Evercade announces Toaplan Arcade 4 retro game collection

It’s been quite a day for retro gaming news, but the things that really stuck out for me were all Evercade flavoured. Not only is the Toaplan Arcade 4 cartridge coming before the end of the year, the new Super Pocket consoles are out today.

Keep reading to find out all about it.

Table of Contents

• What’s in Toaplan Arcade 4?

• Atari and Technos Super Pockets are now available

• Game over!

What’s in Toaplan Arcade 4?

As you’ll have gathered from the headline, the Toaplan Arcade 4 collection has been announced, which you can pre-order from October 30th. The collection should be shipping in December 2024.

The collection boasts 6 games:

• Dogyun

• Grind Stormer

• Knuckle Bash

• Snow Bros 2

• Pipi and Bibi’s

• Sky Shark (console version, rather than arcade)

All 6 titles are multiplayer, and with 3 shoot ‘em ups, 1 beat ‘em up, and 2 platformers, it represents a good mix of games and a great addition to the existing Toaplan carts. The cartridge seems to be a standard release, so should retail for around £17.99.

Atari and Technos Super Pockets are now available

As if that wasn’t enough, the Evercade family expanded today with the arrival of the Technos and Atari Super Pockets. These are compact, portable game systems produced by Blaze Entertainment’s HyperMegaTech, and they all run Evercade cartridges.

However, these consoles have some significant differences. They don’t get Game of the Month, but they do have games preinstalled. The Capcom and Taito models launched in 2023, and they were so successful that they’ve been followed up with two more colourful editions (three, if you count the limited “wood-finish” Atari model).

The Super Pocket Technos Edition features 15 preinstalled titles:

• Double Dragon (Arcade)

• Double Dragon II: The Revenge (Arcade)

• Double Dragon 3 -The Rosetta Stone (Arcade)

• Block Out (Arcade)

• The Combatribes (Arcade)

• Minky Monkey (Arcade)

• Mysterious Stones: Dr John’s Adventure (Arcade)

• Renegade (Arcade)

• Super Dodge Ball (Arcade)

• Super Double Dragon (16-bit)

• Double Dragon (8-bit)

• Double Dragon (8-bit handheld)

• River City Ransom (8-bit)

• Crash ‘N’ The Boys: Street Challenge (8-bit)

• Super Spike V’Ball (8-bit)

Meanwhile, the Super Pocket Atari Edition features an incredible 50 arcade and console titles:

A Super Pocket console is small enough to fit in your jeans back pocket, and in theory will play all of the Evercade carts (assuming you have an easy method to carry them all in your other pocket…)

Game over!

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