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Festive portable deals take off from Xbox Ally, Nintendo, PlayStation and Evercade

This page started for black Friday but has moved on as the deals come and go. I will update across the festive sales, as new portable hardware deals appear. I won't hype them as "pocket change" or "fire sale" like some sites, because that's bollocks.  December deals :  Evercade has 30% off various hardware, depending on the store, check the blog for details .  PlayStation Portal is currently £20 off on Amazon UK  (another £10 off for refurbs)  Update: Valve has jumped in with 20% off the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model (down to £279 in the UK) Update: Xbox Ally has various deals (pretty short-lived, but likely getting cut again for the post Christmas sale).  Update: PlayStation Portal has £20 off the range, bringing the white and black models down to £179, and 30th Anniversary Edition to £189. (Look out for another 5% off at checkout!)  First up is  Evercade offering a clutch of offers on hardware and games on Amazon and across other stores in Europ...

Evercade announces first four Arcade carts

The Evercade story started out with plenty of NES and Atari VCS ports of famous arcade games, but the little handheld and the upcoming console version clearly have the power to run 8-bit and 16-bit arcade originals. 

The developers at Blaze were hinting that retro arcade games were coming not long after last year's launch, and now it looks like we will see the full potential of the Evercade. The company has just announced its first batch, from the very start of gaming in Pong to some pretty modern looking titles. The first four Arcade carts revealed are... 


Wow, there's a lot of them, some 37 titles by my count! And I like the purple to distinguish them from the home versions. These represent the final carts for 2021 from Evercade, but there's still more news to come, with pack-in content for the Vs console. 

Check out the video for a closer look with Atari, Data East, Gaelco and Technos represented. Some of them are already on Evercade in home console form, but I consider that practice for the real thing and there's plenty of new games and titles that are totally new to me. 



Releasing in November alongside the Vs console, get ready for a retro Christmas.

Technos (By ArcSystemWorks) 
The CombaTribes (1990) 
BlockOut (1989) 
Battle Lane V (1986) 
Double Dragon II: The Revenge (1988) 
Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone (1990)
Mania Challenge (1986) 
Minky Monkey (1982) 
Mysterious Stones (1984) 

Data East 
Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja (1988)
Breakthru (1986) 
Burger Time (1982)
Chain Reaction  (1995)
Dark Seal (1990)
Darwin 4078 (1986) 
Lock and Chase (1981) 
Sly Spy (1989) 
TumblePop (1991) 
Wizard Fire (1990)

Gaelco 
Alligator Hunt (1994) 
Biomechanical Toy (1995) 
Glass (1993) 
Snowboarding Championship (1996)
Thunder Hoop (1992)
World Rally (1993) 

Atari 
Asteroids Deluxe (1981) 
Canyon Bomber (1979) 
Centipede (1980)
Crystal Castles (1983)
Liberator (1982)
Lunar Lander (1979)
Millipede (1982)
Missile Command (1980)
Night Driver (1976)
Pong (1972)
Sky Diver (1978)
SuperBreakout (1978)
Warlords (1980)

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