Evercade, the brand new handheld retro gaming console, today announced the next cartridge in its library – a brand new Atari Lynx cartridge with 17 games. We’ve talked about the console before, as well as featuring it on our Podcast, and this is the sort of news we were hoping for.

The new cartridge features content officially licensed from Atari and Songbird Productions to bring these 17 games to the new handheld device, which also connects to your TV via HDMI. What’s great is that the Atari Lynx is a console that most everyone passed over or didn’t even know existed.

These games are incredibly hard to play in any way currently (shy of owning the original console and cartridges) and show Evercade’s continued mission to bring quality retro games to a single platform. It would also cost you an arm and a leg to own a working Lynx console, let alone one with a screen that works well enough for use. Playing games that would otherwise be lost to time is a real strength of the Evercade.

The cartridge joins a library of 10 other cartridges which includes content from publishers Atari, Data East, Interplay, Mega Cat Studios, Namco Museum, Piko Interactive and Technos, taking the total to over 135 officially licensed games.

For those of you unaware, Evercade is a brand new console that uses its own retro-style game cartridges – giving you a super simple, instant gaming experience – like the good old days. It features a 4.3” screen (the same size as the PSP) and TV output, so you can enjoy retro gaming at home or on the go!

Evercade have confirmed another (yet announced) cartridge is also in the pipeline and they plan to launch 2-5 cartridges this year alongside the 10 cartridges that will be available from launch. If the company can truly support the console in such a manner expect the Evercade to pop up in our “Must Have” list the closer we get to the holiday season.

They also recently announced that arcade games would be introduced to the console, expanding the potential library for this device even more!

Evercade ‘Atari Lynx Collection 1’ Games List:

1. Scrapyard Dog
2. Basketbrawl
3. Super Asteroids/Missile Command®
4. Awesome Golf
5. Crystal Mines II: Buried Treasure
6. CyberVirus
7. Dracula the Undead
8. Gordo 106
9. Ishido: The Way of Stones
10. Jimmy Connors Tennis
11. Loopz
12. Malibu Bikini Volleyball
13. MegaPak
14. Power Factor
15. Remnant
16. Super Sqweek
17. Xump

The new cartridge will launch in Q3 and you can register your interest here: evercade.co.uk

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