Three Decades of Falling Blocks: My Tetris Obsession Started in a Buick
That Game Boy saved my sanity during what might’ve been the longest car ride in human history. Summer of ’91, I’m crammed in the back...
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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 World Is Not Enough N64 – When...
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That Time I Discovered Power Rangers on Genesis...
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Why Phantasy Star II Hit Different Than Every...
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That Time Batman Returns on Mega Drive Made...
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Two N64 Adventures That Showed Me What Games...
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That Time I Convinced Myself the 32X Was...
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That Chunky Black Box That Defined My Gaming...
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Why the NES Never Made It to My...
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Five Video Games That Actually Made Me Popular at Parties (Who Saw That Coming?)
Look, I never thought I’d be the guy people call when they want to throw a good party. For most of my adult life, I...
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Been There, Rage-Quit That: What Makes Boss Fights Mess With Our Heads
I’ve got a graveyard of controllers that died honorable deaths. Well, maybe not honorable. There’s that Genesis controller I threw hard enough to crack my...
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Dragging CRT Monitors Up Stairs and Other LAN Party War Stories
I can still feel that bloody great CRT monitor trying to slip out of my sweaty hands as I navigated Tom’s parents’ narrow staircase. Thirty-two...
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Discovering Chrono Trigger at 42 Changed Everything I Thought I Knew About RPGs
I’ll be honest—when my daughter first mentioned Chrono Trigger back in 2011, I figured she was just throwing another retro game title at me that...
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Coming to Cheat Codes Late – What I Missed and Why I Loved Them Anyway
Finding out about cheat codes at forty was like discovering there’d been a secret entrance to every building I’d ever visited, and nobody bothered to...
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Why 80s and 90s Star Wars Games Still Matter More Than Modern Efforts
Right, so I need to tell you about the time Star Wars games actually meant something, back when LucasArts knew what they were doing and...
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Ten Puzzle Games That Broke My Brain (And Why I Keep Going Back for More)
I’ve spent the better part of twelve years catching up on forty years of gaming history I missed, and let me tell you something –...
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The Gaming Lies We Believed Before Google Ruined Everything
Christ, I miss the days when you couldn’t just whip out your phone and fact-check every mental gaming rumour that did the rounds at school....
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Ranking the Consoles That Actually Mattered: My Personal Journey Through Gaming’s Golden Age
Christmas morning, 1982. I’m eight years old, sitting on that awful orange shag carpet Mom refused to replace, staring at this wood-paneled beast connected to...
