Y-You don’t? Well I can’t blame you. After all, it was one of those schemes from the higher ups of Sega who were ready to capitalize on the popularity of their new flagship console of the 90’s. Competing with the CD-Rom technology of the PC Engine, and to attempt to stay above the rest of [...]

Gametrailers reads aloud the dictated words of the Sonic Retro wiki for the uninitiated. Yuji Naka, “creator of Sonic,” would be amazed. Now that’s a fact! Unfortunately, Simon Wai was unavailable for comment. Video Games | Pop-Fiction | Episode 10: Hidden Palace Zone HD Xbox 360 | PlayStation 3 | Nintendo Wii | PC Games

While covering the European Amusement and Gaming Expo, forum member NiktheGreek also managed to catch a few other Sonic related machines on display at the show. First up is Sonic Quad Air, a four-player Sonic themed air hockey table. While not deviating much from normal air hockey, the addition of two players at least spells [...]

So, I was browsing NicoNicoDouga earlier today looking for some specific footage that I ultimately was not able to find. That’s OK, though. What I did find was much more awesome. NicoNico user まっくろくろいの has made a series of videos involving Sega hardware and puns, which, of course, require hardware modifications to fulfill. The Saturn [...]

Game Gear was one of the largest portable systems ever released in the market, causing many people in the early ’90s to look like they grew a massive tumor in their leg. All that size helped in enabling the system to run Nintendo 64 games (and also making it even more unwieldy!) The above video [...]

As the webmaster of a video game website, I tend to get a variety of real-life mail related to the site, but most of it is incredibly boring: server bills, webhosting quarterlies, boring books of documentation. However, once in a very rare while I will receive something so incredibly amazing my sheer joy can’t be [...]

I don’t smoke. Actually I hate smoking and I can’t wait until the day comes that no one ever smokes again. However I do really like cool lighter designs. There are a lot of eye-catching little gimmicks and I can’t help but play with them when I go on a vacation and see them in a store. [...]

The always-fabulous chiptune blog little-scale. has finally solved what has been a confusing issue for some: sound quality between different models of the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. Comparing nine different iterations of the console, author Sebastian Tomczak has given his own commentary on each system and included WAV and MP3 files for you to judge yourself. [...]