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Team17 Brings Amiga To Evercade
March 11, in the year of our Lord 2023 --
Team17 returns to Evercade with ten great titles originally
released on Amiga home computer systems, available on an
Evercade cartridge!
● 10 Great Amiga Games Available From Team17 for the first time
on Evercade
● The first legal Amiga emulation on a physical cartridge.
● Playable on all Evercade consoles, including Evercade EXP and
Evercade VS
● RRP £17.99|$19.99|€19.99 per cartridge
● Releases May 31, 2023. Pre-order from March 17, 2023
LETCHWORTH, UK - March 9, 2023: Blaze Entertainment, makers of
the Evercade cartridge-based gaming systems, and British
publishing legend Team17 are delighted to bring the first
compilation of Amiga games to Evercade with the Team17
Collection 1 cartridge.
10 great games from the veteran games industry company are
included on a physical cartridge for the first time and are also
the first time that Amiga emulation has been legally available
for a handheld gaming system.
The full games list includes:
Alien Breed Special Edition ‘92
Alien Breed II
Alien Breed Tower Assault
Arcade Pool
ATR: All Terrain Racing
Body Blows
Full Contact
Kingpin: Arcade Sports Series Bowling
Project X: Special Edition ‘93
Qwak
Each Evercade gaming cartridge comes in a branded Evercade
cartridge box with a collection number on the spine, and also
includes a full colour manual detailing how to play as well as
some hints and facts about the games.
This collection marks the first from Evercade utilising Amiga
emulation, with many more planned over the coming years. With
official and legal Amiga emulation only just coming to market,
Evercade’s handheld gaming devices are the first portable gaming
systems to run these titles in a legal and fully licensed way.
The Team17 Collection 1 cartridge will work on all Evercade
hardware running the latest firmware (FW Versions 3.0.X and
above) and will feature all the benefits of Evercade’s
emulation, including save and load states which can be used on
all up-to-date Evercade hardware and display settings including
selectable screen sizing and a new 50Hz PAL mode for supported
televisions.
Whilst many home computer titles received ports to various home
consoles, many of Team17’s titles were mostly only published on
Amiga or PC systems. Meaning that this collection is the first
time any of these games have been available on a console-based
device. Fighting titles like Body Blows and Full Contact have
never been released outside of Amiga, and fan-favourite
franchises like Alien Breed are making their return to console
gaming for nearly three decades.
This new collection takes Evercade and Team17 fans on a journey
to the very start of the Worms’ publisher and allows many to
rediscover and others to enjoy for the first time an important
period in game development history.
The Evercade Team17 Collection 1 will be available to buy from
all Evercade retailers on May 31st, 2023, and will be available
to pre-order from March 17th, 2023. This will be the third home
computer collection from Evercade, which will have a blue
coloured spine to denote the platform. This is not the first
time a collection from Team17 has been released on Evercade with
2021’s Worms Collection 1 (18) releasing 3 great console-based
Worms titles. That collection is available now from all Evercade
retailers.
Quotes
“We are excited to unveil the long-awaited Amiga cartridge with
Team17 games on Evercade. As someone who grew up with Amiga, it
brings me great joy to see these timeless classics reach our
customers, whether they are rediscovering them or experiencing
them for the first time. We are confident that the new cartridge
will offer our fans an unforgettable gaming experience, and we
cannot wait for them to get their hands on it.” - Andrew Byatt,
CEO - Blaze Entertainment.
“We’re already proud to have collaborated with Blaze
Entertainment with the Worms Collection 1 for Evercade, so to
reach back into the archives and bring some of our very earliest
hits - including Alien Breed, Qwak, and our debut title Full
Contact - to the platform is an opportunity we eagerly grasped.
We’re excited to see Evercade devotees enjoy this collection of
10 titles when it launches in May.” - Michael Pattison, CEO,
Team17 Digital
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