The quality of the games are better than I thought they’d be, but I’d rather see them on an Evercade cartridge. I don’t want another handheld device rolling around the place.
I got the Woodgrain edition ordered. I had to order it separately with the case because the bundle edition was gone already. Ended up costing me another $5 doing it that way... o'well.
Off topic here, but Megacat Studios just put out a kick ass looking arcade style space ship shooter for the Genesis called "ZPF", fingers crossed that we'll get that on the Evercade, since they've already been putting out Megacat games on the console. That'd be cool, it really looks great!
@@GameFreak1976 I loved it when Nintendo started up production of the NES Mini a while after it was sold out everywhere, and all of the resellers lost their minds! 😂
Neither of these is for me. (it's not about me anyway 😂) Glad to see new hardware/points of entry for the Evercade ecosystem! Bigger user base, better licensing negotiation power, MORE Arcade Carts! Let's go!!!!
I don't get it. They can combine the Technos arcade and console cart essentially AND sell hardware to go with it for $50 but heaven forbid they renew their license to sell Technos 1 console cart? If this was an entirely new company I'd probably applaud these two handhelds (even if I have zero interest and would not consider buying one) just because it's nice to see the retro side of gaming get more stuff. But since it's Blaze it pisses me off. Please get some new licenses and offer something on the VS and stop trying to sell hardware that re sells games I already have or didn't want on the Evercade.
Not going to lie the 2600 Special Edition looks cool. What got me curious is the Arcade Version of Asteroids on that list, wonder how close they are able to emulate the vector graphics? i too had that 200 Atari handheld & it really didn't wow me like i thought it would. Frogger was the only real thing on there that i went back to. Someone has mine as i left mine in one of those sleeves on a plane seat going on Vacation. So whoever was next to fly that plane got mine. i may have to redeem myself & get that wood grain version.
@@VEGANVANIA, I agree! The soundtrack on double dragon is great. As much as I do love that series, it’s hard to beat the Arcade version. When they ported it to the NES, I was disappointed. Not as disappointing as the Bad Dudes NES port though. That was awful.
Check my "community post" tab: I notice that Double Dragon 2 (on the Famicom) is worth more than double the price of 1 or 3... apparently that's the one home version everyone loves.
@@VEGANVANIA, I love Atari. It was the first console I owned back in 81’-82’. I could play games like asteroids for hours back then. Now I can only manage about 10-15 minutes. It’s not that I now dislike those games. I appreciate them, they just haven’t aged well. I think it may be because the 8 and 16 bit era spoiled us. I do love A LOT of modern games, but in my opinion, the 8 and 16 bit era was the best in the gaming world👍
I think the Atari wood grain is cool, but not $75+ cool, especially when I have great versions of most of those games on the Atari 50th Anniversary collection. I'm sure that Atari fans are going to eat that thing up though, and I think that's pretty awesome.
I grabbed a special edition Atari, I need a door stop for the bedroom as it's been a bit warm lately. 😜 Technos one is a bit meh, especially if you have the carts on Evercade. Thanks for sharing Game Freak! One final thought..., if you need camouflage when hunting Big Foot, woodgrain is your friend! 🤠👍
The one without the case is still available. Keep an eye on the page for the next 24hr-48hrs, Funstock have been known to add more when special editions sell out. Possibly to limit resellers getting them.
I think i will go for the Atari one just because i have Technos arcade collection on cartridge and then only missing the first Double Dragon game, but i have all three arcade versions on android that i bought years ago so ime looking forward to the Atari handheld.
