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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:

• 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.

 

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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:

• 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.

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[Agent X]

The complete list of games for Intellivision Collection 1 has been announced on the Evercade blog.

• Astrosmash
• Buzz Bombers
• Frog Bog
• Night Stalker
• Pinball
• Princess Quest
• Shark Shark
• Slap Shot: Super Pro Hockey
• Snafu
• Thin Ice
• Thunder Castle
• Word Rockets.

Here's some more information from the blog post.

These initial 12 games will make up the collection with an aim to release more titles in 2022 for a second Intellivision Collection. So why these games?

One of the key things with trying to bring an older, classic system to a device such as the Evercade is making sure that the experience of playing the games is good and fun. But is also as intuitive as it originally was. This is why you see many devices that have the first and second generation of consoles utilize the original control schemes as much as possible.

With the Intellivision, that is more difficult due to its unique and nostalgia-loaded keypad controller. This doesn’t mean that games from that system will be lost or unplayable without it but it means that we have to make choices as to what works intuitively and is fun to use with an adapted control scheme. All this while bringing the classics everyone loves, everyone remembers or wants to show off for the first time.

We think we’ve hit the right balance here and we’re hoping you do as well. We’ll have more news on pre-orders for this cartridge opening next week. So make sure to stay tuned to social media as well for all the latest announcements.

If you want to see a more in-depth look at the Intellivision collection and a Q&A about the cartridge, as well as all the latest on the Evercade VS, make sure to watch this interview with YouTube Intellivision and Evercade enthusiast OEB Pete and Evercade’s Sean Cleaver.