I've really been enjoying the indie heroes one, and it's great seeing those songbird homebrews on the lynx--but for my money, Xeno Crisis/Tanglewood is the best Evercade cart.
Great picks, John. I love them all. I especially love that Atari collection 1 because I never had a 7800 as kid and now I get to experience what I missed. Thanks for the video.
I agree with many of these picks. I really need to get the Indie Heroes Volume 1 cart still. The Piko Collection Volume 1 is really great stuff and one of my favorite carts. Another one I love is the Data East Volume 1 Collection. Glad to see Ninja Golf shown here in the Atari Collection 1, easily my favorite game on that cart. Great video again, John!
I'm still holding out hope they'll get the Namco cartridges playable on the VS. (But its not seeming like it) Piko 1 and Indie Heroes 1 have been some of my favourite cartridges thus far. Especially since they include alot of games that are either obscure or previously unreleased physically!
I hope this thing is as good as advertised. Preordered mine many moons ago and I just hope all of these delays are worth it. Thanks for highlighting these. After I burn thru the arcade games I'll probably look towards the Interplay collection and the Renovation collection coming soon.
I love my Evercade. I think my top five would be: 5) Atari Collection 1: It's's got so many games on it I never played. I completely skipped over Atari growing up, and this reintroduces me to so many classic games. 4) Jaleco Collection 1: I'm a sucker for Bases Loaded and City Connection, and there's a ton of other excellent choices on here that I enjoyed on my NES 3) Mega Cat 1: Just a perfect collection of indies from one of my favorite publishers. Coffee Crisis and Almost Hero alone are worth the cartridge cost, everything else is icing on the cake. 2) Piko Collection 1: Any company that dedicates themselves to the preservation and sharing of classic games lost to time immediately gets an A+ in my book. Getting to play Nightshade, which I'd loved as a kid but completely forgotten about made me giddy, and additional games like Tinhead, Water Margin, and 8 Eyes just make it one of the best on the console. 1) Technos Collection 1: For my money, this is far and away my most played and most loved. And that's without even looking at Double Dragon - River City Ransom, Crash and the Boys, Super Spike V'Ball, Super Dodge Ball - these are the games of my childhood. I cannot wait to play these on the Vs. when it comes in!
oh man! The Lynx collection might have sold me on this. I haven’t played Gates of Zendecon since I was 12 years old riding around in the back of my dads hideous Chevy Lumina van.
I’m loving Evercade , I agree that the indie heroes cartridge is probably the best . I’m really also enjoying the Intellivision cart as well and look forward to the 2nd one.
Another great video John 👍. Love that your covering the evercade again, such a under rated system for those like myself who love retro, indies and physical media. Also I'm a big lynx fan myself but sadly mine got stolen one year when I was at work 😢. Thankfully the evercade fills that void of loss.
I will definitely be purchasing one by next month and hopefully the handheld the following enjoy your episodes if you could do someone a PS Vita or PSP that would be cool
That Pico Collection looks fantastic. It's a shame that it's become a legacy cart now (i.e. no longer being produced) as it's made the price of this increase exponentially
Good top 5 Thanks again. Im realy glad you like flea :) i love that on homebrew war they included more characters from indie heroes. Henry the flea has the constantly jumping machinic in there too which adds some challenge.
Good video! I agree, that Indie Heroes Collection is one of the best cartridges for the Evercade systems! I really like the Evercade VS system. It plays great!
Be interested to see your top 5 now (if they've changed) with the arcade and renovation carts. Mine are: Gaelco, Dual cart, Mega Cat, Renovation, Piko 1
My Top 5: Piko 1 Namco 2 Indie Heroes Xeno Crisis/Tanglewood Lynx 2 I was pleasantly surprised on the Atari Lynx and Jaleco collections. They were quite good, and my expectations weren’t particularly high for them. I do not have Bitmap, Worms or Piko 2 since they didn’t pique my interest. Intellivsion is ordered, but not arrived, I do not plan on ordering Gremlin or Renovation. But by and large, I am very pleased with my collection. On the fence about the VS. I had an Atari 7800 growing up, so those games are of particular interest from a nostalgia perspective. SNES is my favorite console of all time.
