Tag: Nintendo
Retro Games
When Disney games were pure magic: Mickey & Donald’s 16-bit years (1990–1995)
In 2002, during my second trip to Japan, I walked into Tokyo Disneyland and recognised it. I’d been there before, ten years earlier, on…
Retro Games
The SEGA Switch of 1993: Mega Jet & Nomad
Sega once put a Mega Drive on an aeroplane. It’s called the Mega Jet, and it’s one of the oddest pieces of hardware in…
Collecting
The €10 Game Boy pile I found on a street in Rome
I was in Rome for work. On the walk back to the hotel there was one of those little street stalls you find in…
Consoles
Street Fighter II: the game that made me sell my console. Twice.
Between 1991 and 1993, as a child, I wanted one game at home more than anything else in the world. And the machine under…
Retro Games
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…
Consoles
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…