- Brand new handhelds from the makers of Evercade featuring built-in arcade games, that fit in your pocket.
- Super Pocket Capcom Edition features 12 great games from the arcade like Street Fighter II’: Hyper Fighting, Final Fight, Ghouls ‘N Ghosts, 1942, Captain Commando, and more along with the original console version of Mega Man.
- Super Pocket TAITO Edition comes with 17 fantastic games from the Japanese arcade giant including Space Invaders, Operation Wolf, The NewZealand Story, Rastan, Bubble Bobble, Elevator Action, and more.
- Super Pocket is also Evercade compatible opening up to 500+ games available on over 45 cartridges (cartridges sold separately)
- All this for only £49, $59, €59 per device.
- Releasing November 2023, available to Pre-Order July 14th 2023
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s8MWrY-zJc
Website: http://hypermegatech.com
LETCHWORTH, UK, July 12, 2023: Blaze Entertainment are delighted to unveil its first products for the new HyperMegaTech brand! The Super Pocket is a brand new retro gaming handheld, featuring built-in arcade games from major gaming publishers that can fit in your pocket!
The first two Super Pocket devices coming to retailers in 2023 are the Super Pocket Capcom Edition and the Super Pocket TAITO Edition. Each console is available for £49, $59, €59 and can be pre-ordered from July 14th ahead of their release in October 2023.
Many products in the retro gaming market at this price point often include five games or less and more often include home console ports of the arcade games. Except where noted, Super Pocket brings you the actual arcade games, so you can coin up to your hearts content and beat those games that cost you all your pocket money when you first played them.
The Super Pocket Capcom Edition comes with 12 amazing games from the legendary publisher including 11 arcade games including Street Fighter II’: Hyper Fighting, Final Fight, 1942, and the home console version of the original Mega Man. All these games are pre-loaded on to your Super Pocket, and presented in a Capcom-inspired colour scheme.
The Super Pocket TAITO Edition comes with 17 incredible games built-in from the iconic game developer, including seminal arcade classics Space Invaders, Elevator Action, Bubble Bobble, The NewZealand Story, Rastan, and the home console game Space Invaders ‘91 and comes in a TAITO-inspired colour scheme.
The Super Pockets feature an easy to use User Interface (UI) that allows you to simply select whichever game you want, easily save or load a game and a variety of screen ratio and pixel perfect options for use on the bright IPS display.
One big feature of the Super Pocket UI is the ability to activate “Easy Mode”. A new feature that lowers the difficulty of games so that you can get past hard to master levels with ease, or so that a younger person can play without a challenging difficulty spike in the games.
In addition to the included games, both Super Pockets are fully compatible with Evercade Cartridges. These game cartridges made for Blaze Entertainment’s Evercade system content legally licensed games from multiple publishers and will insert into the super pocket through a cartridge port on the rear of the console. The complete library of cartridges is supported meaning that Super Pocket owners can expand their library to over 500 games with these cartridges.
The Super Pocket itself is small enough to fit in your pocket (78mm x 125mm x 25mm) and features four face buttons, a start and select button and a menu button, along with a new circular D-Pad, designed for the Super Pocket. It also includes four rear buttons for games that require expanded controls. The Super Pockets boast a 320x280 colourful and bright IPS screen, a 3.5mm headphone jack and uses USB-C to charge its battery.
The Super Pocket Capcom Edition and Super Pocket TAITO Edition will be available individually at £49, $59 and €59 from multiple retailers including Amazon and Funstock globally, Best Buy and Video Games Plus in the US and Canada, Game and Argos in the UK, and many more to be announce around Europe.
A limited edition of the Super Pocket Capcom Edition and Super Pocket TAITO Edition in a crystal translucent plastic shell in their respective colours will also be available from Funstock.co.uk and Funstock.eu for the UK, US, Canada, Europe and more.
Super Pocket Capcom Edition and Super Pocket TAITO Edition will be available to pre-order from July 14th, and will be available from October 2023 in time for the holiday gifting period.
