Tag: RetroAffaire
Nagoya-chū Denkiyasan: A Haunted Text Adventure
There’s an electronics shop in Nagoya-chū Denkiyasan. Dusty shelves, dead monitors, a counter scarred by decades of small transactions. You wake up on its…
X68000Z Mini: Unboxing Japan Game Haul with JPFans
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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…
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 a groundbreaking 4th-generation console developed by Hudson Soft and released by NEC…
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…
The SEGA Game Gear is 35! A retrospective
Celebrating 35 Years of the Sega Game Gear Introduction In October 1990, SEGA released the Game Gear, its very first handheld game console, starting…
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…
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…