Personal Computer. Of all the words to make my stomach curdle, those two are up there (or down there) with Tax Hike. How dare you. But both things exist but are a distraction from the regular flow of things. Console gaming and pre-historic levels of VAT. Superb. Not everyone feelsRead More →
I was just recently looking up the pricing for an original Gameboy on eBay, only to be surprised. I’m not going to be rinsed for wanting to buy one. As a first-time-around Sega Saturn fan, I can get twitchy just thinking about retro prices. It is not a complaint, butRead More →
The idea of light entertainment has always been something a little unknown to me. I like things that are light, of course, we all do. Not light mayonnaise, or any of the other blue-label light dairy products that you sometimes buy mistakenly only to be disappointed with later. I don’tRead More →
GamesMaster, that most 90s of shows; The Word for people who were into Microsoft Word, presented by Dominik Diamond, a man who put the Gear into Game Gear. A show lost to time and perhaps, judging by recent efforts, recreation. Like many, I grew up on this show, loving theRead More →
I do not personally enjoy a forced sense of enjoyment or entertainment. I like both of those things as a reaction to something, but they do have to be at my discretion. I am not going to be having fun just because the developers of a game have decided so.Read More →
A love letter to Sega, in my opinion the creator of the greatest game consoles. How I miss thee… Dear Sega, You really broke my heart. Why did you have to go and be like that? Just to flirt with me, for the sport of my attention? Well you gotRead More →
What do genuine artists think of that much-appreciated staple of retro gaming, the classic game covers? The 17th Century French artist Richarde de Pomme Pom, in his collected writings, Words About Paint, said that a piece of art should be, at the very least, more appealing to one’s eyes thanRead More →
If there is one game that has been closely tied to the success of game consoles, it is the Grand Theft Auto series. I recently wrote a retrospective about Namco at the dawn of the PlayStation 2. I think I was fair. Where had Namco gone I wondered, and further,Read More →
On March 2nd 1999 Sony went ahead and took the attention of everyone everywhere with the first public display of its PlayStation 2 console. Looking like a hi-fi module, it was powered by something that Sony called The Emotion Engine. Or was it called An Emotion Engine? That Emotion Engine?Read More →
