The Atari we know today is certainly not the Atari some of us remember back in the days of Pong, Combat and Star Raiders but it looks like they are trying to evoke memories from that era with a new bit of hardware they have been recently drip […]
For the last few years I’ve posted occasionally about emulation on Microsoft’s hardware and operating systems as both introduced some significant changes to how emulation apps could run and how they could branch out to form factors that were previously unseen in Windows machines. Even in that space […]
After thinking last year that there’ll be plenty of NES Classic consoles available and I could take my time on purchasing one, I was proven to be tragically wrong when it turned out that Nintendo only made enough in the world to fill the back seat of a […]
After finally getting my Atari ST out of storage and running again, I also got a chance to dig through my games collection and see what was still working amongst all the disks that came with it. Though I did get a few compilations over the years, including […]
After much time spent going through games and magazines from my time as a rabid Atari ST user I finally got the old hardware (and more) from out of storage. After more than twenty years being packed away, they are still in great condition and within a few […]
If you’ve been reading posts here for a while you’d have little doubt that Elite Dangerous consumes a fair amount of my time despite my ever increasing pile of shame. For me it neatly scratches that spacefaring itch and even when I lose millions of credits worth of […]
Classic game compilations have been a popular staple for consoles for many years now with publishers such as Atari, Capcom and Sega revisiting their classic arcade or console titles from years past. The Midway Arcade Treasures compilations on the original Xbox were a favourite of mine not only […]
After poring through a box or two of Atari ST games during the last few months, another box arrived recently but this time instead of games it was one of the prominent gaming magazines for the platform. ST Action was a UK gaming magazine that first launched in […]
The first day of PAX Australia is usually the busiest for me in terms of the panels I tend to visit – it’s not unusual to simply stay seated in one of the theatres and wait for the next rounds of panelists to come in. For the “Story […]
Instead of jumping through a few more boxes of Atari ST software, I ended up taking a brief detour and running a stock take of what I had collected so far for my Atari 2600. My collection is fairly minimal right now – my parents bought the family […]
The story of one person’s attempts to make their Rampage Arcade1Up cabinet do more.
A look back at some of the games we've played on Xbox One over the years.
Our own tips and experiences while trying to make a living out in the black.
The Late Night Session 