Last weekend I was digging through my game room – well, calling it a game room makes it sound fancy, it’s really just the spare bedroom where I’ve crammed all my retro stuff – looking for something to play while waiting for my daughter to call. She’s supposed to check in every Sunday around noon, though “around” in her vocabulary apparently means sometime between 11 AM and whenever she remembers. Anyway, I pulled out Streets…
Man, I can still hear that jetpack sound effect in my sleep. Not the cheap, tinny beep you’d expect from…
Man, I still remember the exact moment Pokemon Puzzle League clicked for me. It was summer ’01, I think, and…
The six-button controller was just sitting there on my mate Dave’s coffee table like it had fallen from another planet.…
Right, here’s something that’s been bugging me for years – everyone bangs on about Crash Bandicoot being this massive PlayStation…
Look, I never thought I’d be the guy people call when they want to throw a good party. For most…
I can still feel that bloody great CRT monitor trying to slip out of my sweaty hands as I navigated…
Finding out about cheat codes at forty was like discovering there’d been a secret entrance to every building I’d ever…
I’ve spent the better part of twelve years catching up on forty years of gaming history I missed, and let…
Christ, I miss the days when you couldn’t just whip out your phone and fact-check every mental gaming rumour that…