Data East, Atari Collection 2, Piko Interactive 1 & Technos Collection 1. Data East for Fighter's History, Atari 2 for Bowling, Piko for Water Margin and Technos for River City Ransom. Sorry I only have a top four.
I see the Mega Cat Studios 1 cart listed into a lot of personal Top 5 for the Evercade. Different opinions are good, but honestly I don't understand why people love that Collection so much. Some games are really good, like Multidude, Old Towers, Super Painter and Tanzer but...ehm, Little Medusa is a complete copy of Kickle Cubicle (as Justice Duel is a complete copy of Joust), Creepy Brawlers becomes way too hard just after the 2nd match, Coffee Crisis has a cool concept but the final result is just disappointing (bad controls, mediocre sound effects), Log Jammers runs so fast that seems like a beta version of a finished game (it's waaaaay too fast, c'mon), but the worst of the bunch is Almost Hero (nice graphics, awesome musics but it has the worst control system ever experienced into a brawler, it's so bad that makes the game a totally frustrating experience). But...hey, that's just my opinion as a player. Indie Heroes and Piko 1 are the best: can't wait for a 2nd chapter of Indie Heroes and, of course, Renovation Collection. Cheers. :-)
I felt the exact same way about Mega Cats. There's a few good ones like you mentioned but the rest are horrible games worth skipping over. Everyone raved about Coffee Crisis but when I played it I realized how bad the controls, sound, hit detection and unfair difficult ruined it.
This is kinda off topic but because of the mention of Piko Interactive, I don't want to give my support to them as they been in a lot of flak lately of obtaining unreleased and prototype roms with force and abuse.
My favorite Evercade cart at the moment is Piko Collection 1 because I enjoy most of the games on that cart (especially Dragon View and Water Margin). I have Indie Heroes Collection 1 and I really enjoy the games on there, especially Anguna and Deadelus. However, after I updated my firmware on the regular Evercade, I noticed that the regular save feature on Anguna no longer works and I'm forced to use Save States to save my game. Since I downloaded that firmware, I've upgraded two more versions and I'm still having the same issue. I mentioned it to Evercade on FB a while back but no response. I don't know if anyone else is having the same issue I'm having. Did you have the same issue on your cart John? I'll continue to use Save States but I really would prefer to have a functioning in game save simply because I want to play the game the way it was originally intended. Great video! Also, I can't wait for Renovation Collection 1. Have a great one!
@@albertrodriguez9665 My experience getting one was a bit tricky. They sell them on Amazon and Best Buy. Amazon is usually the best place if you live in the US. However, be aware of a few things: - Blaze Entertainment (The company that makes Evercade) is a small company and produces games and systems in small batches. You may have to pre-order a console and wait for the next batch to ship. - They have publicly announced that the semiconductor shortage has slowed down production, putting the back one month plus on manufacturing and delivery. - They are located in England and it takes some time for the units to get to the US Also, I've unfortunately had to put up with product arriving really late (in some cases, a month or more) and in one instance, had to stop Amazon from cancelling my order. Hopefully, you do not have to fight with them on the phone just to get what you ordered. Had a major issue getting my copy of Indie Heroes especially. They did not deliver on the promised date and I had to keep checking up on them as to why my fully paid product did not arrive. Finally, I got it but it was over a month after the fact even though I pre-ordered it. I've spoken to Blaze in the past about this and they told me it has to do with how many units Amazon orders for their warehouses, especially on pre-orders. They end up not ordering enough for the batch and unfortunately, this is what happens. While I know it's frustrating, if you live in the US, sometimes you have to go through this so you are not paying scalper prices on eBay. BTW, do not spend more than $20 - $30 per cartridge. Anything higher than that is price gouging. The system is meant to be a budget console.
