by Brendan Meharry | Oct 1, 2017 | 1990s
It’s time for another episode of Wonders of the Retro Gaming World! After checking out the Satellaview and the Net Yaroze, today we’re taking a look at the SEGA Channel. Released in 1994, this service allowed SEGA’s Genesis to hook up to cable...
by Brendan Meharry | Sep 28, 2017 | 1970s, 1980s, 2010s
Remember the Ataribox? The “new” console by Atari? While not much was known originally about the console apart from what was revealed in a twenty-second video showing nothing but 3D renders (so, nothing) – recently, Atari sent out an email newsletter exposing...
by Brendan Meharry | Sep 20, 2017 | 1980s, 2010s
Satoru Iwata, who was the 4th President and CEO of Nintendo, was a programmer and game designer decades before he was a businessman. Long before his tragic death in 2015, he successfully wrote and initiated his own data compression tool to fit the NES’s Golf (which...
by Brendan Meharry | Sep 15, 2017 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
Since I’ve only been collecting retro games since 2011, my collection is far from complete and comprehensive. However, I have amassed approximately 550 titles over my gaming infused life so it’s not small by any means – kind of a weird in-between, if anything. Its...
by Brendan Meharry | Sep 10, 2017 | 1990s
Released in 1997, this was a one of a kind PSone development kit targeted at hobbyists and students that we have not seen the likes of since. [wpdevart_youtube width=”640″ height=”385″ autoplay=”0″ theme=”light”...