by Jeremy Parish | Apr 11, 2026 | 1970s, 2020s, Magazine Preview, Opinions
Gaming historians often write about popular media in the pre-internet age as if it all existed in vacuum-sealed silos by country, but that’s not true at all. Intercontinental communication may have been a lot more complicated back then, but consider Heiankyo Alien, a...
by Jeremy Parish | Oct 21, 2025 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
On July 15, 1983, Nintendo launched its first programmable console, the Family Computer. A couple of years later, the Famicom would arrive in America as the Nintendo Entertainment System. In the decade following the console’s Japanese debut, it would help transform...
by Jeremy Parish | Aug 7, 2025 | 1980s, 1990s, Magazine Preview
The early days of home video games were, to put it lightly, a mess. Dozens of companies scrambled to cash in on the Home Pong craze by releasing largely identical standalone consoles powered by fully identical chipsets all sourced from the same manufacturers. Pong was...
by Jeremy Parish | Feb 8, 2025 | 1990s, 2000s, Magazine Preview
There exists in biological sciences a principle called “carcinization.” This concept expounds on the fact that evolution has a tendency to lead animal life to eventually take the form of a crab. This has happened, quite independently, roughly half a dozen times...