Five Video Games That Actually Made Me Popular at Parties (Who Saw That Coming?)
Look, I never thought I’d be the guy people call when they want to throw a good party. For most of my adult life, I...
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Digging Into N64 Power Supply Schematics – What...
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Why Your N64 Power Supply Will Eventually Die...
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Why I Still Fire Up My Genesis for...
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When N64 Star Wars Games Made Me Forget...
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Why Hyperstone Heist Proves Genesis Did Beat ‘Em...
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Why I Spent Three Months Getting Genesis Emulation...
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Why Setting Up Proper Sega Emulation Changed How...
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Finding Mortal Kombat Trilogy N64 in My Collection...
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Why Mario Party 2 Turned My Accounting Brain...
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That Time Sega Made the Impossible Genesis Port...
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That Time Nintendo Actually Made Water Feel Like...
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That Time Pokemon Puzzle League Made Me Forget...
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Why Diddy Kong Racing Absolutely Smashed Every Other...
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Why Those Grimy Corner Arcades Were Gaming’s Golden...
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The Sega CD Games That Actually Made That...
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Why My Genesis and My Buddy’s Mega Drive...
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That Time Chakan Made Me Question My Life...
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The World Is Not Enough N64 – When...
Game Reviews
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My Shelf Wars: When Digital Games Try to Go Cardboard
My game shelf tells two different stories. Left side’s got my video game collection – all neat and organized by console, special editions sitting pretty...
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Been There, Rage-Quit That: What Makes Boss Fights Mess With Our Heads
I’ve got a graveyard of controllers that died honorable deaths. Well, maybe not honorable. There’s that Genesis controller I threw hard enough to crack my...
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Dragging CRT Monitors Up Stairs and Other LAN Party War Stories
I can still feel that bloody great CRT monitor trying to slip out of my sweaty hands as I navigated Tom’s parents’ narrow staircase. Thirty-two...
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That Time a Clown Bombing Got Me Hooked on European Adventure Games
Back in ’96 I was pulling shifts at Software Etc. – yeah, I know, glamorous career choice for a college dropout – when this game...
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Discovering Chrono Trigger at 42 Changed Everything I Thought I Knew About RPGs
I’ll be honest—when my daughter first mentioned Chrono Trigger back in 2011, I figured she was just throwing another retro game title at me that...
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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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Games Made Me Cry and I’m Not Ashamed Anymore
The first time a video game made me actually cry, I was twenty years old in 1998, sitting in my cramped dorm room at ASU...
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When Games Were the Devil’s Work: My Journey Through Gaming’s Moral Panic Years
I was thirteen when my mam discovered my copy of Mortal Kombat hidden under a stack of Amiga Format magazines. She’d come into my room...
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I Spent My 20s Hunting Digital Trinkets and It Was Worth Every Obsessive Minute
Man, you know you’ve hit that weird middle-aged point when you’re explaining to your students why I can still remember the exact location of every...
