' games home in their most accessible form yet. The Neo Geo has always been an item of premium luxury by comparison - expensive back in the day and more expensive still now, they're in no way as readily available. It's still easy to dig out a NES, SNES or Mega Drive and some carts, for instance, or pick up some on eBay. The Neo Geo Mini presents a unique opportunity compared to other consoles of this type. The latest company to joint he fray is SNK with the appropriately-named Neo Geo Mini.

No longer was the retro throwback 'micro console' the realm of unlicensed, piracy-happy boxes - now, these little boxes are legit. Cheap, emulated re-releases of classic consoles have been around for many years now, but with Nintendo's release of the NES Classic, everything changed.

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