Blaze announces Evercade Alpha, tabletop arcade machines that play Evercade cartridges

Blaze Entertainment has announced the next hardware in its Evercade series, a range of tabletop arcades which play Evercade cartridges.

Evercade Alpha launches in November with two separate versions, each containing six built-in Capcom games.

The Evercade Alpha Street Fighter Bartop Arcade contains the following games:

• Street Fighter II’ Champion Edition
• Super Street Fighter II Turbo
• Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
• Street Fighter Alpha
• Street Fighter Alpha 2
• Street Fighter Alpha 3

The Evercade Alpha Mega Man Bartop Arcade contains the following games:

• Mega Man: The Power Battle
• Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters
• Carrier Air Wing
• Final Fight
• Knights of the Round
• Strider

Each cabinet contains two cartridge slots, which support any of the previously released Evercade cartridges, of which there are currently over 50, spanning more than 500 retro games.

They also feature two USB controller ports for local multiplayer, with players able to connect existing Evercade controllers or some third-party controllers.

Each cabinet has an 8″ high-resolution IPS 4:3 screen, and is USB-C powered. Each comes fully assembled, standing at just over 16 inches tall, and each version comes with three swappable marquees which can be inserted into the light-up marquee bar at the top of the cabinet.

Both cabinets will cost £199.99 / $229.99 / €229.99 during their pre-order period, after which they will launch at their normal price of £229.99 / $249.99 / €249.99.

A special Deluxe Edition of each will also be available for £249 / €289.99. These will be exclusive to Funstock and will feature Sanwa arcade stick controls, an Evercade Alpha branded USB controller and marquees for all six built-in games.