@@davidrin3566 thanks for the information you gave me I really appreciate it.. I live in the east coast of America and I never seen the evercade console or their games in any best buy store here, so I'll try Amazon then to buy it. How did you pay for your console? And did you pay the suggested retail price?$
@@albertrodriguez9665 I paid for it retail on Amazon. The trick is to get it when Amazon restocks. If you buy it from one of their vendors, you will most likely pay more
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My Top 5 1: Piko Collection 1 2: Gaelco Collection 1 3: Namco Collection 2 4: Jaleco Collection 1 5: Data East Collection 1 Runner-up best: Megacats 1 , Indie and Codemasters Worst 5: 1: Intellivision Collection 1 2: Atari Collection 1 3: Worms Collection 4: Piko Collection 2 5: Bitmap Bros 1 (based on non Amiga version of games used and value of only 5 games on cart) Runner-up worst: Interplay Collection 1
It seems like I'm in a minority of one here, but I'd like to point out something that's been bugging me since this cartridge was released. Every video I've ever watched on the Piko collections has the host pronouncing the name of the company as "Peeko," but the company's logo contains the mathematical symbol for pi. Are we sure it's not supposed to be pronounced "Pie-ko?" Sorry. But it drives me nuts when I see videos about Imagic games and the hosts pronounce the company's name "Eye-magic" like it's an Apple product. The correct pronunciation is "EM-magic" because the name is an amalgamation of the words "imagination" and "magic." It just seems to me that to mispronounce the name of a company is a disservice to the company. While I'm 100% certain of the Imagic pronunciation (check any of their old TV commercials to confirm), I'm not 100% sure about Pico, just 99.9% sure. I'm pretty sure the Pi symbol would indicate that "Pie-ko" would be how they wanted themselves to be known. Either way, another great video. Keep them coming!
@@johnhancockretro, I understand that. I've served in the army overseas. I was just wondering because of the Pi symbol. Also I was drunk when I wrote that. I honestly meant no offense. My sincerest apologies if it came across as insulting.
The cheap Chinese retro consoles are not only cheaper, but contain 1000's or retro games and better. To hell with do called licensed games these have. Your paying highly for the same thing can get from China miles cheaper. 8 games for a cartridge I'd rediculous when you can get a Chinese retro console for same price with 1000's of games.
So happy with Evercade. They are doing great. Can’t wait for the Renovation collection.
I made popcorn but you didn't tell me to grab it so now it's just sitting on my stove getting cold
I've really been enjoying the indie heroes one, and it's great seeing those songbird homebrews on the lynx--but for my money, Xeno Crisis/Tanglewood is the best Evercade cart.
Omg … California Games!! Dang, that’s an oldie but a goodie 🤩👍✨
The Lynx carts are my favorite. They're fantastic!
The lynx is super under rated. So many great games came on the system and many were arcade ports like ninja gaiden and xenomorph.
If this platform is successful, Blaze can open up in-house development studios and start funding the development of original games.
With the announcement of their new handheld and arcade carts I don't think they are far off now :D
Great picks, John. I love them all. I especially love that Atari collection 1 because I never had a 7800 as kid and now I get to experience what I missed. Thanks for the video.
I agree with many of these picks. I really need to get the Indie Heroes Volume 1 cart still. The Piko Collection Volume 1 is really great stuff and one of my favorite carts. Another one I love is the Data East Volume 1 Collection. Glad to see Ninja Golf shown here in the Atari Collection 1, easily my favorite game on that cart. Great video again, John!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
I'm still holding out hope they'll get the Namco cartridges playable on the VS. (But its not seeming like it) Piko 1 and Indie Heroes 1 have been some of my favourite cartridges thus far. Especially since they include alot of games that are either obscure or previously unreleased physically!
