Games
[ Jul 18 2014 ]
Review: Shantae: Risky’s Revenge
Shantae feels like the best artists in the world got together with talented designers and had nothing to say. They were artists, the best of the best, but that’s just not enough.
Games
[ Jun 2 2014 ]
PC Engine Magazine Retrospective
The rise and fall of the PC Engine, viewed through a 43GB archive of magazine scans.
Games
[ Mar 9 2014 ]
Problems with MAME (update: SOLVED)
For a while, a bug in MAME made it impossible to get good screenshots. It’s long been fixed, but it’s described here anyway.
Games
[ Feb 25 2014 ]
Updating the NFG Book
A long while ago I was asked to write a book about video game pixel art, but at the last minute told to focus on something that really wasn’t my forte. So I started working on a new book about the things I wanted to write about.
Games
[ Jan 27 2014 ]
Robotron: Sprites and Fonts!
Ripping the fonts and sprites from Robotron 2084.
Games
[ Jan 15 2014 ]
Repairing Robotron
The long story about resurrecting my Robotron arcade board, and most of its peripheral parts.
Games
[ Aug 4 2013 ]
Tales from the Arcade
I’m on holiday in Japan, where the retro game scene has imploded upon itself, and so my thoughts turn with a distinctly rose-tinted nostalgia to my own gaming history. Things were, as you young whippersnappers must know by now, so much better when I was your age.
Games
[ Jun 19 2013 ]
More Grassy Platforms
Long a standard element in platform games, platforms with grass on ’em!
Games
[ Jun 13 2013 ]
Grassy Platforms
Talking about grass, the kind you find in good old games.
Games
[ May 24 2013 ]
Penny Arcade Report – The XBone Thread
Going off a bit about the XBone back when such things mattered to me.
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