Taito Egret II Mini review – “Limited-edition arcade nostalgia for your home”

My childhood gaming experience can be defined by many things, but these three will always stand out – poor eyesight, my patient older brother, and dying on a pixelated screen over and over again. Part of the appeal of retro games is the difficulty – the lack of save states and handholding included – but the one thing that keeps us coming back for more is the nostalgia of it all.

The desire to revisit that sweet innocence of youth is what compels us to put ourselves through torture just to get a taste of that old-school exhilaration, a whiff of the good old days when life – and games – were simpler. The Taito Egret II Mini aims to recapture all that in a tiny portable package, but is that sentiment really worth the purchase? … [MORE]

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