Here’s Astro City Mini Arcade, Sega’s new miniaturized proposition: it has 36 games, and it fits in your hand. It seems that Sega has found a commercial sleeve in small versions of its classic hardware. Of course, he had already done the work with the 42 classics of the Mega Drive Mini 16-bit console. Then his goal was to announce a mini version of a console: the portable version of Game Gear, and the reduced version of Game Gear Micro. It’s now the turn of the new Astro City Mini Arcade video game, the desktop version of Sega’s most iconic.

Astro City was not a game, but an arcade furniture: where the owners of the playgrounds had the opportunity to install one from an extensive catalog of Sega games. The entire Sega leisure furniture line always had a nickname and Astro City, born in 1993, was the most popular and iconic of the lot. In fact, it’s pretty normal to see it in Japanese theaters

Sega's 36 classic game

The machine will include 36 games, as revealed in an interview with Game Watch Impress, which Sega has pushed back. Not all of them are known yet, but there is a mix of real classics and little classics like the ones on this list:

• Alien Syndrome
• Alien Storm
• Golden Axe
• Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder
• Columns II
• Dark Edge
• Ichidant-R
• Virtua Fighter
• Fantasy Zone
• Altered Beast

To all this must be added the 'Virtua Fighter', present in the official images of the machine. Some of the games, such as the sequel to ‘Dark Edge’ or ‘Golden Ax’, will be the first time they have reached home systems as they did not appear in previous compilations.

As for the technical features of the machine, the legendary Hiro of SEGA-AM 2 composer will put sounds and melodies for small arc menus, will have HDMI output, micro-switched joystick and removable link, will be compatible with external controls and will cost 12,800 yen, more than one hundred euros. There’s also talk of two USB-A ports, a Micro USB port, and headphones, but it’s still unknown whether the proposal can be fattened with additional games.

At the moment, unfortunately, there is no definitive list of games, nor an assertion that it will leave the Japanese market.

Sega

Sega Corporation is a multinational video game development and distribution company based in Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan. The two international subsidiaries, Sega America and Sega Europe, are headquartered in Irvine, California and London, respectively.

Sega was founded on June 3, 1960 by American entrepreneurs Martin Bromley and Richard Stewart. Shortly afterwards, the company acquired the assets of its predecessor, Japan Games. Five years later it was renamed Sega Enterprises, after Rosen Enterprises, an importer of video games, acquired coin-operated gaming machines. Sega developed its first arcade, Periscope, in the late 1960s. The company was sold to the Gulf and Western Industries in 1969. There was a decline in the construction games business in the early 1980s; Sega began developing game consoles. With the SG-1000 and Master System, however, it had to deal with competitors like Nintendo’s NES. In 1984, directors David Rosen and Hayao Nakayama, backed by CSK Corporation, acquired the company’s management.