Inspired by my colleague’s video of his thoughts on the Sony PlayStation‘s 20th anniversary, I thought I would share my own remembrances. The original PlayStation console was released on December 3, 1994, in Japan, and in the US on September 9, 1995. While it was on the latter date that I...
Thanks to Kris Pyrz in the Facebook Group, I Am a Classic Videogamer, for the heads-up on a rendering of Palmtex’s PVS handheld videogame system in the May 1983 issue of Video Game magazine. Here’s what the bottom half of page 10 of that issue looks like: To say the...
The 35th Amazon.com review for one of our recent books, CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy’s Underdog Computer, just hit, and it’s another five stars! Hitting this latest milestone is yet another great example of the tremendous support we’ve received for this particular book, which my co-author and I greatly appreciate,...
I’m happy to report that – at least based on the early going – my transition back to the iPhone from Android is a resounding success. While I’ve only had the iPhone 6 Plus for effectively three days, I’ve been able to do every possible real world test that I...
Amazon.com has a great deal at just $50 for the Xbox One Stereo Headset, one of the accessories we recommended in our book, My Xbox One. It comes with the headset (which has a built-in microphone) as well as the controller adapter, which usually sells for at least $25 by...
Noticing a pattern of particularly high (and completely justified) interest over the past several days after several friends and family commented on and forwarded me links to the newly unveiled Internet Arcade, I thought it might be useful to create a quick blog post about my experiences getting this wonderful service running. While...
Having recently upgraded my wife’s iPhone 5 to an iPhone 6 Plus on AT&T, we were able to take advantage of the AT&T Trade-in Program. Normally, we go through trade-in services like Gazelle or sell through eBay, but in this case the trade-in value was higher than Gazelle‘s and (presumably)...
Recent homebrews for MSX, ColecoVision, Intellivision, CreatiVision, Dragon, Turbo-Grafx/16, Vectrex
Here are some quick photos of recent multi-platform homebrews I’ve been checking out: MSX platform: Uridium (an incredible port of the Commodore 64 technical tour de force), Jawbreaker II (a port of the TI-99/4a version of the maze game classic), and Monster Sound FM Paq Cartridge (an MSX MUSIC / FM PAC 100% compatible...
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