Coming to Cheat Codes Late – What I Missed and Why I Loved Them Anyway
Finding out about cheat codes at forty was like discovering there’d been a secret entrance to every building I’d ever visited, and nobody bothered to...
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Ten Puzzle Games That Broke My Brain (And Why I Keep Going Back for More)
I’ve spent the better part of twelve years catching up on forty years of gaming history I missed, and let me tell you something –...
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Building My First Gaming PC in the ’90s Was a Beautiful Disaster
Coming to PC gaming in my late thirties meant I missed all the formative experiences most retro gaming enthusiasts share, but it also gave me...
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When Every Company Thought They Could Make the Next Mario – A Journey Through 90s Mascot Madness
You know, coming to retro gaming in my forties meant I missed all the hype cycles when they actually happened. I wasn’t there for the...
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Why I’m Getting Pickier About Which Old Games Deserve My Money
Look, I never owned Final Fantasy VII when it first came out. Couldn’t afford a PlayStation back then – I was still trying to make...
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How I Watched Competitive Gaming Go From Quarter-Up Arcade Battles to Million-Dollar Prize Pools
You know, I missed most of the arcade era the first time around – too busy being broke in rural Wyoming to worry about video...
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How I Went from Missing the Game Boy Era to Carrying a Pocket Computer
You know what’s weird about coming to retro gaming late? I never had that Christmas morning Game Boy moment that every other gaming guy my...
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How RPG Morality Systems Made Me Question My Own Ethics (And Why That’s a Good Thing)
First time I nuked an entire town in a video game was back when I was catching up on all the Fallout games I’d missed....
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Amazon’s Fallout Episode 3 Hit Different – A Construction Guy’s Take on “Echoes of the Past”
You know, I’ve been watching Amazon’s Fallout series with the kind of attention I usually reserve for blueprints, and episode 3 just knocked me sideways....
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Why The Last of Us TV Show Nailed Joel and Tommy’s Reunion Better Than I Expected
Man, I’ll be honest – when I first fired up The Last of Us back in 2013, I wasn’t expecting much. My daughter had been...
