Beige. Orange. Brown. The colours of the 1970s. Fortunately, I was very young back then and so was spared lasting trauma from terrifying interior decor. But at least in being there at the time I got to experience the dawn of home computing, through home micros that were very beige themselves. One was the Atari 400, now reborn as the Atari 400 Mini.

The folks at Retro Games have form in this area, having previously put the C64 and Amiga through a hot wash. I had mixed feelings about those minis yet felt oddly drawn to the newcomer. Strange, considering my memories of the original are hazy.