Let’s get physical

David Crookes looks at the ongoing success of Evercade’s growing range of retro consoles.

Inspirational stories from computing’s long-distant past Gamers are passionate people, and they often like to display their allegiance in the starkest of ways. “We’re still amazed by the one person who got a tattoo of the Evercade console, possibly before it was even released,” said Andrew Byatt. And, given he is the CEO of Blaze Entertainment, the company behind that machine, it’s a story he tells with a smile. Evercade is a relatively recent success story built upon a hunch that a good number of gamers aren’t purely interested in the games they play. They are, as Byatt pointed out to APC, just as fascinated by the paraphernalia that has traditionally accompanied games – or at least did before digital distribution became far more commonplace – which is why Evercade…

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