Commodore

Sometimes you just want to wrap yourself in the comfortable nostalgia of classic games. Modernized mini consoles help if you don’t have the originals, and the latest is the Amiga 500 Mini, which comes loaded with 25 games and the option to add more.

A new retro games console, dubbed the C64, bucks the trend of recent retro games boxes, being a full-sized recreation of the machine on which it’s based: the Commodore 64 (which originally launched in 1982 – basically Victorian times).

To those of a certain age, the Commodore 64 is synonymous with 80s gaming. Lego, on the other hand, is a little-known children's toy from the southern reaches of Scandinavia. Perhaps inevitably, someone has thought to marry the two, resulting in The Brixty Four.

​Sweden's Love Hultén is probably best known for his wonderfully retro gaming creations, but for his one-off PET De Lux project, the designer and craftsman has paid tribute to a grand-daddy of home computing, the Commodore PET 2001 all-in-one personal computer released in 1977.​

With Nintendo, Sega and Atari all in the middle of rereleasing consoles from the 80s and 90s, it's a great time to be a retro gamer. And now an older-school player is jumping into the mix: a mini version of the classic Commodore 64 is due next year.