My Twelve-Year Crime Spree Through Los Santos – Why I Can’t Quit GTA Online
I remember taking a sick day from my accounting job when GTA Online launched back in October 2013. Told my boss I had a migraine,...
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When Two Cartridges Became One Game – My...
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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...
Game Reviews
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Why Henry and Sam Still Make Me Cry Every Bloody Time
Right, so I need to get something off my chest about The Last of Us telly adaptation, specifically about Henry and Sam’s storyline. Now, I’ve...
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How I Finally “Got” EarthBound After Dismissing It as Too Weird
Man, I have to admit something that’s kind of embarrassing for someone who claims to know retro RPGs – I completely whiffed on EarthBound when...
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Fallout Episode 5 Just Broke My Brain (And I’ve Been Playing These Games Since the 90s)
Right, I’ve been putting off writing about this bloody episode for days now. Every time I boot up the PC and open a document, I...
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That Orange Plastic Gun Changed Everything – My Duck Hunt Obsession
Christmas morning 1987, and I’m seven years old staring at this orange plastic gun that came with our new Nintendo. My older brother had already...
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How SimCity Taught Me Systems Thinking at 40 (And Why I Can’t Stop Building Digital Cities)
I’ve mentioned before that I came to gaming backwards – discovered it as an adult, then worked my way through gaming history. But there’s one...
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That First Rocket to the Face – How Quake Taught Me What Online Gaming Really Meant
The first time someone properly murdered me in Quake multiplayer, I didn’t even know what hit me. One second I’m creeping through some dodgy corridor...
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When Real-Time Strategy Games Took Over My Life: A Journey from Dune II to StarCraft Domination
You know, I can pinpoint the exact moment my gaming life changed forever, and it wasn’t even on a Sega console. I was sixteen in...
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How Lemmings Nearly Ruined My Brother Relationship and Taught Me Problem Solving
God, the summer of ’92. I can still feel that oppressive heat wave that basically trapped me and my brother Dave in our basement for...
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The Summer I Got Lost in Space – Why Star Control II Still Has Me Hooked After 30 Years
My salvation that boring summer of ’93 came from an unlikely source – my uncle Dave showing up at grandma’s house with his 486 PC...
