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Blaze Entertainment has announced that two compilations of Intellivision games are in development for Evercade.
The first cartridge will be released in fall 2021, and will contain 12 games. The first three games to be confirmed are:
The other nine games for the first cartridge will be revealed later. There will also be a second cartridge, scheduled for release in 2022.
Here's a link to the full announcement from the Evercade site:
Also, here's a video featuring Andrew Byatt of Blaze Entertainment and Tommy Tallarico of Intellivision Entertainment.
In the video, they discuss how this collaboration came about, and the process that they will be using to select games for inclusion on the Evercade compilations. The Intelliivision controller (with a control disc, four side buttons, and 12-key numeric keypad) is quite different from the Evercade control scheme (D-pad, four face buttons, two shoulder buttons, Select and Start buttons), so they want to be careful to choose games that are suited to the Evercade's controls. They'll be focusing on games with relatively simple controls, that originally utilized only the side buttons and maybe one or two keypad buttons, so they can easily remap them to the Evercade buttons. This means that games like Utopia unfortunately won't make the cut. Also, many of the early sports games on Intellivision required two human players, so these also won't be included. They might also include a few prototype games that were not officially released on the actual Intellivision console, but appeared on some of the compilation packs for other systems.
The first cartridge will be released in fall 2021, and will contain 12 games. The first three games to be confirmed are:
- Astrosmash
- Night Stalker
- Frog Bog
The other nine games for the first cartridge will be revealed later. There will also be a second cartridge, scheduled for release in 2022.
Here's a link to the full announcement from the Evercade site:
Intellivision is coming to Evercade! - Evercade
We are delighted to announce the first of two Intellivision Collection cartridges for the Evercade. Arriving Fall 2021, we will be...
www.evercade.co.uk
Also, here's a video featuring Andrew Byatt of Blaze Entertainment and Tommy Tallarico of Intellivision Entertainment.
In the video, they discuss how this collaboration came about, and the process that they will be using to select games for inclusion on the Evercade compilations. The Intelliivision controller (with a control disc, four side buttons, and 12-key numeric keypad) is quite different from the Evercade control scheme (D-pad, four face buttons, two shoulder buttons, Select and Start buttons), so they want to be careful to choose games that are suited to the Evercade's controls. They'll be focusing on games with relatively simple controls, that originally utilized only the side buttons and maybe one or two keypad buttons, so they can easily remap them to the Evercade buttons. This means that games like Utopia unfortunately won't make the cut. Also, many of the early sports games on Intellivision required two human players, so these also won't be included. They might also include a few prototype games that were not officially released on the actual Intellivision console, but appeared on some of the compilation packs for other systems.