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The game looks pretty cool but 75 hours!?!? Wow that's a lot! It's why I can't get into modern RPGs as they tend to take too much time and I'm often distracted by other games.

@04:24 Nice, two for the price of one! VS & EXP for a similar price as an Alpha today! 😃

I’m pretty sure I have everything I need to build that 8 bit arcade. If I were ever gonna make a freakade I would just be missing the arcade stick . This is a fantastic video.

Great list especially picking Red Dead Redemption 2. Got to meet Roger Clark at a convention and he's such a cool dude.

Nice list! yeah it's not easy putting a top list together and you have a really fun mix of old and new and certainly some unique titles you don't see mentioned too often in these kinds of lists. I just watched someone else hyping up Faxanadu so I have to be sure to give that one a try. I had a cart of it as a kid but my buddy and I didn't understand what to do and gave up quickly. For me, I've been having fun putting together favorites lists for individual consoles for a while now but only recently tried making a universal list. Here's my top 20. Halo CE Final Fantasy VII Castlevania SOTN Zelda a Link to the Past Super Metroid Beyond Oasis Gun Star Heroes Castlevania Rondo of Blood Streets of Rage 2 Legend of Zelda Castlevania Bloodlines Ghouls and Ghosts Halo 2 Halo 4 Halo 3 Thunder Force 3 Xeno Crisis Metal Slug 3 Metal Slug X Phantasy Star IV

Awsome list!

Really good video man. I totally agree about golden axe btw. I’m assuming you’ve also played legend of Silk Road on the evercade? I adore that game as well which is a golden axe clone.. or was it the other way around?

Great list here’s mine 1. World of Warcraft 2. Oblivion 3. Skyrim 4. Halo #1 5. Ocarina of Time 6. Vice city 7. Super Mario 3 8. Super Mario World 9. Madden 10. Mortal Kombat 2 This week 😂.

Great video Game Freak! I'm one of the few people that actually enjoyed Golden Axe Beast Rider. Surprised to see some modern games in there although Red Dead Redemption 2 was always going to be there before the video started lol. 😎 I can't make a top 10 list on the fly but here are some standout games I've loved over the years. Ikari Warriors - C64 (European Version) Dungeon Master - Amiga Ghouls'n Ghosts - Megadrive Daytona USA - Sega Saturn Doom - PS1 Quake 3 - Dreamcast Shiren the Wanderer - DSi XL Doom 3 - Classic Xbox OutRun2 & OutRun2006 - Classic Xbox Risen - Xbox 360 Pinball Arcade - Xbox 360

Used to love going to your house and watch you play Resident Evil before I had my own PlayStation. And when I finally got one it was the first game I bought! Good list 👍🏻

The og God of war games are my favorites. God of war 1-3, God of war ascension, God of war chains of olympus and God of war ghost of sparta. Ive played the new ones but i always go back to the originals. The gameplay is better to me.

Golden Axe is so good. Its been awhile since ive played. It got announced last year that golden axe is coming back but no release date yet. Great picks. Retro games are the best.

Inspired by your awesome Freakade I picked up a 15.6" portable monitor with built in speakers, placed it on a crate with my Evercade VS underneath, hooked up to my modified arcade stick with Sanwa components and now I have my very own Jaycade Alpha :-) Keep up the awesome work and thanks again for the inspiration!

At least it has the 2 cart sockets so it can play alot of games, but the price is way too high still.

