The First Zombie That Made Me Drop My Controller
October 1996, and I’m working weekends at a video rental place in Manchester – you know, back when that was actually a thing. The manager,...
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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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The Blue Bomber Beat Me Down for Three Decades (And I Kept Coming Back)
Look, I need to be honest about something right up front – the first controller I ever threw in genuine anger was because of Mega...
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Why The Sims Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew About Gaming
You know, I’ve spent most of my adult life defending Sega against people who thought they knew better, but there’s one game that completely scrambled...
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Why Shigeru Miyamoto’s Games Still Hit Different After All These Years
Christmas 1982, I was five years old, and my parents surprised me with an Atari 2600. But honestly? The real magic didn’t happen until a...
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Eight Platformers That Ruined Me for Life (And I Regret Nothing)
Christmas 1985 was supposed to be about getting a bike. I’d been dropping hints for months, circling the red Schwinn in the Sears catalog, leaving...
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How A Construction Guy Fell Hard for Hyrule (And Why It Took 40 Years)
I’ll be straight with you – I came to The Legend of Zelda embarrassingly late in life. While most people have childhood memories of first...
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Why the N64 Completely Changed Gaming (And Why I Was Wrong About It)
I’ll be honest – when the Nintendo 64 launched in 1996, I wasn’t exactly queuing up at Dixons to get one. I was twenty-one, had...
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Why Banjo-Kazooie Made Me Question Everything I Thought I Knew About 3D Platformers
Right, so I need to come clean about something that might make me sound like a proper gaming heretic – I never actually played Banjo-Kazooie...
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How GoldenEye on N64 Nearly Destroyed My University Social Life (In the Best Way)
Right, so this is going to sound mental, but I need to tell you about the time a James Bond game basically took over my...
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The Day Metroid Taught Me That Getting Lost Could Be Fun
Man, I can still remember the exact moment Metroid clicked for me, and it wasn’t even on a Sega system – yeah, I know, sacrilege...
