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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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 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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Game Gear Was Brilliant and Nobody Talks About It Enough
Right, let’s get one thing straight from the start – the Game Gear doesn’t get nearly enough credit for what it accomplished back in the...
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Why Pac-Man Was More Than Just a Game – My Lifelong Love Affair with Yellow Pixels
The first time I saw Pac-Man, I was eight years old and it was bloody magical. This would’ve been early 1982, and my dad had...
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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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How Puzzle Games from the 80s and 90s Broke My Brain (In the Best Way)
You know that moment when puzzle pieces suddenly click together and your brain goes “OH!”? That’s what I’ve been chasing for forty years now, ever...
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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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That Time Donkey Kong Country Made Me Question Reality (And My SNES)
November 1994. I was sixteen, had maybe twelve dollars to my name at any given time, and spent way too much of my free time...
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From Stone Age to Steam Age – Why Age of Empires Made Me Care About History
The first time I loaded up Age of Empires on my mate’s PC back in ’97, I thought it’d be just another real-time strategy game...
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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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Why EGM and GamePro Were My Gaming Bible in the 90s
You know what I miss most about being a kid gamer in the 90s? It wasn’t the games themselves – hell, I can still play...