@@andromedaone3640, totally understandable. If I was going to get one, it’d be the Atari version as well. It has a pretty good collection on it for sure👍
@5:46 _exactly._ I reviewed that same product from _My Arcade_ in its upright, mini arcade form. Evercade's Atari handheld offers better value for money than My Arcade, and I say this as someone who has made a video titled "everything wrong with" Evercade's Super Pocket. Blaze seems to specialize in bad, deeply flawed products that NEVERTHELESS offer good value for money. ;-)
If Evercade ever release a version of these with a nice 4-inch+ OLED display, I would buy one instantly, these games were made with CRT in mind, so LCD just doesn't have enough colour volume and contrast & black levels, not to mention the terrible motion clarity LCD's have all but destroys the faster moving sprite graphics, so number 1 an OLED display would negate all these issues, if it was one that uses 120Hz PWM to give 60Hz CRT quality motion clarity, as well as a nice little hardware scanline-generator IC, these retro games would then really shine on a screen like that, I really don't understand why someone would want to play these fast-paced arcade style games when you can't even see the sprites and characters on screen, so far only the Steam Deck OLED can display these games properly with 120Hz BFI and scanlines in 4:3 aspect, or you can even use a Trinitron or Shadow-Mask shader, another thing these should have as standard really, I would also really need to have a proper headphone AMP to consider buying one, though unfortunately, that will expose the very poor audio emulation these things have. They could fix this with a decent DSP, and an FPGA or ASIC, they would only need a something like the Tang Nano 20K, this would be plenty for decent real hardware quality chiptune audio, along with a RP2040 DSP, the Tang 20K can be had for less than $5 wholesale in bulk, and the RP2040 less than $1, so for very little money, these Evercade consoles could have a massive audio upgrade, without all the popping/clipping/stretching/out-of-key/jitter/crackling audio they current;y have via their very under-powered soft emulation audio has, the $6 or so combination of the FPGA & DSP would achieve better results than a quad-core 4GHz X86 CPU would via soft emulation, and it would really do the great physical cartridge collection Evercade has available justice, they could of course go full FPGA, which would be amazing, a full FPGA handheld that can do everything short of 6th gen games, with a beautiful 4:3 OLED display, and a decent DAC & HP-AMP can easily be developed and sold for well under £120, and the console version without a screen would only cost £80 or so, 'D buy an Evercade FPGA handheld & console in seconds of it being available.
@@Wobble2007, I totally get what you’re saying. That would definitely make the games feel more authentic for sure. I think the only reason they’re made the way they are is to keep that price point down as low as possible. It’s kind of a “you get what you pay for” type of thing…..in my opinion anyway 👍
Ordered the Atari Special Edition. Looks too cool not to pick it up. If I change my mind by November I'm sure can easily sell it for full price or higher. Games list is better than Technos for sure.
Last I seen, it was only the SE bundle with the case that was sold out. I think the SE without the case still has units available….unless that recently sold out already also?
@@konaboy1978, I know lol. I mentioned that in the video 👍 I said the bundle was sold out, but just the SE unit was still available. Oh forget it….i thought you were replying to me 😂
The Technos one is also a bit of a bummer, why put out a Super Pocket that has a number of built in games that are already released on a cartridge? That's kind of lame. They're competing against themselves at that point. Besides Combatribes, that Technos Arcade cart really wasn't very good. Blaze needs to step up their quality in game choices. I'm excited for Toaplan 3, but there are so many cartridges out there that are really loaded with stinkers. It'd be nice if us consumers could maybe provide them some input to help them make better choices, but the flip side of that is there are so many "Yes men" type Evercade fans that praise every turd they release.
We need some loaded arcade carts. It’d be cool if they made a variety arcade cart from various developers on a single cart. Doubt it’ll ever happen though.
@@jaredmellom Thanks👍 I’m still a relatively small channel, so it is budget lol. My subs don’t mind….as long as I get my point across in the videos. That’s the most important thing 🤘
That red and black is 🔥
The quality of the games are better than I thought they’d be, but I’d rather see them on an Evercade cartridge. I don’t want another handheld device rolling around the place.
I feel the same way. I want some new carts👍
I got the Woodgrain edition ordered.
I had to order it separately with the case because the bundle edition was gone already. Ended up costing me another $5 doing it that way... o'well.
Off topic here, but Megacat Studios just put out a kick ass looking arcade style space ship shooter for the Genesis called "ZPF", fingers crossed that we'll get that on the Evercade, since they've already been putting out Megacat games on the console. That'd be cool, it really looks great!
I seen that! I hope the same thing! I’m always down for playing some new shooters👍
They can do 50 Atari games and was it 17 technos wish they would re print legacy carts and screw the resellers over
Any time resellers get screwed over, makes me happy. I’d be 100% behind that idea👍
@@EvercadefanboyThat would be great to see, haha! I mean, why not print more if the demand and profit is there.
@@GameFreak1976 I loved it when Nintendo started up production of the NES Mini a while after it was sold out everywhere, and all of the resellers lost their minds! 😂
@@jmatt781, 😂😂😂…that’s awesome! Unfortunately, the resellers that did get their hands on them are now selling them for $500
@@GameFreak1976 For real, I never got my hands on either that or the SNES. I'm glad that I was able to grab a TG16 mini though, that thing is awesome.
