Almost nobody wakes up one morning and decides out of the blue that they want to be a video game collector. In my…
The old parental and Congressional outrage about video games was always pretty stupid. The belief that video games…
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RetroArch is a homebrew program that combines a ton of different gaming emulators into a single, relatively sleek…
AtGames will release a “Legends Flashback” console on October 1, with 50 console and arcade games including Mega Man 1 and 2, Super SFII, Joe & Mac, Bad Dudes, and, weirdly, the Famicom version of Tetris. It’ll have HDMI out, save states, and rewind.
The Mini Mega Drive announced earlier this year for Japan has been delayed to 2019. The reason is that Sega decided to also release a Mini Genesis simultaneously worldwide as well as to ensure the quality to up to snuff.
Walking up and down the floors of the massive multi-level arcades in Akihabara can trigger some unexpected nostalgic…
This very rare, very early Japanese game history book published in 1988 is currently for sale in Akihabara for about $200. Check out that young Miyamoto mugshot!
Ah, yes, the complete series.
Neo Geo, as a brand, has always seemed to be about extravagant, weird ideas. First it was an arcade machine that…
Nintendo never released a CD-ROM gaming system. But for a while in the early 1990s, it flirted with the idea. That…
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When not creating delightful video games, Owlboy creator Simon Stafsnes Andersen likes to create mock trailers for…
When you play through a game, you probably make notes to yourself—mental notes. It’s unlikely you keep notebooks…
When Sega announced the “Sega Ages” line of classic games for Switch back in April, it said that the new versions of…
Various game emulation sites are pulling down their software libraries, or ceasing to exist entirely, following a…
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I don’t mean “oh you can play old games on your phone”, everyone knows that. I mean playing old games using an…
Yesterday, video game retailer GameStop sent out an email to members of its PowerUp Rewards Elite Pro program saying…
This week, I’ve been playing the latest entry in Nintendo’s series of wacky compilations of seconds-long…
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Remember opening up your first copy of Secret Of Mana? Those memories are probably quite different, depending on if…
Over the years, I’ve seen some amazing retro style GIFS, but I’ve never seen anything like these. Artist Kutsuwa…
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Well, this one should make collectors cringe a little bit. Believe me, it hurt to do it. We took a copy of StarTropic…