Specs & Games Lists
Weights and Dimensions: 78mm x 125mm x 25mm
USB-C charging port. Cable included
High Quality 2.8” IPS Screen with 320x240 resolution
Easy to navigate User Interface with screen options and load/save states
Evercade Cartridge Support
Weights and Dimensions: 78mm x 125mm x 25mm
USB-C charging port. Cable included
High Quality 2.8” IPS Screen with 320x240 resolution
Easy to navigate User Interface with screen options and load/save states
Evercade Cartridge Support
Super Pocket Capcom Edition - 12 Games
Street Fighter II’: Hyper Fighting
Mega Man*
1942
Ghouls ‘n Ghosts
Final Fight
Strider
1943
1944 : The Loop Master
Bionic Commando
Captain Commando
Forgotten Worlds
Wolf of the Battlefield: MERC
Super Pocket TAITO Edition - 17 Games
Space Invaders
Bubble Bobble
Operation Wolf
The NewZealand Story
Rastan
Cadash
Chack'n Pop
Don Doko Don
Elevator Action
The Fairyland Story
Football Champ
Growl
Kiki Kaikai
The Legend of Kage
Liquid Kids
Space Invaders ‘91*
Volfied
*Console version included on Super Pocket
Quotes
“At Blaze, we are committed to bringing the best retro experiences available in the market. With the upcoming release of Hyper Mega Tech, we are making a range of products that delivers an even more accessible entry point into retro than our successful Evercade range. We are thrilled to introduce our Super Pocket handhelds, and to collaborate with world-class IP from our partners at TAITO and Capcom. Being able to deliver Arcade versions of these amazing games on a high-quality handheld at this price is a real achievement that we know our customers will love.” - Andrew Byatt, CEO - Blaze Entertainment Ltd
“At Blaze, we are committed to bringing the best retro experiences available in the market. With the upcoming release of Hyper Mega Tech, we are making a range of products that delivers an even more accessible entry point into retro than our successful Evercade range. We are thrilled to introduce our Super Pocket handhelds, and to collaborate with world-class IP from our partners at TAITO and Capcom. Being able to deliver Arcade versions of these amazing games on a high-quality handheld at this price is a real achievement that we know our customers will love.” - Andrew Byatt, CEO - Blaze Entertainment Ltd
Notes
HyperMegaTech is a new retro entertainment brand from Blaze Entertainment Ltd., the makers of Evercade. With HyperMegaTech, Blaze Entertainement are able to bring great licenses and properties together with retro and nostalgic products featuring modern sensibilities, and deliver them to a wide audience of fans and retailers.
HyperMegaTech, like all Blaze Entertainment products, features officially licensed retro games direct from the publishers.
Evercade is a gaming ecosystem made by Blaze Entertainment that uses bespoke physical cartridges to deliver retro gamers to players using Evercade or Super Pocket devices.
Evercade Cartridges contain multiple games played via emulation, from officially licensed partners. There are currently 37 collections available and another 12 to be released between now and February 2024.
The Evercade Cartridge library has over 400 games at time of writing with over 500 available by then end of 2023.
Evercade cartridges have three distinct colour schemes to highlight their content. Red coloured boxes feature home console collections from multiple systems across five decades of gaming. Purple indicates Arcade game collections and Blue is for home computer collections.
Evercade Cartridges are numbered collections and come in a physical clamshell case with a full colour manual detailing information about the publishers and the games along with all the controls required to play.
