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Portable post-Black Friday deals take off from Nintendo, PlayStation and Evercade

 While there's no sign of a discount on the PlayStation Portal or Xbox Ally, portable gamers can still get in on the Black Friday action. From handheld PC gaming devices to Nintendo, there's plenty on offer.  Update: Valve has jumped in with 20% off the Steam Deck LCD 256GB model (down to £279 in the UK) 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 Europe and US markets.  Not all deals have kicked in yet, but the official list is:  Up to 30% off all cartridges released before September 2025 20% off all hardware released before September 2025 US and Canada to receive 20% off all lines released before Sep 2025 Big names, including Evercade Alpha Street Fighter and Mega Man bartop arcade, Tomb Raider, all Super Pocke...
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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. 

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