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Bitmap Brothers collection heads to Evercade

 A lot of the Evercade carts have some classics, some curios and the odd uhh? game among them. But this is probably as close as Evercade has come so far to hitting a solid gold AAA effort. 

Not only does it show that Evercade is listening, The Bitmaps came up as a suggestion when they were looking for ideas, it shows another step up in quality acquisitions. The Bitmap Brothers Collection 1 packs in five legendary titles for the handheld (and upcoming Vs console): 

  • The Chaos Engine
  • Speedball
  • Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe
  • Speedball 2100 (PlayStation)
  • Xenon 2: Megablast


The questions are already flying about which versions we'll get, guess time will tell on that question, with the Amiga versions usually the definitive ones, but more likely SNES/Mega Drive ones on the cart. 

I guess its a shame the original Xenon is absent and Gods was recently remastered by someone else, so there may be rights issues. But, there's plenty of scope for further collections and even so, this is a cart I would play the heck out of until the end of time. 

The Bitmap's join other great British development talent coming to the Evercade, including the Worms series from Team 17 and The Oliver Twins/Codemaster's Dizzy collection. 

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