C64 Maxi

Un firmware update du C64 Mini permettait d’installer ses propres jeux (ROMs). Visiblement c’est aussi le cas du C64 Maxi, ce qui est bienvenu car les jeux pré-installés sont nencore pires que ceux du C64 Mini:

(source: Metro.co.uk)

Of course, one of the main appeals of The C64 Maxi is that you can play any game on it you like by loading other files from a USB stick. The documentation skates over the legality of using ROMs of commercial games though, even as the device supports all common emulation formats, including multi-disk games and cartridges. From that perspective the Maxi is perfect because you’ve got the whole keyboard and a decent joystick just waiting to play any game you want. Given all that, the price really doesn’t seem so bad and if you assume they’ve done the best they can with the game selection this is as good as a re-released C64 could probably ever be. However, unlike the Mega Drive Mini or Classic Mini Nintendo consoles the selection of games is nowhere near the best the format has to offer, with many of them barely worth playing more than once. Unlike the retro consoles, The C64 Maxi is not a ready-built time capsule of everything that was great about the original computer – but it could be if you’re willing to put in the effort to curate it yourself.