Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 13th, 2024. It s Thursday today, and while it s not a particularly busy Thursday, it s a lot better than what we ve been dealing with for the last few days.
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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.