As you'll have seen if you checked in on YouTube today, Evercade A to Z is back! I went back and forth on whether I should start something new such as Intellivision Lives! or Activision Anthology for a series, but I've been kind of champing at the bit to get back to Evercade stuff for quite some time, so I thought… well, now's the time.
The format will be the same as before — pick one game from one cart at a time from the library that exists as I reach that point — but footage will be captured from the VS as opposed to the handheld where possible. Not that it makes a huge difference with retro stuff, but this means that the original footage will be 1080p rather than 720p, which will be nice. The only exceptions to this will be the two Namco carts, which I'll have to continue capturing from the handheld due to Blaze's ongoing negotiations with Namco (and Namco's continued awkward bloody-mindedness) over licensing.
Part of the reason I was keen to return to Evercade A to Z is that it's such a varied library in its own right. Each cartridge has a real mix of different stuff in terms of both genre and platform (aside from platform-specific carts like the Intellivision Collection 1 cart) and thus the series should be quite different and varied from week to week, which will keep things interesting for viewers and motivation high for me. I'll even learn not to dread the Interplay Collection carts coming up — there's only a few games on each of them, after all, and very few of those games are completely irredeemable!
For this week, it was a delight to return to Tanzer, which I hadn't actually spent a huge amount of time with before, primarily because I really wanted to play it on the TV but the HDMI sound bugs it had on its original release precluded me from doing that. Now it works absolutely fine on both handheld and VS I can enjoy it to its fullest — and it turns out it's a really great game. Who'd have though one of the games that people were most excited for from the system's launch lineup would turn out to be great?
Anyway, that's the plan for Saturdays for the indefinite future. I've got a lot of games to get through from the current library — and with a number of new carts coming this year (some of which have been publicly announced, some of which I know about but can't talk about yet and some of which are still being planned) there'll be stuff to talk about for the next… long while yet, I'm sure. So I hope you enjoy!
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