Activision Collection 1 is the newest addition to Evercade’s increasing lineup, with a curated mixture of 15 traditional titles from the golden period of gaming.
● Comes on one bodily Evercade cartridge, together with a full-colour guide
● The first of three collections due for launch between 2025 and 2026.
● Compatible with all Evercade and HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket gadgets
● Releases November 2025 – Pre-orders open.
● Priced at £19.99, $29.99, and €24.99
LETCHWORTH, UK: Blaze Entertainment is happy to announce Activision Collection 1, essential cartridge that includes 15 legendary 2600-era titles from one of the influential builders in gaming historical past. This cartridge launch, and the additional two releases scheduled for 2026, spotlight Activision’s pioneering function in shaping early residence gaming, bringing collectively a few of its hottest and progressive video games to the Evercade bodily cartridge ecosystem.
This first assortment celebrates a number of the most beloved and influential video games of the early residence console period, providing a mixture of high-speed racing, intense motion, platforming challenges, and distinctive arcade-style gameplay. Each title has been faithfully preserved, permitting gamers to expertise them as they have been meant to be performed.
From the thrilling vine-swinging motion of Pitfall! to the high-speed aerial fight of River Raid, and the strategic depth of Starmaster, this assortment delivers a various vary of gaming experiences. Racing followers will get pleasure from classics like Enduro and Grand Prix, whereas motion lovers can check their reflexes in Megamania and Demon Attack.
This cartridge might be a part of the red-coloured residence console line and might be numbered #47. It might be accessible for £19.99, $29.99, and €24.99, releasing in November 2025.
Activision Collection 1 consists of:
● Pitfall! – One of probably the most iconic platformers of all time, that includes jungle adventures and dangerous obstacles.
● River Raid – An exhilarating vertically-scrolling shooter the place gamers pilot a fighter jet via treacherous terrain.
● Enduro – A quick-paced endurance racing recreation testing reflexes and technique.
● Megamania – An area shooter the place gamers battle waves of weird enemies.
● Beamrider – A futuristic rail shooter difficult gamers to defend towards alien threats.
● Space Shuttle: A Journey Into Space – A extremely real looking area simulation expertise for its time.
● Demon Attack – A difficult alien-blasting arcade shooter.
● Fishing Derby – A singular two-player fishing competitors.
● Private Eye – A detective-based action-adventure that includes automobile chases and clue-solving.
● Sky Jinks – A slalom-style aerial racing recreation.
● Crackpots – A unusual arcade recreation the place gamers defend towards invading bugs.
● Grand Prix – A high-speed Formula 1-style racing expertise.
● Starmaster – A deep area fight simulator.
● Tennis – One of the earliest representations {of professional} tennis in online game kind.
● Freeway – A enjoyable and frantic recreation of getting chickens throughout the street.
“Activision’s early library helped define home console gaming, and we’re excited to bring these iconic titles to Evercade players,” stated Blaze Entertainment Ltd’s CEO, Andrew Byatt.“This collection captures the creativity and excitement of the 2600 era, allowing both long-time fans and new players to experience these classics. It’s something our fans have been asking for since we started and we’re delighted we can finally bring them to retro gaming fans everywhere.”
This cartridge is suitable with all Evercade {hardware}, together with previous, current, and upcoming gadgets. It can also be totally playable on HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket consoles, providing much more entry to those traditional video games.
Notes
Evercade was first launched in 2020 as a handheld machine with ten gaming cartridges of traditional console licenses. Since then, it has grown to a number of different {hardware} gadgets (listed beneath) and now has over 70 bodily cartridge collections and greater than 600 video games throughout the whole ecosystem.
Evercade gadgets play video games through emulation on bespoke cartridges. These bodily releases are available a traditional clamshell case with a full-colour guide, customized written by Blaze with controls, hints and suggestions, and attention-grabbing information in regards to the titles and builders.
Evercade emulates a variety of methods (together with 8, 16, 32 and 64-bit console, handhelds, THEC64 and Amiga residence computer systems, plus arcade video games), in addition to natively run video games. It additionally highlights trendy retro video games created by indie builders, with assist for 5 many years of gaming.
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About Blaze Entertainment
Blaze Entertainment, shaped in 2018, are the creators of the Evercade – a retro gaming console that makes use of cartridges to ship formally licensed, curated collections of retro and retro-inspired video video games. Launched in 2020, the Evercade line-up has grown to over 500 video games and continues to develop, with partnerships together with Capcom, Gearbox Software, Atari, Bandai Namco, Interplay, Codemasters, Crystal Dynamics, Team17, IREM, Rebellion, SNK Corporation, Toaplan, and plenty of unbiased recreation designers and publishers. Based within the UK, Evercade has discovered a passionate viewers all over the world of retro fanatics, providing a high-quality and low-entry gaming choice offering nostalgia for avid gamers and a bodily vary of releases for collectors. In 2023, Blaze launched a second model, HyperMegaTech! to create extra retro and gaming-focused merchandise for a extra informal gaming market, beginning with the Super Pocket console with licensed variations from Capcom and Taito, earlier than including extra variations with Atari, Arc System Works, Data East, and NEOGEO.