PRESS CONTACTS:
HyperMegaTech: hypermegatech@blazeretro.com
Evercade: press@evercade.co.uk
LINKS:
HyperMegaTech Website: https://hypermegatech.com
Super Pocket TAITO Edition: https://www.hypermegatech.com/super-pockets/super-pocket-taito-edition
Super Pocket Capcom Edition: https://www.hypermegatech.com/super-pockets/super-pocket-capcom-edition
Evercade Cartridges list: https://evercade.co.uk/cartridges/
Evercade Website: http://evercade.co.uk
Evercade Blog: https://evercade.co.uk/blog
Evercade: press@evercade.co.uk
LINKS:
HyperMegaTech Website: https://hypermegatech.com
Super Pocket TAITO Edition: https://www.hypermegatech.com/super-pockets/super-pocket-taito-edition
Super Pocket Capcom Edition: https://www.hypermegatech.com/super-pockets/super-pocket-capcom-edition
Evercade Cartridges list: https://evercade.co.uk/cartridges/
Evercade Website: http://evercade.co.uk
Evercade Blog: https://evercade.co.uk/blog
About Blaze Entertainment
Blaze Entertainment, formed in 2018, are the creators of the Evercade - a retro gaming console that uses cartridges to deliver officially licensed curated collections of retro and retro-inspired video games. Launched in 2020, the Evercade line-up has grown to over 400 games and continues to grow, with partnerships including Capcom, Atari, Bandai Namco, Interplay, Codemasters, Team17, IREM, Rebellion, Toaplan, and many independent game designers and publishers. Based in the UK, Blaze Entertainment has found a passionate audience around the world of retro enthusiasts, offering a high quality and low entry gaming option providing nostalgia for gamers and a physical range of releases for collectors. Their new brand HyperMegaTech launched in 2023 and is producing new retro gaming products.
Find out more at www.evercade.co.uk and Facebook or Twitter.
About Capcom
Capcom is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment for game consoles, PCs, handheld and wireless devices. Founded in 1983, the company has created hundreds of games, including groundbreaking franchises Resident Evil™, Monster Hunter™, Street Fighter™, Mega Man™, Devil May Cry™ and Ace Attorney™. Capcom maintains operations in the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Tokyo, with corporate headquarters located in Osaka, Japan. More information about Capcom and its products can be found at www.capcom.com ; or news.capcomusa.com.
Capcom, and the Capcom logo are registered trademarks of Capcom Co., Ltd. in the U.S. or other countries. Ace Attorney, Devil May Cry, Mega Man, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil and Street Fighter are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Capcom Co., Ltd. and/or its subsidiaries, in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
About TAITO Corporation
TAITO Corporation (TAITO) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. With headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, TAITO operates core businesses such as game arcade operations, manufacturing coin-operated game machines, and mobile phone content services. A seminal part of gaming history, TAITO caused a worldwide sensation with its arcade legend, SPACE INVADERS, and developed such fan favorites as PUZZLE BOBBLE (BUST-A-MOVE) and ARKANOID. Today, TAITO continues to thrill game lovers of all generations by offering both classic and new family-oriented titles on the latest gaming platforms. TAITO delivers a wide range of entertainment experiences with the goal of providing consumers with fresh surprises and new discoveries.
More information on TAITO can be found on the Internet at https://www.TAITO.co.jp/en.
Blaze Entertainment, formed in 2018, are the creators of the Evercade - a retro gaming console that uses cartridges to deliver officially licensed curated collections of retro and retro-inspired video games. Launched in 2020, the Evercade line-up has grown to over 400 games and continues to grow, with partnerships including Capcom, Atari, Bandai Namco, Interplay, Codemasters, Team17, IREM, Rebellion, Toaplan, and many independent game designers and publishers. Based in the UK, Blaze Entertainment has found a passionate audience around the world of retro enthusiasts, offering a high quality and low entry gaming option providing nostalgia for gamers and a physical range of releases for collectors. Their new brand HyperMegaTech launched in 2023 and is producing new retro gaming products.
Find out more at www.evercade.co.uk and Facebook or Twitter.
About Capcom
Capcom is a leading worldwide developer, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment for game consoles, PCs, handheld and wireless devices. Founded in 1983, the company has created hundreds of games, including groundbreaking franchises Resident Evil™, Monster Hunter™, Street Fighter™, Mega Man™, Devil May Cry™ and Ace Attorney™. Capcom maintains operations in the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Tokyo, with corporate headquarters located in Osaka, Japan. More information about Capcom and its products can be found at www.capcom.com ; or news.capcomusa.com.
