Evercade

Article summary

The Evercade is a handheld game console developed and manufactured by British company Blaze Entertainment. It focuses on retro gaming with flash memory based game cartridges that each contain a number of emulated games. The Evercade was released on 22 May 2020, and upon its launch, it offered 10 game cartridges with a combined total of 122 games. Arc System Works, Atari, Bandai Namco Entertainment, G-Mode, Interplay Entertainment and Piko Interactive have released emulated versions of their games for the Evercade. Pre-existing homebrew games have also been re-released on the system by Mega Cat Studios. The Evercade is capable of playing games originally released for the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari Lynx, Intellivision, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis and PlayStation as well as arcade games, and home computer games for the Commodore 64, Amiga and ZX Spectrum. A home console version, the Evercade VS, was released in December 2021. The original handheld console was discontinued and replaced with the improved Evercade EXP, released at the end of 2022.

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1. release date: 2020-05-22 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. release date: 2021 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. release date: 2022 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. release date: 2020 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
5. release date: 2021 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
6. release date: 2021 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
7. release date: 2024 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
8. release date: 2022-12-15 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
9. release date: 2024 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374310879