Review: The Evercade Vs is a solid retro system but we’re not sure who it’s for
With each year that passes, the number of ways to play retro games continues to grow.
From the countless mini consoles now available, to more accurate FPGA hardware recreations, to retro compilations released on modern systems, anyone looking for a nostalgia kick these days is spoilt for choice.
The Evercade Vs is one of the latest challengers, and attempts to appeal more to those who don’t just like playing retro games, but can appreciate the joy in collecting them too.
The console was released late last year in Europe, but the US only just got it on February 25, so we decided to take a closer look at it now to see what state it’s in as it arrives in America.
The Evercade Vs is the console version of the original Evercade, a handheld device released back in May 2020. Like its portable predecessor, its main gimmick is the fact that it plays cartridges, much like the 8-bit and 16-bit systems of old.
Rather than supporting legacy NES, SNES or Mega Drive cartridges like some other retro devices do, the Evercade instead supports new, bespoke compilation cartridges made specifically for the system.
There are currently 28 of these cartridges, each of which is officially licensed and contains anything from 2 to 20 games.
If you’re committed (and rich) enough to buy every cartridge, you’ll end up with a library of 297 games mainly spanning the 20th century, covering numerous systems including Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Mega Drive and even PlayStation.
Although most of these cartridges were designed with the original handheld Evercade in mind, almost all of them work in the Evercade Vs too. The only carts that don’t are Namco Collection 1 and 2, which contain 22 games between them – the Vs won’t play these because Namco’s licence with
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