Month: October 2025
Halloween special: 30 retro horror games to play
Introduction For Halloween, I’ve pulled together the retro horror games in my collection: 8-bit ghost stories, haunted-house adventures, RPGs, sound novels and 90s FMV…
Neo Geo Pocket Color: SNK’s mini-arcade handheld
Introduction SNK’s Neo Geo Pocket arrived in Japan in October 1998, followed by the Neo Geo Pocket Color in March 1999. I wasn’t aware…
The Atari Lynx is 36! A retrospective
Introduction In September 1989, Atari released the Lynx, the first cartridge-based handheld console with a colour screen. Thirty-six years later, in 2025 — help!…
The SEGA Game Gear is 35! A retrospective
Celebrating 35 Years of the Sega Game Gear Introduction In October 1990, Sega released its first handheld console, the Game Gear. I wrote this…
Lego Game Boy, a love letter to pixel perfection
There are few sounds in the world as instantly nostalgic as the click of a Game Boy power switch. That soft hum as the…
The art of storytelling in pixels: the sound novels of the Super Famicom
Before visual novels became a cultural phenomenon, before anime-inspired dating sims filled shelves and app stores, there were the Sound Novels: a uniquely Japanese…
Vintage Apple models icons inside of your Mac
Your Mac may contain icons for Apple hardware much older than the computer you’re using. They live inside system bundles, alongside everyday folder and…
🍏 The iBook G3 Lime, the colour of a digital revolution
Look at this beauty… The iBook G3 Key Lime still makes me stop and look. Apple introduced the clamshell iBook in 1999, then added…
Welcome to RetroAffaire: Pixels, Plastic, and Nostalgia
Some people chase the future.I collect the past… one cartridge, one cassette, one pixel at a time. RetroAffaire was born on Instagram on 12…