Oh man I’d be all over that Lynx line up. Never got to play that much
The lynx games are really good. Scrapyard dog was a fav of mine as a kid.
I have the Evercade handheld my VS console is suppose to be here in 5 days if it does not get delayed again. I cannot wait!
I hope this thing is as good as advertised. Preordered mine many moons ago and I just hope all of these delays are worth it. Thanks for highlighting these. After I burn thru the arcade games I'll probably look towards the Interplay collection and the Renovation collection coming soon.
I love my Evercade. I think my top five would be:
5) Atari Collection 1: It's's got so many games on it I never played. I completely skipped over Atari growing up, and this reintroduces me to so many classic games.
4) Jaleco Collection 1: I'm a sucker for Bases Loaded and City Connection, and there's a ton of other excellent choices on here that I enjoyed on my NES
3) Mega Cat 1: Just a perfect collection of indies from one of my favorite publishers. Coffee Crisis and Almost Hero alone are worth the cartridge cost, everything else is icing on the cake.
2) Piko Collection 1: Any company that dedicates themselves to the preservation and sharing of classic games lost to time immediately gets an A+ in my book. Getting to play Nightshade, which I'd loved as a kid but completely forgotten about made me giddy, and additional games like Tinhead, Water Margin, and 8 Eyes just make it one of the best on the console.
1) Technos Collection 1: For my money, this is far and away my most played and most loved. And that's without even looking at Double Dragon - River City Ransom, Crash and the Boys, Super Spike V'Ball, Super Dodge Ball - these are the games of my childhood. I cannot wait to play these on the Vs. when it comes in!
This is a very good thought out outstandingly great comment. I love this comment!!!
You go @squarepegs!!!
Can't find the Technos collection anywhere.
I love that you cover Evercade and your honesty about the product. Great choices as it's tough to narrow down to 5 carts
Even tho you didn't say it -
I grabbed some popcorn 🍿
Cheers!
oh man! The Lynx collection might have sold me on this. I haven’t played Gates of Zendecon since I was 12 years old riding around in the back of my dads hideous Chevy Lumina van.
I'm so pumped for evercade! I just got the VS and super pocket.
I pre-ordered my VS from Amazon long ago and it keep getting delayed. It recently updated to a March 1st delivery.
I’m loving Evercade , I agree that the indie heroes cartridge is probably the best . I’m really also enjoying the Intellivision cart as well and look forward to the 2nd one.
Great selection. I'm totally with you. Would only add the Xeno Crisis/Tanglewood and Codemasters carts.
I think my favourites so far are interplay collection 1and Data east collection 1 after that it's hard to choose.
Another great video John 👍. Love that your covering the evercade again, such a under rated system for those like myself who love retro, indies and physical media.
Also I'm a big lynx fan myself but sadly mine got stolen one year when I was at work 😢. Thankfully the evercade fills that void of loss.
I will definitely be purchasing one by next month and hopefully the handheld the following enjoy your episodes if you could do someone a PS Vita or PSP that would be cool
That Pico Collection looks fantastic. It's a shame that it's become a legacy cart now (i.e. no longer being produced) as it's made the price of this increase exponentially
Love your work. As usual, a great enteraining video.
Yay! John uploaded a video. Let’s go!
Good top 5
Thanks again. Im realy glad you like flea :)
i love that on homebrew war they included more characters from indie heroes. Henry the flea has the constantly jumping machinic in there too which adds some challenge.
Good video! I agree, that Indie Heroes Collection is one of the best cartridges for the Evercade systems! I really like the Evercade VS system. It plays great!
Nice picks John!
My favorite is Piko 1, followed by Mega Cats 1, and Mega Cats 2.
Planning to get an Evercade vs, the multi carts I’ve bought beforehand are Piko 1 and Jaleco.
Be interested to see your top 5 now (if they've changed) with the arcade and renovation carts. Mine are: Gaelco, Dual cart, Mega Cat, Renovation, Piko 1
I am considering this system, just because this will be the cheapest way that I can buy Lynx games.