The GameFreak, I'm glad you got your Arcade1Up countercades on sale, I did as well, however, Arcade1Up countercades retail between around $180 - $230 when they first come out (prices displayed on Arcade1up's site, not retailers advertised prices). I think I may have seen a few launch at $150, but don't quote me on that. Arcade1Up's first countercade retailed at $230 and that was back in 2019. Now, over the years I've seen Arcade1Up drop the retail on some of these, never below $149, but they have been known to also raise their retail prices on a whim. I've been unfortunate enough to own several of their countercades, thinking they might fit into my Home Arcade ecosystem, but they never did. And one of the main reasons was I never got one with a good screen. The bigger ones, the original ones sold by Arcade1up all had horrible washout. The smaller ones, like the size of the Ms. Pac-Man you own, all had horrible uniformity issues and unacceptable discoloration. I only have Namco ones with vertical screen orientation, so I can't speak on the Marvel Super Heroes one you have, though I've heard the screen on that one is excellent. I also can't speak on the Ms. Pac-Man version you have as it's a different skew from the one I have (I have the baby blue one sold from QVC). All I can tell you is, the display quality has been horrendous on everyone I've got. As for playing on these tiny machines, everything feels too cramped to me, so the Evercade Alpha isn't of interest either. The Alpha does look like it might be higher quality than an Arcade1Up, but we'll have to see. I don't think anyone should pay more than $100 for a countercade, even one's with expandable game capability via cartridges. The most I've paid for an Arcade1Up countercade was $130 and the lowest was $50. Even with a good display, and even if the Evercade Alpha hit at $100 or less, the downgrade in gaming feel isn't worth it for me. But not everyone is in the same situation, and some enjoy playing on these smaller machines, so I'm glad there are options for a wide variety of players. I feel fortunate to have the means and space to build my own Home Arcade with 3/4 scale machines. If that wasn't the case, I think these countercades would've appealed to me more. vgv

Thanks for this informative video. The size comparison to your Ms. Pac-Man bartop really shows us what to expect for these Alpha units. I have the Evercade Vs., the OG handheld, and both Super Pockets, but $200+ for this bartop is just a tad out of my price range. Cut the cost in half and then I might bite.

Really cool video !!!! 🔥

No HDMI out in 2024 is the deal breaker. Wtf was they thinking about. That price is Re Tard Ed

Thanks for sharing this info. I've now got a good idea of the actual size of the Alpha. Keep up the awesome work!

If people look at the facts regarding Evercade across the years since launch then Blaze have been pushing and testing the fence to see what they can get away with with every move they have made. Nothing will change in their attitude.

I preordered the mega man one with better controls. Cos I want it to last. Agreed if it only had the six games I wouldn't be interested, but the fact it can put my carts in, and the Namco ones work on it, was the deciding factor. Cheers for the dimensions etc that has definitely helped me visualise it better 😁 The only bar top arcade I have is the one with the metal slug games on, and loads of fighting games I'll never play lol, im shit at fighting games. The neo geo one. With the extra controllers etc.

El f300 elite NO me funciona

Thank you for this video. Was exacly the info i needed for making a decision..

It has an 8 inch screen and no hdmi out.... pass

At first I considered getting one till I factored the size, the price their going to charge and funny they never mentioned anything about a shipping charge ? This would push this into the $300 range and it just doesn't add up to me ? And I thought Blaze created Evercade to be affordable for those who wanted to get into retro gaming ? I don't really care for the preloaded games their offering and think they could of left those off and sold the mini arcade as is. Even better if they would have sold them in kit form and allow the buyer to choose either standard or upgraded hardware in their purchase. Could of bought the price down even more if the made them to run off of the VS much in the way you created your arcade cabinet . And knowing Blazes win/loss record of things breaking down, overheating & bricking up with having parts on hand would of allowed the user to fix their mini arcades when the need arises. As it stands now if these mini arcades break down how is Blaze going to deal with that ? You know its going to happen sooner or later so will those be stuck with paper weights when it happens ?????

Alpha is definitely a rip off, with just 6 games on it, no online multiplayer. I will wait til it's on discount, cos I know alot people aren't gonna purchase this just to play 6 games on a small screen. They will rather play on a big monitor/tv instead, or online on Fightcade. Only collector gonna purchase em. No :- HDMI output, built in battery, authentic wooden replica like Numskull. They got the screen in inches and dimension in mm 🤣😂😄 dumb

Nice one Game Freak! This was a good move as I've seen people say, "it will be a good display item on a shelf" like wft? They must be thinking it's the size of a Micro Player or something. I've never seen anyone put a 14" portable CRT TV on a shelf so good luck with that lol. 😃 I did the honours and got a deluxe Street Fighter on pre-order, with 100's of games on carts to mess with those controls need to last. UK homes are tiny so this size is more suited but I wish the screen was bigger. Cheers Game Freak! 👍

Yeah that's too small. It sucks I want evercade to succeed. But I feel like this is gonna hit them a little hard

It’s actually larger than I thought it would be. And it is supposed to have better quality components than the 1ups. Plus it plays evercade carts. I think the $200 mark is going to be fair, but $150 would have been the sweet spot.

