First Evercade 2023 carts announced, C64 and Toaplan 2

 My first evening out of the year and Evercade decides to drop two new launches. So, I'm scrambling to catch up. 

The C64 Collection 2 and Toaplan Arcade 2 will arrive at the end of April, with pre-orders going live on February 17th 2023, those pesky supply chain gremlins hopefully having cleared now. And, while I don't expect the folk at Blaze to up the pace much, hopefully this is the start of a very steady release cadence for the year (updated release list). 

Having already posted what I would love to see on any Toaplan 2 collection, it is great to see Fire Shark and Twin Cobra in the mix, along with: 

• Demon's World
• Hellfire
• Rally Bike
• Twin Hawk
• Wardner

That's a whole lot of Tate Mode shmup goodness, and a few curios to even things out, with room left over for a Toaplan Collection 3, hopefully. 

On the C64 side, the first c64 cart still gets plenty of play and C64 Collection 2 will hit harder with timeless classics Uridium, Cybernoid and Nebulus among the 14 games. The full list is: 

• California Games
• Cybernoid
• Firelord
• Impossible Mission II
• Insects in Space
• Mission Impossibubble
• Nebulus
• Pitstop II
• Slayer
• Street Sports Basketball
• Sword of Fargoal
• Uridium
• World Games
• Zamzara

If you're not into Evercade yet, the handheld and mini consoles are great low-cost ways to get into legit retro gaming. With the joy of proper boxed copies with all sorts of goodies and manuals in the case.