Awesome overview, love my evercade
Grab’n popcorn=hit da bong
My Top 5:
Piko 1
Namco 2
Indie Heroes
Xeno Crisis/Tanglewood
Lynx 2
I was pleasantly surprised on the Atari Lynx and Jaleco collections. They were quite good, and my expectations weren’t particularly high for them.
I do not have Bitmap, Worms or Piko 2 since they didn’t pique my interest. Intellivsion is ordered, but not arrived, I do not plan on ordering Gremlin or Renovation.
But by and large, I am very pleased with my collection. On the fence about the VS. I had an Atari 7800 growing up, so those games are of particular interest from a nostalgia perspective. SNES is my favorite console of all time.
Water margin IS Knights of the rounds from capcom
Data East, Atari Collection 2, Piko Interactive 1 & Technos Collection 1. Data East for Fighter's History, Atari 2 for Bowling, Piko for Water Margin and Technos for River City Ransom. Sorry I only have a top four.
Found a yellow sweater boxed master system complete with gun and glasses. Whatcha think?
Please do greats, if not already, like ninja gaiden, shinobi, bad dudes, contra, etc…
I see the Mega Cat Studios 1 cart listed into a lot of personal Top 5 for the Evercade.
Different opinions are good, but honestly I don't understand why people love that Collection so much.
Some games are really good, like Multidude, Old Towers, Super Painter and Tanzer but...ehm, Little Medusa is a complete copy of Kickle Cubicle (as Justice Duel is a complete copy of Joust), Creepy Brawlers becomes way too hard just after the 2nd match, Coffee Crisis has a cool concept but the final result is just disappointing (bad controls, mediocre sound effects), Log Jammers runs so fast that seems like a beta version of a finished game (it's waaaaay too fast, c'mon), but the worst of the bunch is Almost Hero (nice graphics, awesome musics but it has the worst control system ever experienced into a brawler, it's so bad that makes the game a totally frustrating experience).
But...hey, that's just my opinion as a player.
Indie Heroes and Piko 1 are the best: can't wait for a 2nd chapter of Indie Heroes and, of course, Renovation Collection.
Cheers. :-)
I felt the exact same way about Mega Cats. There's a few good ones like you mentioned but the rest are horrible games worth skipping over. Everyone raved about Coffee Crisis but when I played it I realized how bad the controls, sound, hit detection and unfair difficult ruined it.
@@razorramon123 yeah, you're right!
Coffee Crisis is a disappointing experience...that game is really bad.
This is kinda off topic but because of the mention of Piko Interactive, I don't want to give my support to them as they been in a lot of flak lately of obtaining unreleased and prototype roms with force and abuse.
Do they offer some pc engine card games ? I would love to play super Bonx and bloody Wolf
I've played ninja golf and while it's fun it feels like an unfinished game. It doesn't feel like a complete game.
My favorite Evercade cart at the moment is Piko Collection 1 because I enjoy most of the games on that cart (especially Dragon View and Water Margin).
I have Indie Heroes Collection 1 and I really enjoy the games on there, especially Anguna and Deadelus. However, after I updated my firmware on the regular Evercade, I noticed that the regular save feature on Anguna no longer works and I'm forced to use Save States to save my game. Since I downloaded that firmware, I've upgraded two more versions and I'm still having the same issue. I mentioned it to Evercade on FB a while back but no response. I don't know if anyone else is having the same issue I'm having. Did you have the same issue on your cart John? I'll continue to use Save States but I really would prefer to have a functioning in game save simply because I want to play the game the way it was originally intended.
Great video! Also, I can't wait for Renovation Collection 1. Have a great one!
Where can I buy the evercade console?? I can't find the console or the games for that matter 🕹️
@@albertrodriguez9665 My experience getting one was a bit tricky. They sell them on Amazon and Best Buy. Amazon is usually the best place if you live in the US. However, be aware of a few things:
- Blaze Entertainment (The company that makes Evercade) is a small company and produces games and systems in small batches. You may have to pre-order a console and wait for the next batch to ship.