Capcom, and the Capcom logo are registered trademarks of Capcom Co., Ltd. in the U.S. or other countries. Ace Attorney, Devil May Cry, Mega Man, Monster Hunter, Resident Evil and Street Fighter are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Capcom Co., Ltd. and/or its subsidiaries, in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks and trade names are the property of their respective owners.
About TAITO Corporation
TAITO Corporation (TAITO) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd. With headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, TAITO operates core businesses such as game arcade operations, manufacturing coin-operated game machines, and mobile phone content services. A seminal part of gaming history, TAITO caused a worldwide sensation with its arcade legend, SPACE INVADERS, and developed such fan favorites as PUZZLE BOBBLE (BUST-A-MOVE) and ARKANOID. Today, TAITO continues to thrill game lovers of all generations by offering both classic and new family-oriented titles on the latest gaming platforms. TAITO delivers a wide range of entertainment experiences with the goal of providing consumers with fresh surprises and new discoveries.
More information on TAITO can be found on the Internet at https://www.TAITO.co.jp/en.
Release Dates
Morphcat Games Collection 1 will be available from May 31st, 2022, and will be cartridge number 25. Pre-orders for this collection will open on March 31st, 2022.
For more information on Evercade, its hardware, and upcoming releases, please see the below links.
Morphcat Games Collection 1 will be available from May 31st, 2022, and will be cartridge number 25. Pre-orders for this collection will open on March 31st, 2022.
For more information on Evercade, its hardware, and upcoming releases, please see the below links.
PRESS CONTACTS:
Evercade: press@evercade.co.uk
Morphcat Games: morphcatgames@gmail.com
LINKS:
Morphcat Collection 1 Gameplay Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO2linWxv6o
Micro Mages Press Kit: http://morphcat.de/micromages/presskit/
Evercade Blog: https://evercade.co.uk/blog
Evercade Cartridges list: https://evercade.co.uk/cartridges/
About Blaze Entertainment
Blaze Entertainment, formed in 2018, are the creators of the Evercade - a retro gaming console that uses cartridges to deliver officially licensed curated collections of retro and retro-inspired video games. Launched in 2020, the Evercade line-up has grown to over 200 games and continues to grow, with partnerships including Atari, Bandai Namco, Interplay, Codemasters, Team 17 and many independent game designers and publishers. Based in the UK, the Evercade has found a passionate audience around the world of retro enthusiasts, offering a high quality and low entry gaming option providing nostalgia for gamers and a physical range of releases for collectors.
Find out more at www.evercade.co.uk and Facebook or Twitter.
About Morphcat Games
Morphcat Games are a two-man team bouncing around Berlin, dedicated to bringing new games to the NES: Julius Riecke does the programming and sound while Nicolas Bétoux creates graphics and levels. Spending nights and weekends on projects powered by sushi and pizza.
Evercade: press@evercade.co.uk
Morphcat Games: morphcatgames@gmail.com
LINKS:
Morphcat Collection 1 Gameplay Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO2linWxv6o
Micro Mages Press Kit: http://morphcat.de/micromages/presskit/
Evercade Blog: https://evercade.co.uk/blog
Evercade Cartridges list: https://evercade.co.uk/cartridges/
About Blaze Entertainment
Blaze Entertainment, formed in 2018, are the creators of the Evercade - a retro gaming console that uses cartridges to deliver officially licensed curated collections of retro and retro-inspired video games. Launched in 2020, the Evercade line-up has grown to over 200 games and continues to grow, with partnerships including Atari, Bandai Namco, Interplay, Codemasters, Team 17 and many independent game designers and publishers. Based in the UK, the Evercade has found a passionate audience around the world of retro enthusiasts, offering a high quality and low entry gaming option providing nostalgia for gamers and a physical range of releases for collectors.
Find out more at www.evercade.co.uk and Facebook or Twitter.
About Morphcat Games
Morphcat Games are a two-man team bouncing around Berlin, dedicated to bringing new games to the NES: Julius Riecke does the programming and sound while Nicolas Bétoux creates graphics and levels. Spending nights and weekends on projects powered by sushi and pizza.