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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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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That Sweet Sound of Dial-Up Death: How We Gaming Pioneers Survived the Stone Age of Online Play
The first time I connected to another human being through my computer, I’m pretty sure I experienced what people describe as religious ecstasy. This was...
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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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How the Sonic vs Mario Wars Split My Friend Group in Half (And Why I Secretly Played Both)
The summer of ’92 was when everything went sideways. I’m talking about friendships ending over hedgehogs and plumbers, kids literally choosing sides like we were...
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Why the Dreamcast Still Breaks My Heart Twenty-Five Years Later
When I’m down in my basement game room organizing my collection for the hundredth time this year (my wife thinks I have OCD, she’s probably...
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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...
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From Stick Men to Superstars: My Four Decades Watching Sports Games Grow Up
My introduction to sports gaming was a complete accident, really. It was 1985 and I’d saved up my pocket money for months to buy International...
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That Summer of ’91 When Sonic Made Me Question Everything About Gaming
The summer of 1991 changed everything for me. I was fourteen, dealing with all the usual awkward teenage stuff, when my buddy Mike got his...