- They have publicly announced that the semiconductor shortage has slowed down production, putting the back one month plus on manufacturing and delivery.
- They are located in England and it takes some time for the units to get to the US
Also, I've unfortunately had to put up with product arriving really late (in some cases, a month or more) and in one instance, had to stop Amazon from cancelling my order. Hopefully, you do not have to fight with them on the phone just to get what you ordered. Had a major issue getting my copy of Indie Heroes especially. They did not deliver on the promised date and I had to keep checking up on them as to why my fully paid product did not arrive. Finally, I got it but it was over a month after the fact even though I pre-ordered it.
I've spoken to Blaze in the past about this and they told me it has to do with how many units Amazon orders for their warehouses, especially on pre-orders. They end up not ordering enough for the batch and unfortunately, this is what happens. While I know it's frustrating, if you live in the US, sometimes you have to go through this so you are not paying scalper prices on eBay. BTW, do not spend more than $20 - $30 per cartridge. Anything higher than that is price gouging. The system is meant to be a budget console.
@@davidrin3566 thanks for the information you gave me I really appreciate it.. I live in the east coast of America and I never seen the evercade console or their games in any best buy store here, so I'll try Amazon then to buy it. How did you pay for your console? And did you pay the suggested retail price?$
@@albertrodriguez9665 I paid for it retail on Amazon. The trick is to get it when Amazon restocks. If you buy it from one of their vendors, you will most likely pay more
Tanzer look s very cool. What console was it on?
Genesis
Get the entire VS set on Amazon for £160 this week...
The VS console, 4 pads and 10 carts, bargain!
Namco...splatterhouse 2 & 3.
Physical media forever
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Water Margin is a rip-off of knights of the round...
My Top 5
1: Piko Collection 1
2: Gaelco Collection 1
3: Namco Collection 2
4: Jaleco Collection 1
5: Data East Collection 1
Runner-up best: Megacats 1 , Indie and Codemasters
Worst 5:
1: Intellivision Collection 1
2: Atari Collection 1
3: Worms Collection
4: Piko Collection 2
5: Bitmap Bros 1 (based on non Amiga version of games used and value of only 5 games on cart)
Runner-up worst: Interplay Collection 1
It seems like I'm in a minority of one here, but I'd like to point out something that's been bugging me since this cartridge was released.
Every video I've ever watched on the Piko collections has the host pronouncing the name of the company as "Peeko," but the company's logo contains the mathematical symbol for pi.
Are we sure it's not supposed to be pronounced "Pie-ko?"
Sorry. But it drives me nuts when I see videos about Imagic games and the hosts pronounce the company's name "Eye-magic" like it's an Apple product. The correct pronunciation is "EM-magic" because the name is an amalgamation of the words "imagination" and "magic."
It just seems to me that to mispronounce the name of a company is a disservice to the company.
While I'm 100% certain of the Imagic pronunciation (check any of their old TV commercials to confirm), I'm not 100% sure about Pico, just 99.9% sure.
I'm pretty sure the Pi symbol would indicate that "Pie-ko" would be how they wanted themselves to be known.
Either way, another great video. Keep them coming!
I can tell you this: pronunciation of names don’t always follow language rules.
@@johnhancockretro, I understand that. I've served in the army overseas. I was just wondering because of the Pi symbol. Also I was drunk when I wrote that. I honestly meant no offense. My sincerest apologies if it came across as insulting.
Is it just me that thinks all these games are sh1t?
Just you
The cheap Chinese retro consoles are not only cheaper, but contain 1000's or retro games and better. To hell with do called licensed games these have. Your paying highly for the same thing can get from China miles cheaper. 8 games for a cartridge I'd rediculous when you can get a Chinese retro console for same price with 1000's of games.