I'm starting to warm to this device a little. $20 for a case, cartridge and nice colour manual is pretty good value. For older games they seem to pack in around six games, but it was the Xenocrisis/Tanglwood double pack that caught my eye. The are both fairly recent, high quality homebrew games, and $20 for both in a nice physical copy is pretty good.
I'm also interested in this system now, especially since they now have actual officially licensed compilations of
Atari Lynx games! This is the first time that emulated Lynx games have been represented in any compilation packs since the system went off the market in the mid 1990s.
I honestly thought this would never happen, since Atari rarely licenses out any of their home video games that were on systems other than the Atari 2600. Although, now that we're on this subject, each of the two earlier Atari compilations for the Evercade do have a few Atari 7800 games on them.
AtGames (who produces many Atari-licensed self-contained retro game machines) has done a few portable systems with 2600 games, but apparently has no interest in offering a portable with Lynx games on it. Fans on AtariAge have asked about the possibility of at least tossing in a few Lynx games along with their usual mix of 2600 games, but one of the users there (who does some consulting for AtGames) shot down that idea.
In retrospect, maybe it's OK that it turned out like this. While AtGames has dropped the ball, another company has picked it up. Judging from online reviews, this seems to be a superior product to AtGames' typical fare. If Lynx games are going to reenter the market for the first time in 25 years, then it's better off in the hands of a company that (hopefully) will put in the quality effort that these games deserve.