Timothy discovered retro gaming at forty and never looked back. A construction foreman by day and collector by night, he writes from a fresh, nostalgia-free angle—exploring classic games with adult curiosity, honest takes, and zero childhood bias.
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 tell me about it. My daughter was the one who introduced me to them, actually – she was playing some old SNES game at my place, punched in this weird sequence of buttons, and suddenly the character had infinite lives. “Dad, you seriously never used cheat codes growing up?” she…
I’ve spent the better part of twelve years catching up on forty years of gaming history I missed, and let…
Coming to PC gaming in my late thirties meant I missed all the formative experiences most retro gaming enthusiasts share,…
You know, coming to retro gaming in my forties meant I missed all the hype cycles when they actually happened.…
Look, I never owned Final Fantasy VII when it first came out. Couldn’t afford a PlayStation back then – I…
You know, I missed most of the arcade era the first time around – too busy being broke in rural…
You know what’s weird about coming to retro gaming late? I never had that Christmas morning Game Boy moment that…
First time I nuked an entire town in a video game was back when I was catching up on all…
You know, I’ve been watching Amazon’s Fallout series with the kind of attention I usually reserve for blueprints, and episode…
Man, I’ll be honest – when I first fired up The Last of Us back in 2013, I wasn’t expecting…
