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Review: Toaplan Arcade 2 - I Am The God Of Hellfire

Time Extension about 6 months ago

...and I bring you...The first Evercade Toaplan Arcade collection was packed with big hitters from the Japanese company's history, including Zero Wing, Truxton, Flying Shark and Tiger Heli. While Toaplan's back catalogue has more than enough hits to make a …
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Review: Toaplan Arcade 1 - A Shmup-Heavy Delight For Arcade Lovers

Time Extension about 6 months ago

All Your Evercades are belong to us.Toaplan may be most famous today for its range of horizontal and vertical shmups, but the company has a proud history of dabbling in other genres, as this collection for the Evercade family of systems attests.Even so, it …
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Review: Duke Nukem Collection 2 - A Trio Of Duke's Less Essential Adventures

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Smells like someone cut the fromage.Although Duke Nukem's history is filled with notable titles – the much-delayed Duke Nukem Forever being perhaps the most infamous of all – it's fair to say that his most beloved game is 1996's Duke Nukem 3D, an FPS c …
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Review: Duke Nukem Collection 1 - The King's First Three Adventures In One Place

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Shake it, baby.A few years before he was "all outta gum", Duke Nukem starred in a pair of MS-DOS action platformers which were distributed as shareware. Created by Apogee Software, Duke Nukem (1991) and Duke Nukem II (1993) were two rare beasts, at least o …
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Review: Goodboy Galaxy / Witch n' Wiz - A Must-Have For Your Evercade

Time Extension about 6 months ago

That's a good boy.This new double pack for Evercade has a distinctly Nintendo-like feel to it, and that's not only because the two titles – Goodboy Galaxy and Witch n' Wiz – were originally designed to run on Game Boy Advance and NES, respectively.Good …
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Review: Demons of Asteborg / Astebros - Two Excellent Mega Drive Games On Evercade

Time Extension about 6 months ago

16-bit power.Developer Neofid Studios has gained an impressive reputation when it comes to pushing the Sega Mega Drive / Genesis to its limits. Demons of Asteborg (2021) and Astebros (2023) have both been released on the 16-bit system to a warm critical re …
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Review: Full Void - Evercade's Most Accomplished Native Release Yet

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Void out.While the Evercade family of systems is home to a wide range of cartridge collections packed with retro games, we're now seeing 'native' titles which have been designed from the ground up to work on the Evercade hardware rather than via emulation. …
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Review: Irem Arcade 1 - Come For R-Type, Stay For Genuine Coin-Op History

Time Extension about 6 months ago

Six of the best from Irem.Irem is best known today for its genre-defining R-Type series, and this collection for the Evercade includes the game that kicked off that famous lineage. R-Type is comfortably the biggest reason to invest in this pack, but it's j …
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Full Void: The OutofTheBit developer interview

Portable Gaming Roundup about 6 months ago

You may have noticed that I'm rather in love with Full Void (review) and the Evercade physical limited edition. The exciting cinematic adventure from OutofTheBit in the style of Another World and other 16-bit classics is a lovingly-crafted slice of gaming. …
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Review: Full Void

Portable Gaming Roundup about 6 months ago

Price: Physical £17.99 Standard/£24.99 Limited Edition Evercade (Digital: £11.99 PS4/PS5 on PSN or £13.99 on Switch eShop)Developer: OutofTheBitPublisher: EvercadePlayers: 1Also: If you like the sound of Full Void, please check out my interview wi …
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Unwrapping the Evercade Full Void limited edition

Portable Gaming Roundup about 6 months ago

 I know OutoftheBit's Full Void is available on other platforms (Switch among them), but as the first Evercade solo game cart and limited edition, this has to the format of choice. Buying the LE or standard helps support the developers and gives the E …
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Blaze Reveals Release Dates For Final Evercade Carts Of 2023

Time Extension about 6 months ago

There's lots happening this month...Evercade maker Blaze has some good news – it's been able to bring forward the release of its final cartridges of 2023.The dual-cart releases Goodboy Galaxy / Witch n' Wiz and Demons of Asteborg / Astebros will now laun …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #103

Retro Arcadia about 7 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I’ll start with something new, and Cocoon, which came to Xbox Game Pass …
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Hands On: Evercade's Latest Crop Of Carts Offer Some Welcome Surprises

Time Extension about 8 months ago

Sunsoft! Delphine! Piko! Sydney Hunter!The Evercade line continues to go from strength to strength, with new cartridges joining the ranks for play on both the Evercade VS and Evercade EXP.We've just taken receipt of four shiny new cartridges here at Time E …
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Evercade's Atari Carts Are Being Discontinued

Time Extension about 8 months ago

"It seems the best time to refocus our energies on new licenses".Evercade maker Blaze has revealed that its current crop of Atari cartridges will become 'legacy' releases at the end of 2023, meaning they will no longer be produced.Once the remaining stock …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #102

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I finished Starfield! And as promised – when I also promised not to …
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Discovering R.B.I. Baseball on NES

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

I regularly come up with stuff here I say I’ll come back to and look at it more detail sometime later, and do you know what? Sooner or later I generally do! Either a man of my word or it just saves me thinking what’s next, take your pick! Let me give …
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First Play Of Tekken 8 & New Prince Of Persia Four Months Before Release

Retro Dodo about 8 months ago

We had the chance to visit the September 2023 WASD x IGN video game expo held at the Truman Brewery in London and had a first play of Tekken 8 & new Prince of Persia game ‘The Lost Crown’. There were tons of upcoming games being showca …
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My favourite methods of handheld gaming

Retromash about 8 months ago

It seems totally normal now doesn’t it? Playing digital games on the move in the palm of your hand. There are so many ways you can do it these days. You might enjoy playing quick mobile games on your phone, a trend started by Candy Crush and Angry Bi …
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Full Void fills a hole on the Switch

Portable Gaming Roundup about 8 months ago

 I've already ordered the limited edition Evercade version of Full Void, but if you can't wait, the stylish puzzle adventure is out now on Switch and Xbox. The Switch version has a 20% early digital discount, down to £11.19 on the UK eShop, but I'll …
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Retro Arcadia Gaming Pickups – Summer 2023 Edition

Retro Arcadia about 8 months ago

I’ve got a few new regular features up my sleeve to complement the usual various forms of weekly deep-dives at Retro Arcadia, partly to keep things fresh but also partly to take a bit of the pressure off me trying to juggle writing them alongside juggli …
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The Dizzy Fansite – 25 Years on the Web

Yolkfolk.com about 8 months ago

... what else can I say?25 years on the Internet!The year was 1998, over 4 years had passed since the Oliver Twins began walking away from Codemasters, and Codemasters themselves had already decided to a …
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Upcoming Evercade Cartridges Hit By Slight Delay

Time Extension about 9 months ago

Shipping delays to blame.Evercade maker Blaze Entertainment has announced that four of its upcoming Evercade cartridges have been hit by a slight delay.The release date of both Sunsoft Collection 1 and Delphine Software Collection 1 has now moved to Octobe …
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Remastered WipEout races back onto the Vita

Portable Gaming Roundup about 9 months ago

Vita owners have a great world of WipEout to enjoy. We can play the original PlayStation release on the Vita, up to the joyous WipEout 2048 native experience, plus WipEout Pulse from the PSP days. Now, thanks to some smart coding from PhobosLab, a rem …
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Retro Arcadia Weekly Spotlight #98

Retro Arcadia about 9 months ago

Back again for our regular Sunday roundup of quick-fire reviews and impressions of everything under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… My 2D Sonic journey is almost complete, with just Sonic Blast on Game Gea …