My Old Day Job – Part Three
This is part three of a four-part series, detailing the last year at my old software job. I was a…
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My Old Day Job – Part Two
This is part two of a four-part series, detailing the last year at my old software job. I was a…
My Old Day Job – Part One
I haven’t worked a real job for about six years. I just found my old forum posts about my last…
Rediscovering: Whirlo
I don’t know where I got the impression that this game was a good one. Perhaps I thought, you know,…
A quick look at the Godox AD-200 ‘Pocket Flash’
I’ve been having trouble with my Cactus speedlights lately. After two and a half years four of the five lights…
Wonder Boy – A Sprite History
This is one of a series of articles about sprite histories (see: Mario, Sonic, Castlevania, Bonk, and MegaMan). There are…
Castlevania: A Sprite History
Konami’s Castlevania is an unusual series. For the longest time it was a consistently poor seller in its native Japan,…
Bonk’s Adventure: A Sprite History
It’s not well known that Hudson, the game developer, created the chips that powered NEC’s TurboGrafx-16 console. After an astonishing…
Arcade Fonts: Only 64 Pixels
In just about every game ever made scores, instructions, alerts, and the gentle invitation to insert some currency and play…
A View of Old Akihabara
Things change. Nothing stands still, no matter what we’d prefer. What seems to be a static, ordered existence is constantly…