Tag: Retro Games
X68000Z Mini: Unboxing Japan Game Haul with JPFans
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The Toshiba Libretto: Lost Treasures, Victorian Mysteries and Uncharted Galaxies
Some machines earn their place in history by being powerful. The Toshiba Libretto earned it by being brave.In 1996, Toshiba asked a question that…
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…
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…
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…