They're all too small for me. I would totally get into the Evercade ecosystem if they made at least a 3/4 home arcade size. Then i would probably get that and the other systems

meh. Vs and a fight stick works great.

Wow.....thanks for putting this thing in perspective for us Americans. I've on the fence for this, but after seeing how big it's actually going to be, I'm real hesitant now. The only draw for me would be the cartridge slots....but I don't know now. This shit seems a bit too small for $230+ tax.

Thanks for the video. It's helpful to see an actual object to get a better sense and yeah, that's pretty much spot on. I still can't believe they didn't include an HDMI out and that you your only option is to play on that screen. Aren't arcade games meant to be played with friends and isn't multiplayer and important component? Yet we have all these good Capcom games that you can't play on your VS.

Have you used the 8bitdo arcade stick? I'm thinking about maybe getting one for my VS, I also love that it comes with a plug in bluetooth dongle, to work wirelessly on an Evercade. I just wonder how well the buttons feel on it.

Thank you for making this video man. I seriously do also hope that people buy these, but I hope that videos like this will help them know what they're getting into for that price, rather than possibly giving it a bad review after they pick one up thinking that it was larger. I think that another model with a better choice of 1 player titles and an HDMI out so that you could hook it up to a TV, plug in some controllers or arcade sticks and play it like a VS system could really be pretty awesome. I just feel like if they're already going for over $200, that the little bit of added cost for an HDMI out would have been worth it for the people already set on spending that much $ purchasing these.

Dude, that's crazy! I've seen a lot of people saying that they're going to order one of the Alpha's for a more "Authentic arcade experience", but I couldn't imagine having a serious 2 player Street Fighter match on that little thing. Maybe you could get away with it and have some fun with one of the 2 player beat em ups on the Mega Man cabinet. If I was to buy one, I'd get the Mega Man, but it's definitely not worth the money for me since I already have a VS system. Yeah, it will look cool as hell on a shelf, but so will my Bad Dudes mini arcade that I just bought off Five Below for only $20.

A lot of the cost is the VS inside

Thanks for doing this video man. I still want to try to get the Alpha if I can. But it does make me think about it more. But if I can't get one. I'm not going to worry about it. Great video.

Interesting looking game. It reminds me a bit of Dark Star One that was on xbox360, that's all in space though. Thanks for showing us! 👍

I actually just ordered this, it'll be here in an hour or two. I've been dying for a game like this!

I never played the first Streets of Rage game before. The 2nd one was my first one I ever played and owned. I'll have to check out the 1st one as well. Looks fun.

Good video and really superb pick out of the retro basket! Those whip girls that were bitches was SOR2. I also have a soft spot for SOR1 over SOR2 but both great games! Unlucky not completing it but you gave us a good run and plenty of tunes to enjoy! 🙂👍 The only other bit of news this week, Blaze has hit the 1 million carts sold mark. And some CEO guy from Edios has joined Blaze as a No.2 of the company and has experience in expanding companies to grow bigger. If you Google "Evercade" and hit the NEWS tab it should list a link to this story.

Kind of a side note, did you ever do a favorites style of video? Favorite games, genres, consoles, controllers, etc? I have some good ideas of what you like and don't like but if you don't have a video like that I'd enjoy hearing some more conversation on those topics.

Oh it's a good night in the retro basket. Genesis is always welcome and Streets of Rage?!? Phew, it's a good night. I personally prefer 2 over 1 and SOR2 is something like my 8th favorite game of all time. I never got into 3 but ended up picking up an English version of Bare Knuckle 3 which is much, much better and if it wasn't for the very terrible music (such a surprise from a Streets of Rage game) it might be contending with 2 in my favorites list.

Yeah man. Your arcade is the ultimate version and Evercade's Alpha is the junior version.