Blaze Entertainment have done a marvellous job of finding themselves a niche in the gaming space with their Evercade line of products with the platform not only providing a unique slice of retro gaming but a number of indie titles that really show that the system is carving […]
Back in January Retro Games, creators of TheC64 series of emulation consoles announced an Atari 8bit version that appears inspired in all the right ways and I like what I see so far. As the name suggests, The 400 Mini takes its design cues from the original Atari […]
Getting back to playing games on my “work in progress” Atari STE has been great and the experience has been as fun as I hoped. Upgrading the joystick was a great idea but I hadn’t thought the mouse would need any attention. I was wrong! Though the Atari […]
The recent batch of games that arrived on Xbox Game Pass included a number of titles including Power Wash Simulator and Escape Academy but it turns out another game from that group that was catering for a much younger audience gained a lot of buzz and at least […]
After investing in an UltraSatan and a new joystick for my work-in-progress Atari STE, I settled into some further retro games fun and checked out a few chestnuts. Doing so eventually exposed a rather serious problem that I had missed earlier and in the long term could’ve caused […]
Spending a few hours on my Atari STE playing games and I think I finally reached a point where my trusty Atari CX40 joystick just doesn’t cut it anymore. It’s not so much that it’s not working but more that after years of using ergonomic controllers the cramping […]
Now that I’ve settled in with my “new” Atari STE I wanted to get the mass storage issue resolved so I went the route of the UltraSatan device which emulates an Atari compatible external Hard Disk but supports storage sizes limited only by the SD cards you use. […]
Though I do already have an Atari STFM in my retro computer collection there are a couple of limitations with that model that made upgrades less appealing and I REALLY wanted to finally start tinkering around one. Memory upgrades need soldering in early STs, the operating system (known […]
I’m happy to admit that I’m a massive fan of the original Xbox Elite Controller. Despite criticisms of build quality I had few problems with mine since picking it up at launch back in 2015. My experience was so good that I’d say it’s the best controller I’ve […]
I was pretty late to the party when it came to using a headset for gaming. Apart from using the old Xbox chat headset on the Xbox 360 for party talk I didn’t think anything could beat a decent set of speakers. A lot of that changed though […]