I'm not sure that anyone thought this product was ever gonna see the light of
day inside this box I've got this giant stack of retro game cartridges got some
Namco Games Technos Pico interplay mega
cat and Atari games that I'm gonna be trying out on the ever Kade has held
game console designed specifically for these older abandonware types of games
most of these I actually am not familiar with because as a 1986 baby I might
actually be too young but we're gonna
give it a shot today and even gonna have my son try out some of them so he can
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the features of this thing the reaction to it has been a little bit mixed I'm a
fan of the delightfully retro look but
I've seen some misgivings about particularly the shape and size of the
d-pad very clicky left and right triggers ABXY kind of snare style and
curiously it's got a 16 by 9 display
when a lot of these older games that you'd be playing would end up a pillar
boxed in that case this is another interesting feature though in addition
to being a handheld the ever Kade SC has a mini HDMI port so that you can
actually run it out to your TV you have a look at the accessories oh yes that's
right so it comes in a couple of different configurations the starter
pack comes with one cartridge and the premium pack the one that I have
actually comes with three cartridges so
between all of this I've got 10 10 game
packs each with anywhere between 6 and
20 games on the cartridges
- doesn't eat that kind of phone that's ok baby turns out this is the
switch that makes sense flipping it around to the bottom we've got volume up
volume down a headphone jack and a USB micro-b port so that's gonna take care
of charging the 2 thousand milliamp our internal battery that always get met you
they claim around 4 to 5 hours of play
time the console uses a 1.4 gigahertz quad-core processor in the screen
resolution is 480 by 272 apparently you
are emulating the games on this handheld but the emulators are under license from
ever caged so it's all like basically legit so I'm gonna let you pick what
game or game pack should we try first okay all right I'm gonna get some super
spike volleyball and some dodgeball double dragon to the revenge display is
not terrible not great definitely TN AF horizontal viewing
angles are pretty good though like it's definitely functional for a
single-player experience you can see
there's a two-player option but it's not actually two-player in its current state
so they left the two-player option in the game in case there's a future console that they can enable it with but
this is a single-player only experience I would describe the sound output from
the devices not amazing but good enough
given the kinds of musical scores that we're listening to here and definitely
loud you gotta stop kicking backwards when you got any of these in front of
there kiddo honestly I'm not sure it
alright you ready to try another game
games used to be hard now I'm not sure how to get back into the menu here
alright well sure enough this is cool like most emulator software it's got
full support for savestates that's a super dodgeball sure 1989
yeah now who can't find the buttons it's
up now I got to say the emulation does not look good on this one there is a lot
of like flickering that I'm pretty sure
is not supposed to be there okay not all old games were good wait a
minute oh I think I understand so you're the green players yeah you got
to watch out for the guys that are wearing the white shirts okay you got to
stop hitting your own guys here all right good deal right in the face I
can't see myself playing this for longer than about 45 minutes I'm gonna try
battle cars 1993 I mean you Georgie
Georgia in the age of our long tutorial segments of games
I do miss sometimes the whole just like hey pop the game in the console and play
but I have no idea what's going on I'd
say if you're after licensed versions of these games which are actually kind of
hard to get your hands on these days the hardware is not bad for the price so
it's 79 US dollars for the one game pack version and then it's 99 for the three
game pack version then the additional packs are I think $12 each or something
like that I want to say let me double check that $20 each it certainly doesn't
hold up to modern triple-a gaming but for something to just kind of goof
around with in your pocket if you're into red robes I've seen much worse
value propositions okay here's the real question though if I tell you you've
only got an hour to play video games do
you play with this or do you play with the switch or a VR or whatever else
suppose yeah it's kind of what I thought
to cost a lot more dough so thanks for checking this out I think it's available
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