Astro City Mini – Sega Arcade Mini-Console On The Way

Sega Astro City Mini arcade console

 

The Astro City Mini, a new mini-console, is on the way from Sega and it looks like being a must for all you classic arcade fans.

The news was unearthed by SEGADriven.com, but their Japanese source seems to have been pulled, so let’s hope a more concrete announcement appears soon. They did find a fair bit out about the system though.

It is expected to have 36 games, with these titles mentioned so far:

Alien Syndrome
Alien Storm
Golden Axe
Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder
Columns II
Dark Edge
Tant R
Viruta Fighter
Fantasy Zone
Altered Beast

Some of these games are classics. Who doesn’t like a bit of Golden Axe? Columns and Virtua Fighter are well worth having in your collection and Altered Beast, Alien Syndrome and Alien Storm are worth a revisit.

We’re not sure about the others, but look forward to giving them a try. We’d love to see Outrun, Space Harrier or Power Drift on there, but we’ll have to wait and see what turns up. The most advanced title on the list is Virtua Fighter, which is based on Sega’s Model 1 arcade board. That opens up the intriguing possibilities of seeing Virtua Racing or Star Wars Arcade, but there may be licensing issues with the latter, and Virtua Racing has just seen an outstanding re-release on Switch.

The system features a mini-screen, but there’s an HDMI out so you can hook it up to your TV. There are also ports for extra controllers. You’ll need to power it via micro-USB socket. It also has its own micro-switched joystick and six fire buttons, along with stereo speakers so you don’t need any extras to play on it.

It follows on from the many similar systems such as the NES and SNES Mini that have been doing the rounds lately and selling like hot cakes.

The Astro City Mini releases in Japan for Y12,800. An overseas release will hopefully follow on from that.


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