A long time ago in an arcade far, far away… actually, it was just down at the Westland Mall, sandwiched between the Orange Julius and a store that only sold decorative candles. That’s where I first laid eyes on the Star Wars arcade cabinet in 1983. I was barely tall enough to reach the controls, but man, those vector graphics! That wireframe Death Star trench run burned itself into my brain alongside the digitized voice…
I’ve been staring at this blank document for about twenty minutes now, trying to figure out how to start an…
Christmas morning, 1985. I’m sitting cross-legged on our shag carpet, staring wide-eyed at this gray box connected to our family…
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Sometimes I still hear that Nintendo start-up sound in my dreams. You know the one—that magical little jingle that meant…
