Sega’s Genesis Mini retro game console is down to $50 today

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Today's Dealmaster is headed up by a nice price on the Sega Genesis Mini, which is down to $50 at a handful of retailers. While we've seen the retro game console briefly drop to $40 during a couple of sales earlier this year, today's price is tied for lowest we've seen it on Amazon specifically since the holiday season. For reference, Sega originally sold the device for $80, and it typically goes for $60 these days when it's in stock online.

We gave the Sega Genesis Mini a positive review when it launched last September. For the unfamiliar, this is a tiny retro console in the vein of Nintendo's NES Classic and SNES Classic, but with a built-in library of 42 games that were originally released for the Sega Genesis. It recreates the original machine wonderfully in a cuter, shrunken-down package, and it comes with two nicely molded controllers, both connectable via six-foot cables.

The most important piece of the Genesis Mini is that it gets the library right-mostly, at least when you consider the licensing nightmares that would come with getting classic sports and media tie-in games onto the machine. You still get a deep roster of RPGs, platformers, action games, and shoot-em-ups, ranging from expected mascot fare like the first two Sonic the Hedgehog games, Earthworm Jim, and Ecco the Dolphin, to classics like Shining Force, Contra: Hard Corps, and Gunstar Heroes, to others like Alisia Dragoon and Dynamite Headdy that are well worth playing even if their names don't ring a bell today. All of them are emulated well; our review's only nitpick was with some very slight audio delay.

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