Neither of these is for me. (it's not about me anyway 😂) Glad to see new hardware/points of entry for the Evercade ecosystem! Bigger user base, better licensing negotiation power, MORE Arcade Carts! Let's go!!!!
Definitely need some more Arcade carts for sure!!!👍
I'm happy for people who are excited for this, it's just not for me. I'll stick with my Taito Super Pocket for now :-) Keep up the awesome work!
I feel the same way. I hope they sell well….i think they will. But just not for me. And thank you!!!
I don't get it. They can combine the Technos arcade and console cart essentially AND sell hardware to go with it for $50 but heaven forbid they renew their license to sell Technos 1 console cart?
If this was an entirely new company I'd probably applaud these two handhelds (even if I have zero interest and would not consider buying one) just because it's nice to see the retro side of gaming get more stuff. But since it's Blaze it pisses me off. Please get some new licenses and offer something on the VS and stop trying to sell hardware that re sells games I already have or didn't want on the Evercade.
For sure! It kinda makes it feel like a money grab in a way.
Not going to lie the 2600 Special Edition looks cool. What got me curious is the Arcade Version of Asteroids on that list, wonder how close they are able to emulate the vector graphics? i too had that 200 Atari handheld & it really didn't wow me like i thought it would. Frogger was the only real thing on there that i went back to. Someone has mine as i left mine in one of those sleeves on a plane seat going on Vacation. So whoever was next to fly that plane got mine. i may have to redeem myself & get that wood grain version.
@@erneststackhouse1133, that wood grain does look pretty slick for sure👍
Double Dragon: great music, but keep in mind that you'll be playing it ALONE. Unlike the Game Boy in 1989, there is no link cable!
@@VEGANVANIA, I agree! The soundtrack on double dragon is great. As much as I do love that series, it’s hard to beat the Arcade version. When they ported it to the NES, I was disappointed. Not as disappointing as the Bad Dudes NES port though. That was awful.
Check my "community post" tab: I notice that Double Dragon 2 (on the Famicom) is worth more than double the price of 1 or 3... apparently that's the one home version everyone loves.
@10:15 Some people still want to play Asteroids in 2024, and some don't.
@@VEGANVANIA, I love Atari. It was the first console I owned back in 81’-82’. I could play games like asteroids for hours back then. Now I can only manage about 10-15 minutes. It’s not that I now dislike those games. I appreciate them, they just haven’t aged well. I think it may be because the 8 and 16 bit era spoiled us. I do love A LOT of modern games, but in my opinion, the 8 and 16 bit era was the best in the gaming world👍
I would have prefered a special technos edition. I’m just not big on Atari. If anything the regular Atari version looks better.
Some of those Atari arcade titles like Super Breakout and Millipede don't play very well on a d-pad.
I think the Atari wood grain is cool, but not $75+ cool, especially when I have great versions of most of those games on the Atari 50th Anniversary collection. I'm sure that Atari fans are going to eat that thing up though, and I think that's pretty awesome.
No doubt! Both are a hard pass from me, but I’m sure they will sell well👍
I grabbed a special edition Atari, I need a door stop for the bedroom as it's been a bit warm lately. 😜
Technos one is a bit meh, especially if you have the carts on Evercade.
Thanks for sharing Game Freak! One final thought..., if you need camouflage when hunting Big Foot, woodgrain is your friend! 🤠👍
😂😂😂….Hey, that wood grain does look pretty slick. Glad you could order yourself one before they’re gone👍
The one without the case is still available. Keep an eye on the page for the next 24hr-48hrs, Funstock have been known to add more when special editions sell out. Possibly to limit resellers getting them.
I think i will go for the Atari one just because i have Technos arcade collection on cartridge and then only missing the first Double Dragon game, but i have all three arcade versions on android that i bought years ago so ime looking forward to the Atari handheld.
