The Unpopular Ones – by Michael Mertes
While the U.S. has seen a wealth of portable game consoles released across the continent, many never had the opportunity even to make it to store shelves. Allow us to introduce you to two such portables: The Gamate and WonderSwan GAMATE: THE MAIL ORDER PORTABLEThe...
Sega’s Game Gear by Todd Friedman
In the latter 1980s, Sega made a big push to compete with Nintendo in the home console market. The Sega Master System brought a whole new generation of gamers to decide whether they should be team Sega or team Nintendo. Then, in the early 1990s, there was the 16-bit...
Game Boy: The Early Arcade Ports
Despite being outgunned by the Atari Lynx and Sega Game Gear in terms of color palette, lighting, screen size, and sheer processing power, the original Game Boy trounced the competition in the category that mattered most to Nintendo: unit sales. The success was driven...
Hold That Tiger! Tiger Electronic LCD
Despite Tiger Handheld games being considered video games, they often did not sit in the electronics section where one would expect to find a Game Boy and its games. Instead, Tiger’s LCD games would sit in the toy aisles at stores. Having Tiger games next to...
Edutainment Games: The Good, The Bad, and The Yikes.
I grew up in the 90’s and for video games the 90’s were great. SEGA and Nintendo were going at it with Sony waiting in the wings while PC gaming started to show off how cool it could be with the internet. Things were looking to be great for gamers in the...Latest Magazine For Paid Subscribers
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