Two licensed handhelds from Taito and Capcom come with a host of old favourites from their back catalogues, and the quality of the game emulation is excellent
The world is certainly not short of retro video game hardware these days. We have the array of official Mini consoles released by Sega and Nintendo, and then there are the very much unofficial handhelds by companies such as Anbernic, that will play thousands of games – as long as you don’t mind about the shady legality of homebrew emulators and downloadable rom files. With its Evercade series, however, British company Blaze Entertainment is taking a different approach, producing solidly built gaming machines that run fully licensed versions of games from the original creators. And, even better, the games come on cartridges.
The Super Pocket is the company’s miniature handheld games machine, much smaller and lighter than its EXP device. Designed to quite literally fit in your pocket it has a crisp 2.8in LED screen, cute front-facing speaker (as well as a headphone port) and lots of carefully positioned buttons including a range of shoulder buttons on the rear. It uses a rechargeable battery and a USB-C charging cable, so it’s quick to fill up with juice and it’ll last around four hours.
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