Category: Retro Games
Sega’s Forgotten Computer: The SC-3000H & the SG-1000
Published alongside the RetroAffaire video. If you haven’t watched it yet, consider treating it as a companion that fills in a few gaps the…
Championship Manager in the 90s: Peak Football Era on Amiga & PC
Introduction If you experienced football from the mid-80s to the mid-00s, you already know the truth: the 90s were arguably the sport’s highest peak.…
The WonderSwan, the song of a creative genius
The great Gunpei Yokoi, Gunpei-sensei. We talked about him in the article (and video) about the Game Boy, as he was the co-creator of…
Hail to the King. Game Boy part II: Games & Super Game Boy
This second part is about the Game Boy games I played and the ones I found later. Part I covers the handheld itself. Here…
Hail to the King. Why the Game Boy is the most important handheld ever
I had this grey brick of a console as a kid, it was my first handheld console (while my first console, was the Sega…
The Sega Master System, the saga of Sega’s 8‑bit underdog
The Sega Master System was my first console ever when I was around 8. It has a special place in my video gaming memories.…
PC Engine, childhood dreams in HuCard form
Introduction The PC Engine, known in North America as the TurboGrafx-16, was developed by Hudson Soft and NEC and released in Japan in 1987.…
Tiger Electronics, childhood dreams on a glorified calculator
For a generation of gamers who grew up in the 80s and 90s, the word “portable” brought up two realities. The first was the…
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…