Peteykins

Off topic but it seems kind of strange that Time Extension isn't covering John Hancock getting rid of his huge collection? Is it because he's American? Or because some people have big issues with him? Seems like something this website would cover.

Love the Super Pocket, but that is a very small screen for Banjo! I have the Taito one, and it's kind of great, but the screen is just too small for a lot of the games.

Kind of a baffling device. Is the knob also a joystick? If so, it doesn't look fun to use. Also: "knob" isn't nearly as hilarious to Americans as it is for British people.

Oh no, Sonic the Hedgehog 1 and 2 are such rare, hard to find games!

LMAO, so many people are going to strenuously insist that the Virtual Boy is great and they love it. And then maybe a month later it won't be spoken of again.

Place looks wonderful, and if they've been open 8 years, they've obviously figured out what so many other "in business for two years, max" arcades didn't. I wonder what the secret sauce is?

Does it really play from the cartridge or does it just rip the ROM and then emulate it?

"...already been talked about to death" is extremely accurate.

@KayFiOS
Easily explained! transparent plastics are always more fragile and brittle than opaque ones.

Good for them, but playing Doom on an Evercade doesn't seem like a great way to play it.

The copyright professional in me says, "Wow, clearing all the rights must have cost a fortune," but the realistic side of me knows that they didn't clear anything and are using the "cross your fingers" technique, LOL.

"This is more than a watch"

Well, no, it isn't.

I found one of these in a sidewalk "free, please take" cardboard box on the sidewalk (big city living!). It's kind of great but the screens are so tiny. I'm ambivalent about it. Great idea for parents of young children, as the broken hinge issue is totally eliminated.

@MontyMole Oh yeah, totally! I was not trying to excuse them. I have to warn people not to do similar things every single day!

@ihaveallthecoins "No one seems to learn this lesson."
Well, you hit the nail on the head. Nobody learns this lesson because copyright and IP laws are generally only taught to lawyers. You can't "learn the lesson" if you aren't taught the lesson! Since we are all swimming in a sea of copyrighted materials, these "lessons" should be taught to all students. I feel bad for people who stumble into problems like this due to total ignorance of how IP laws work. There needs to be broader education on the topic. EDIT: And in case you're wondering, yes, I work extensively with copyright issues at a major art museum.

These graphics don't look like an improvement at all. Glad Arcade Archives put out the great arcade version already.

Looks like fun but, all in all, it is just another rom hack.

Oh good, at last I can play Mappy.

I have to admit that I was a skeptic about this endeavor, but this sounds really impressive.

So glad they're releasing this obscure, little-known and hard to find game.

Ooh, I kind of love janky 16-bit pinball! I'll probably get this.

OK, so we've reached the level of handheld device saturation that they're releasing parodies now.

Love seeing the low-poly rendering of Van Gogh's "Sorrowing Old Man".

So now he's even lying about his own name, LOL.

@Eocene84 I work extensively with copyright law, and I can easily answer your question: it is because people do not understand copyright law... even a little tiny bit.

Gives stern look to child

"We already have Mega Man at home."

@nocdaes Technically true, but still done as a performative "not enough for everybody" hype drop.

I wish Analogue was a company that manufactures a product, and then you order it from their website, and then a week later you receive it in the mail. You know, like normal companies that manufacture things.

Yeah, the Super Pocket is a much better value, but some of these arcade titles are not ideal on such a small screen. With the New Zealand Story, for instance, it's really hard to see the tiny projectile pixels. So this thing seems like a much, much better way to play these games. That said, can't imagine buying one of these, LOL. PopetheRev28 is right that picking up the console collections is a much better idea.

@Paranoimia
The article you just commented on literally shows and describes products made by the Italian company.

I kind of regret picking up the Taito Super Pocket and should have known something like these collections would come to the Evercade. The Super Pocket is neat, but the screen is a bit too small for some of these arcade titles.

@Metazoxan
It was 100% NOT ahead of its time. It was based on stereoscopic slide viewers from the late 19th/early 20th century, LOL.

It wasn't "ahead of its time"; it was poorly designed, and was literally a pain to use. A lot of people who never tried to play one are going to find out soon enough, I guess.

I guess they'll be reviving Ninjabread Man next.

The only thing I like about Gizmondo is that anybody who gets one has to clean off the gooey coating.

It reminds me of Taco Bell, the way the same ingredients get juggled around slightly to make "new" menu items.

This looks so much like the Anbernic device I bought, like, 8 years ago.

I bought Bubble Bobble 4 Friends when it came out and... it was OK. Nothing to write home about and so much visual clutter. It didn't really seem like Bubble Bobble.

At last, the Mega 2DS nobody asked for.

It's becoming increasingly obvious that nothing of value will come of this.

@The_Nintend_Pedant
I think the trend is "opening a retro arcade and going out of business within one year," which, obviously, remains to be seen.

I was a Mac user back in the day, so I have very fond memories of Hexen, one of the few good FPS games available for the platform. So, so good.

Gross, looks awful.

Doing something like this is one thing, but trying to get attention for it and, for instance, making a trailer, is just asking for it.

@KingMike I assume it was done on a work-for-hire basis, and Way Forward retained zero rights for their work, as would be typical for licensed products like this. I assume the same is true for their excellent Wendy the Witch Game Boy game, which has never been re-released.

Can't imagine anybody paying that much for a reskinned mobile game from, like, ten years ago. That their original investors haven't sued is a real miracle. And everybody still involved with the company is hardcore MAGA.

So the entire thing is people looking just to the side of the camera and talking, presumably intercut with game footage. Sounds utterly thrilling.

I've got the Taito Super Pocket and it's superb.

Good luck, man. Hopefully he won't go all Amico on us.

This is where we pretend that meh old games were good old games.