Games

Nov 22 2014

Twenty years ago today Sega’s 32-bit Saturn console was launched in Japan.

Games

Jul 18 2014

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

The rise and fall of the PC Engine, viewed through a 43GB archive of magazine scans.

Games

Mar 9 2014

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

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.

Feb 25 2014

I’m a very fussy reader. I require my stories to be smart, and the characters in them to be relatable. When a story’s premise is daft, I can ignore it for the sake of a rollicking good yarn, but if the people are stupid I can’t continue for long. It’s the same for movies, which […]

Hardware

Feb 4 2014

I received an interesting thing in the mail yesterday, it’s a USB dongle from iiNet, a large Australian ISP.

Games

Jan 27 2014

Ripping the fonts and sprites from Robotron 2084.

Jan 20 2014

The story of how I ended up working on a comic that was never released. Also boobs.

Games

Jan 15 2014

The long story about resurrecting my Robotron arcade board, and most of its peripheral parts.