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 made a console you could only play on an airplane. It’s called the Mega Jet, and it’s one of the oddest pieces…
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
Step back into the pixelated glory of the Nintendo Game Boy, this time, it’s all about the games. In Part II (read part I…
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…