by Jason Russell | Jun 5, 2022 | Columns, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Opinions
If you’ve been keeping an eye on international gaming hardware news, Sega has announced the follow-up to their 2019 Genesis (Mega Drive) Mini that will, much to the delight of retro gamers everywhere, emulate Sega CD titles. However, it isn’t quite what I...
by Jason Russell | Apr 20, 2022 | Console/Handheld, Gaming, Indie, Magazine Preview, Reviews
The Amiga Story As hard as it is to imagine now, when the Amiga line of computers came on the scene in 1985, the Commodore 64 was only three years old. And, contrary to common misconception, the two Commodore personal computer platforms coexisted all the way until...
by Ben Magnet | Dec 28, 2021 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Gaming, Opinions
Getting presents nowadays isn’t what it used to be. Mostly because a lot of us retro gamers are now older. Some have families, jobs, responsibilities that take us away from our favorite pastime. Of course with jobs comes the money to buy games we always...
by Jason Russell | Oct 17, 2021 | Arcade, Columns, Gaming, Opinions
Q) I recently read your What Ever Happened to Bits? article and found it very interesting. What I don’t fully understand, though, is why don’t we have a standard today to compare system performances? It may not have been accurate, but at least 8, 16 and 32-bit helped...
by Jason Russell | Aug 12, 2021 | 2020s, Console/Handheld, Gaming
Ladies and gentlemen- We Have a Winner It’s becoming a little bit of a game around here trying to guess which piece of classic gaming hardware will be the next to get the modern “retro mini” treatment – which is to say a miniature size version...