Right, so you've got yourself a Mega Drive—or Genesis if you're across the pond—and you're staring at those AV outputs wondering why your games look like they're being broadcast through a fishbowl. Trust me, I've been there. Back when I first plugged my Mega Drive into mum's Panasonic CRT using the RF switchbox that came in the box, I thought the fuzzy, slightly off-color picture was just how Sonic was supposed to look. Spoiler alert:…
Standing in my mate's bedroom that summer of '89, watching him unwrap what looked like a sleek black spaceship, I…
The plastic shell cracked under my thumb with that satisfying *pop* that meant business. I was eight, maybe nine, wrestling…
My mate Dave convinced me to start cataloguing every N64 game I could get my hands on about three years…
There's something magical about firing up a Genesis cart in 2024 that transports me straight back to my mate Steve's…
The other day my kid found my old Game & Watch collection buried in a shoebox behind some Christmas decorations.…
I was rummaging through my loft last weekend, dodging cobwebs and trying not to step through the ceiling, when I…
My mate Dave popped round last Tuesday with his laptop, looking like he'd discovered fire. "You've got to see this,"…
There's a cardboard box in my attic that weighs more than it should. Inside, wrapped in old towels, sit the…
There's this moment burned into my brain from Christmas 1996. I'm sitting cross-legged on our living room carpet—you know, that…
Picture this: you're twelve years old, clutching a dog-eared copy of GamePro, staring at that glossy two-page spread showing Mario…
Cleaning out the spare room last weekend, I found it tucked behind a box of PlayStation memory cards—my Pikachu Nintendo…
My N64 sits on the shelf next to a stack of cartridges that probably cost more than my first car.…
There's this moment, right? You're standing in Woolworths on launch day, sweaty tenner crumpled in your palm, staring at this…
There's this fighting game that everyone seems to have forgotten about, buried somewhere between the Street Fighter II fever and…
