by Jason Russell | Oct 23, 2020 | Columns, Console/PC/Handheld, Home Consoles, Interviews, Magazine, The Story Of...
A Lot Has Changed in 24-Months As we approach the tail end of the year, it’s a pretty safe assessment that nobody could have predicted just how brutally rough and tumble 2020 would prove to be. Yet for the video game industry, somehow, things are very prosperous. ...
by Jason Russell | Oct 15, 2020 | 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, Home Consoles, Magazine
It Will Be One Of them – The Question Is Which The world at large is focused on the forthcoming PlayStation 5 and XBox Series X releases and amid all of the preorder frenzy, Sega quietly suggested that its next retro mini classic system is in the works. Sega...
by Jason Russell | Nov 4, 2019 | 1990s, Columns, Console/PC/Handheld, Home Consoles, The Story Of...
Gone But Not Forgotten. Imagine it – you are the representative rights holder to some obscure dusty old video game system that, for whatever reason, failed to hold its own during its original console generation, tumbling deep into the abyss of eBay obscurity....
by Jason Russell | Oct 24, 2019 | Console/PC/Handheld, Home Consoles, Lists, Magazine
Next in Line for the Retro Mini Treatment from Sega? In my last column I talked about the Sega Genesis Mini and the fact that Sega actually managed to trump its arch rival of years past (Nintendo) in a few key areas of the retro mini market. In the time since, the...
by Ben Magnet | Sep 1, 2019 | 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, Console/PC/Handheld
I would call myself an amateur video game historian. I love watching videos on YouTube about the subject as well as going to Retro Video Game conventions and playing older systems. It was this past Retro City Festival in Pomona CA where I played a Coleco Vision for...
