Atari has introduced the following within the line of Retro Video games’ mini PC consoles, the Atari 400 Mini, primarily based on the traditional Atari house laptop. Will probably be accessible beginning March 28.

For youthful readers, earlier than IBM and Microsoft devastated the proprietary house laptop market with the introduction of DOS, computer systems have been typically their very own platform. There was the Commodore line, the Sinclairs, the Apples, and, in fact, Atari. The Atari 400 and 800 have been first launched in 1979 and gave delivery to the Atari 8-bit line.

Retro Video games beforehand launched The C64 Mini, the A500 Mini (Amiga), and The Vic20, primarily based on the Commodore lineup of house computer systems.

The Atari 400 Mini comes with 25 preinstalled video games, together with M.U.L.E. and Millipede and the shop web page says you possibly can load and play packages “you already personal.” It comes with a USB controller styled off the Atari CX40, shows at 720p, and is powered by USB (no included adapter). It’s also suitable with different USB controllers.

I really feel like mini emulation containers are a very good match for previous computer systems. Except you’re an fanatic, you most likely have little interest in proudly owning the precise {hardware} for, say, spreadsheets. Subsequently, you don’t really want the keyboard, which was not often ever used to play video games. As for me, I personal an Atari 600XL and an Atari XEGS, so I’m most likely passing on this. However, video games for them are type of laborious to come back by and sometimes costly.

At present, the Atari 400 Mini is just introduced within the UK the place it releases on March 28. No plans have been introduced for North America.