Okay, we finally have a release date and price for Hyperkin’s oft-delayed, much-anticipated RetroN5: The week of June 6th, for $140. Now if you have been following this storied saga, it was going to cost $99 or so MSRP, but I guess all the delays caught up with them and they’ll have to charge a tiny bit more. Don’t worry, it’ll be cheaper on Amazon… if Amazon decides to stock it.
Now, the reviews coming out thus far have been… mixed at best. I’ve been looking at reviews of other clone consoles too and I haven’t seen anything to make me consider upgrading from my RetroN3 to anything else just yet. It may be that the RetroN5 is my replacement, but I do not know yet. I definitely know I will be watching the reactions of real people to the RetroN5 before I make my final decision, though.
One other thing about Hyperkin: At the Midwest Gaming Classic a couple months back, Hyperkin didn’t sit on the announcement of a new RetroN system just because the RetroN5 was heavily delayed. They announced the new RetroN x86, which is based on the Commodore VIC-20, is Linux-based and will play just about any old PC game you have the original discs/disks for with very little tweaking. They didn’t give ANY further details other than that it’s ostensibly coming out later this year, but I cannot wait to mess around with that whenever that does come out.
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