Why I’ve Been Following Lara Croft Around Digital Tombs for Nearly Three Decades
Look, I need to come clean about something – I’ve been obsessed with Tomb Raider since 1996, and yeah, I know how that sounds coming...
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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...
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Why I Pay for Both Xbox Game Pass and PlayStation Plus (And You Probably Shouldn’t)
Look, I’ll be the first to admit this is probably stupid. Here I am, a 52-year-old construction foreman who didn’t even touch a video game...
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My 30-Year Journey Through Fighting Games: From Quarter-Munching Kid to Graying Competitor
That summer of ’92 changed everything for me. I was fourteen, all elbows and acne, standing in this dingy arcade that smelled like stale cigarettes...
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Why I Wake Up at 5 AM to Hunt for Plastic Cartridges
My ex-wife used to think I’d completely lost it. There I was, 43 years old, sitting in my truck at 5:30 in the morning with...
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That Time PaRappa The Rapper Destroyed My Gaming Confidence (And My Relationship)
Christmas 1997. Sarah thought she was being clever, getting me something “different” from the usual gaming suspects. I’d been banging on about Final Fantasy VII...
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That Time Star Fox Made Me Believe in Magic (And Why 3D Graphics at 20fps Were Good Enough)
You know how sometimes you stumble across something that completely changes your understanding of what’s possible? That happened to me around 2011 when I was...
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The Soundtracks That Made Me Cry (And Why My Dad Called Them Beeps and Boops)
I still remember the first time video game music made me cry. Not some cheesy pop ballad or dramatic movie score – it was the...
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That Time a Cartoon Worm in a Space Suit Became My Gaming Obsession
The first time I saw Earthworm Jim at the local game store, I thought someone was pulling my leg. This was 1994, I was deep...
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My Thirty-Year Love Affair with a Blue Hedgehog (And Why I Keep Coming Back Despite Everything)
Right, so I need to come clean about something – I’ve been following Sonic the Hedgehog for over three decades now, and I’m still not...
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Two Controllers, One Couch: Why Playing Next to Each Other Still Beats Online
You know what’s funny? I spent most of my adult life thinking video games were a solitary thing. Made sense to me – one TV,...
