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that on eBay. YetAndrews argues that his
machine offers convenience.
“Wewanted to release something that
offers plug and play, instant start up,instant
load and just fun out of the box,”hesays.
Indeed, buying an old computer can be
fiddly and there’s no guarantee that you’ll be
able to get an original working.
“Most people don’t have an old CRTTV
now and tapes are also degrading over time,”Andrews adds. “So hopefully we have
created something that can carry on
the fun legacy and provide so many
happymemories formore generations
to come.”CD OR NOTCD
ISTHE QUESTION
FOR SEGAFANS
If you’re afan of the Sega Mega
Drive,then chances are you’ll
have considered buying a
second-hand Mega-CD device.
Designed to sit underneath
the original console and
released in 1991, it allowed
gamers to playCD-based games
such as Sonic CD and Lunar:
Eternal Blue,aswell as ahost of
terrible FMV games, including
the controversial Night Trap.
Spanish retro supporter
Terraonion has an alternative,
however: aplug-and-play
cartridge called MegaSD,which
it bills as the “world’s first Mega
CD FPGA optical disc emulator”.
As well as supporting Mega
Drive and Master System ROMs,
it lets you playISO game files
saved on a400GB microSD card.
It also supports 32X games if
you have a32X add-on.
The biggest sting is the price
–€232, which is currently around
£210 –but with instant booting,
the ability to save game states
and abuilt-in cheat engine,it
could be aperfect waytoenjoy
Mega CD games.
Interested? Check it out at
tinyurl.com/380retro.WAITAMINIT:
CONSOLE GAME
COMINGTO 8BITS
The bite-sized adventure game
Minit, which has gone down a
storm on contemporary
platforms, is set to be released
on the Commodore 64 and the
forthcoming ZX Spectrum Next.
Designed to be played for
just 60 seconds at atime,it’s
already gloriously retro in
appearance,with black-and-whitevisuals that has
seen it taken to the
heart of gamers
on the PS4, Xbox
One,Nintendo
Switch and many
other devices.
Players are
forced to do as
much as possible
within aminute
before losing alifeand being
respawned at the last checkout.
All the while,the bird-like
character is having subtle effects
on the environment, allowing
puzzles to be solved and levels to
be completed. Such quirkiness
has won the game abundle of
awards, and its conversion to
8bits is being overseen by
publisher Thalmus, which made a
remastered version of Hunter’s
Moon available last year.⬆Protovision releases new games forthe Commodore 64 atwww.protovision.games