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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.