@@andromedaone3640, totally understandable. If I was going to get one, it’d be the Atari version as well. It has a pretty good collection on it for sure👍
@5:46 _exactly._ I reviewed that same product from _My Arcade_ in its upright, mini arcade form. Evercade's Atari handheld offers better value for money than My Arcade, and I say this as someone who has made a video titled "everything wrong with" Evercade's Super Pocket. Blaze seems to specialize in bad, deeply flawed products that NEVERTHELESS offer good value for money. ;-)
Avevo chiesto altri super pocket e finalmente eccoli qua oleeeeeeee 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
If Evercade ever release a version of these with a nice 4-inch+ OLED display, I would buy one instantly, these games were made with CRT in mind, so LCD just doesn't have enough colour volume and contrast & black levels, not to mention the terrible motion clarity LCD's have all but destroys the faster moving sprite graphics, so number 1 an OLED display would negate all these issues, if it was one that uses 120Hz PWM to give 60Hz CRT quality motion clarity, as well as a nice little hardware scanline-generator IC, these retro games would then really shine on a screen like that, I really don't understand why someone would want to play these fast-paced arcade style games when you can't even see the sprites and characters on screen, so far only the Steam Deck OLED can display these games properly with 120Hz BFI and scanlines in 4:3 aspect, or you can even use a Trinitron or Shadow-Mask shader, another thing these should have as standard really, I would also really need to have a proper headphone AMP to consider buying one, though unfortunately, that will expose the very poor audio emulation these things have.
They could fix this with a decent DSP, and an FPGA or ASIC, they would only need a something like the Tang Nano 20K, this would be plenty for decent real hardware quality chiptune audio, along with a RP2040 DSP, the Tang 20K can be had for less than $5 wholesale in bulk, and the RP2040 less than $1, so for very little money, these Evercade consoles could have a massive audio upgrade, without all the popping/clipping/stretching/out-of-key/jitter/crackling audio they current;y have via their very under-powered soft emulation audio has, the $6 or so combination of the FPGA & DSP would achieve better results than a quad-core 4GHz X86 CPU would via soft emulation, and it would really do the great physical cartridge collection Evercade has available justice, they could of course go full FPGA, which would be amazing, a full FPGA handheld that can do everything short of 6th gen games, with a beautiful 4:3 OLED display, and a decent DAC & HP-AMP can easily be developed and sold for well under £120, and the console version without a screen would only cost £80 or so, 'D buy an Evercade FPGA handheld & console in seconds of it being available.
@@Wobble2007, I totally get what you’re saying. That would definitely make the games feel more authentic for sure. I think the only reason they’re made the way they are is to keep that price point down as low as possible. It’s kind of a “you get what you pay for” type of thing…..in my opinion anyway 👍
Ordered the Atari Special Edition. Looks too cool not to pick it up. If I change my mind by November I'm sure can easily sell it for full price or higher. Games list is better than Technos for sure.
It’s definitely the better of the two. Not real sure why they even did the technos one. They’re double dipping with the majority of the games.
@@GameFreak1976Agree, and even if Double Dragon runs sweet it deserves a bigger screen and a 2 player option...
@@MIK_F40, for sure! That’s a game that is meant for 2 players….and a bigger screen.👍
Getting the Atari one. I don't really care for Technos games
"The Special Edition is already sold out" - because UK company & UK timezone (& only 2600)........😂
Last I seen, it was only the SE bundle with the case that was sold out. I think the SE without the case still has units available….unless that recently sold out already also?
It’s not sold out, you just looked at the bundle edition…………..😂
@@konaboy1978, I know lol. I mentioned that in the video 👍 I said the bundle was sold out, but just the SE unit was still available. Oh forget it….i thought you were replying to me 😂
The Technos one is also a bit of a bummer, why put out a Super Pocket that has a number of built in games that are already released on a cartridge? That's kind of lame. They're competing against themselves at that point. Besides Combatribes, that Technos Arcade cart really wasn't very good. Blaze needs to step up their quality in game choices. I'm excited for Toaplan 3, but there are so many cartridges out there that are really loaded with stinkers. It'd be nice if us consumers could maybe provide them some input to help them make better choices, but the flip side of that is there are so many "Yes men" type Evercade fans that praise every turd they release.
We need some loaded arcade carts. It’d be cool if they made a variety arcade cart from various developers on a single cart. Doubt it’ll ever happen though.
@@GameFreak1976 I totally agree brother!
I enjoy the carts not interested in anymore hardware. I have a Vs, capcom Exp and Taito Super pocket. That’s more than enough
@@jamiemckie I feel the exact same way👍
pretty good intro but looks BUUUUUUDGET
@@jaredmellom Thanks👍 I’m still a relatively small channel, so it is budget lol. My subs don’t mind….as long as I get my point across in the videos. That’s the most important thing 🤘
@@GameFreak1976 absolutely thanks for the reply I do like the content
@@jaredmellom, thanks man! Greatly appreciated!