by Jason Russell | Sep 15, 2022 | 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, Arcade, Console/PC/Handheld, Gaming, Home Consoles
As amazing as it seems, it’s been 6 years now since Nintendo revitalized the retro plug & play mini industry with the NES Classic Edition (released November 2016). In the time since many, many brands have followed suit – everyone from arch-rival Sega...
by Jason Russell | Apr 20, 2022 | Console/PC/Handheld, Gaming, Home Consoles, Magazine, Retro Development, 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 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 | 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 26, 2018 | Columns, Console/PC/Handheld, The Story Of...
When the world isn’t being bombarded with retro plug & play minis, the powers-that-be are still finding ways to cater to the vast market of yesteryear today. Enter the Intellivision Amico, a system slated for release on 10/10/2020 that proposes the cutting edge of...
