Evecade Legacy Cart Return

The legacy continues

Toomanygames, the American videogames conventions, has recently wrapped up, and among the stalls and speakers in attendance was Blaze. The Evercade maker was holding a talk about why Evercade matters, which included some timely talk about digital vis-à-vis physical game ownership (if only everyone could understand that you don’t really own a digital game without owning and accessing a digital copy of it), and a question and answer session.

One answer that is worth highlighting is the news that legacy carts are making a comeback—at least one of them is.

Speaking for Everacde, Mr. Sean Cleaver said that ‘there will be a legacy cart coming back this year,’ but not which cart it will be or when. Will other legacy carts return, Mr Cleaver says possibly, but if you’re waiting for a particular cart I would caution you not get your hopes up. To return a legacy cart will cost money, but not just in manufacturing, it requires Blaze to renew whatever licencing agreements that they originally had, and if there wasn’t so much demand for an older cart, it would make no sense for Blaze to re-release one only to lose money on it.

Playing videogames, writing about videogames, considering videogames—that about sums it up. Videogames are the one hobby that I’ve kept since I was only little, zapping ducks on the NES or knocking out MR. X. And when I’m not enjoying classics from the bit generation of games or checking out those earliest of polygons, I’m probably playing something from today’s age of modern gaming: if I’m not complaining about it. Something I’m doing at the moment? Taking the Multisystem 2 for a spin.