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New updates for the massive private vintage and modern videogame and computer auction set for May 31, 2018 in Edison, NJ!

New updates for the massive private vintage and modern videogame and computer auction set for May 31, 2018 in Edison, NJ!

May 4, 2018

(UPDATE 1: Check out this cool Kotaku article on the collection/auction.) (UPDATE 2: PC Gamer’s coverage.) If you’ve been following along on my previous updates, here, you’ll already be familiar with the backstory for this massive single owner (me!) auction. Long story short, this is primarily an onsite auction of...

Play historic LCD, VFD, and LED-based handheld games emulated right in your browser!

Play historic LCD, VFD, and LED-based handheld games emulated right in your browser!

Mar 19, 2018

The Internet Archive has done it again! Joining their efforts to archive, preserve, and emulate various videogame and computer platforms, are a plethora of LCD, VFD, and LED-based handheld games (here’s the link). As Jason Scott put it in a recent blog post: “It’s been a little over 4 years since...

Review: The Oregon Trail Handheld (Basic Fun, 2018)

Review: The Oregon Trail Handheld (Basic Fun, 2018)

Mar 13, 2018

As one of the most popular educational computer games of all-time – heck, one of the most popular computer games of all-time – it’s not surprising that The Oregon Trail has popped up again as memes, tchotkes, and hip card games. But a full-featured, stand-alone, mass market handheld game? In...

Review: BittBoy FC Mini Handheld – 300 game Famicom/NES system

Review: BittBoy FC Mini Handheld – 300 game Famicom/NES system

Dec 17, 2017

The BittBoy FC Mini Handheld is a 300 game Famicom/NES system. While the case design is reminiscent of an original GameBoy, it’s in a considerably more compact form factor. The box. Contents. The BittBoy is available in Black, Blue, Red, White, or Yellow. I’m reviewing the White. Front view. Rear...

The design of the Nintendo 3DS was rendered back in 1983!

The design of the Nintendo 3DS was rendered back in 1983!

Dec 3, 2014

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...

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