Collaborate Disseminate
[Andreas Wilcox] wanted to get his brother a birthday gift that reflected their shared love for the early days of 3D gaming, but just handing him a second-hand original PlayStation lacked a certain style. So he decided to gut the classic system and replace its dated internals with a shiny …read more
The retro-facing side of British social media has been abuzz for the last few days with a very neat piece of marketing form the catalogue retailer Argos: they’ve digitised all their catalogues since 1975 and put them online. While this contains a cross-section of over four decades’ styles, fads, and …read more
Continue reading The Book Of Dreams Brings Back All Your Memories
Classic games consoles played their games from cartridges, plastic bricks that held a PCB with the game code on it ready to be run by the console hardware. You might therefore expect them to be an easy prospect for emulation, given that the code can be extracted from whatever ROM …read more
Continue reading That Game Cartridge Isn’t As Straightforward As You’d Think
What’s sitting on [Bob Alexander]’s desk in the video below did not start out life as the desktop calculator it appears to be. Turning it into a standalone calculator with features the original designers couldn’t imagine turned out to be an interesting project, and a trip down the retrocomputing rabbit …read more
Continue reading Vintage Console Becomes the Calculator it Appears to Be
Playing a video game online is almost second nature now. So much so that almost all multiplayer video games have ditched their split-screen multiplayer modes because they assume you’d rather just be alone at your house than hanging out with your friends. This wasn’t always the case though. In the …read more
Continue reading Run Your Own Phone to Bring the Dreamcast Back Online
The Dreamcast was a proud moment for Sega, at least initially, being the first console to launch of a new generation. Unfortunately this didn’t translate into massive sales, and the plug was pulled far earlier than expected. The console retains a dedicated fanbase to this day however, who continue to …read more
Continue reading Dreamcast Gets A Plug-n-Play Hard Drive Mod
Lyra is a handheld games console with a twist. It doesn’t come with any games, you put it together yourself (or pay a little extra for pre-built) and it can double as a personal computer and a Raspberry Pi experimentation platform. It’s a qui… Continue reading Lyra combines a handheld, retro-game emulator and a personal computer in one device
Just a week after Nintendo announced the Switch Lite, the company has quietly unveiled a new hardware revision for its full-sized console. Nintendo Switch consoles sold after August will have a much better battery life than the two-year-old m… Continue reading Nintendo refreshes the Switch with a battery-boosting new model
A new retro games console, dubbed the C64, bucks the trend of recent retro games boxes, being a full-sized recreation of the machine on which it’s based: the Commodore 64 (which originally launched in 1982 – basically Victorian times)…
Con… Continue reading Full-size C64 console to come with 64 games plus working keyboard
Oregon-based software developer Panic is getting into the hardware game with a handheld game console that features a hand crank. Called Playdate, it looks like a Gameboy made for (or by) a Minion, doesn’t have a color screen, receives new gam… Continue reading Playdate looks to the past to reimagine the handheld (and hand-cranked) console of the future