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WIRED
Comfortable to use and well-built. Lots of officially licensed classic game collections to choose from. Works as a controller if you plug into a TV. Affordable.
TIRED
No multiplayer. Requires extra purchases of cable and cartridges.
Great gameplay never dies. That s precisely what my kids and I learned after the Evercade entered my household.
It s an $80 handheld, retro console that can play a curated selection of emulated games from the likes of Atari, Namco, Data East, and many others, mostly from the 1980s and 1990s. These collections are playable on cartridges you insert into the Evercade, each housing about 20 games and costing $20. Very much like the Nintendo Switch, the console can even plug into your TV for big-screen gaming, though you need to supply an HDMI–to–mini-HDMI cable.
Jarrod Bentley contributed to the graphics of new game Wonderful Dizzy
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Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice A Staffordshire University security guard has helped revive a hugely popular video game 28 years after its last appearance.
Dizzy is set to return for his first completely new adventure in 26 years this coming week.
Inspired by L. Frank Baum’s
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,
Wonderful Dizzy has been designed by The Oliver Twins using traditional methods (plus a little help from Excel and Google Docs), while programming and graphic have been handled by the time behind the acclaimed remake of
Crystal Kingdom Dizzy.
“We first contacted this talented team when they rewrote Crystal Kingdom Dizzy from scratch, improving just about everything in the game,” said Philip Oliver. “We felt confident that if we designed a great new