Lego Icons “Pac-Man” Arcade Game Set
Toro Iwatani was a young man in 1979, only 24 years old, but already a veteran of the early Japanese arcade game industry. In just two years, Toro had lead development, or been an...
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Cloanto’s Amiga Forever 10 R2 (2024 Edition) – The Best Continues To Get Better
For twenty-seven years now, Cloanto has continued to develop and refine the best Amiga emulation package available, and the January 5th, 2024 release of Amiga Forever V10 R2 is another fantastic example of Cloanto’s...
8Bitdo’s SNES30 Retro Game Controller – Better Than The Original
Building on Project Home Arcade v2, I wanted to add a couple of wireless, authentic-feeling, controllers for use with classic game console emulation, like Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, SNES, etc. After a bit of...
Cloanto’s Amiga Forever 7 (2017 Edition) – Still The Best
Note – Amiga Forever 10 R2 (2024 edition) is out, and you can read about that here. 2017 marks the twentieth anniversary of Cloanto’s Amiga Forever series. Over that time, Cloanto has continued to, release...
“Art Of Atari” Review
“Art Of Atari“1 by Tim Lapetino is wonderful, and should be considered the definitive visual-history of, not just the artwork used on game cartridge boxes, but of Atari and its video game products (home and...
“The Future Was Here: Commodore Amiga” Book Review
Published in 2012 under the Platform Studies series by MIT Press, Jimmy Maher’s book, “The Future Was Here – Commodore Amiga“1, is, without a doubt, the single most comprehensive study of the Amiga yet...
Bowers and Wilkins P5 Wireless Headphones – A Bluetooth-meets-Audiophile Harmonic Convergence
With my recent upgrade to the iPhone 7, I was faced with ‘the headphone-question’. What to do now that Apple removed the traditional 3.5mm headphone jack? My initial idea was to simply use my...
Rowenta Turbo Silence Fan – Hearing Is Believing
This summer was a hot one in the Pacific Northwest where I live. As I struggled to stay comfortable, I began to research various fans. I focused my study looking for something quiet and powerful,...
