Episode 602: Evercade
Added 2024-03-25 12:06:18 +0000 UTCI’ve been a fan of Evercade for a while now and this episode has been something of a long time coming. I was concerned to some extent that I like Evercade a bit too much, and that any interview would be essentially me saying “why are you so great?” over and over again, but I think this turned out more interesting than that.
If you’re not familiar with Evercade, it’s a system that primarily sells itself on compilation cartridges, a few of which are discussed here. What drew me to the whole thing, of course, was the likes of The Oliver Twins Collection and the later Bitmap Brothers/Codemasters sets. It’s not just that these are pretty laser-focused in appealing to me, it’s that the games simply aren’t available on any other contemporary system.
Hopefully Evercade will keep releasing cartridges both niche and broad in appeal; I never thought the DOS Duke Nukem games would get anything like the attention they were given here, so I’ve got my eyes perpetually on their new releases. That said, I’m running out of pipe dreams. Maybe if they got the Miner Willy games on a cart, somehow? That’d be neat. Though with 64-bit games having landed on the system now, the sky is the limit. Though we’re probably not getting Castlevania…
Edits by Greg Leahy. Art by Leeann Hamilton.
02:18 - Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered: Menu
16:31 - Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered: Episode Results (Duke 1)
27:37 - Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered: Opening (Duke 2)
42:47 - Duke Nukem: Time to Kill: Present Time
52:43 - Glover (N64): Bonus Level | Sküljagger: Revolt of the Westicans: Main Theme
1:07:43 - Dizzy the Adventurer: Title Theme
Closing - Duke Nukem 1+2 Remastered: Credits
Comments
I had to get an evercade exp after listening to this episode. Time to Kill is still really fun and Total Meltdown is nice (even if I miss some jumps due to the choppy framerate) And since the Exp came with lots of capcom games I tried Mercs for the first time. And it RULES!! Gonna give Glover a go later today. And Boogerman! Don't know about Sword of Sodan though. Maybe for a laugh if nothing else 😅😁 Thinking of getting a VS too btw 😄
Mattias Österholm
2024-04-27 05:27:23 +0000 UTCDude introduces himself as Neeko and the Brits call him Nikko the whole episode 😅
Ken Hoyt
2024-04-02 17:52:31 +0000 UTCDuke always wins
John McGrath
2024-03-31 00:42:34 +0000 UTCMaybe I was too hasty to judge Piko! If Evercade are lending a hand ;) to fix up Glover, heh.
TheLupineOne
2024-03-27 21:25:23 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed this episode had my eye on the Evercade for a while. Now really considering picking one up…
litax874
2024-03-27 06:38:03 +0000 UTC
