Recently, I gave my Auntie something unusual for a woman in her early 70s: Perplexity AI. She was born in Sri Lanka, now living in Australia, and she’s seen more than her fair share of technological shifts. From rotary phones to smartphones, handwritten letters to WhatsApp, she’s lived through it all. And yet, there she was – curious, open-minded, and willing to give artificial intelligence...
I get asked this question a lot: “Chris, is it too late to buy Bitcoin?” It’s usually said with a mix of FOMO and regret — as if everyone else got in back in 2010 when it was worth pocket change, and now the train has left the station. But here’s the thing: with Bitcoin (and crypto more broadly), the answer isn’t a simple yes or no. A Decade of “Too Late” If you look at Bitcoin’s history, people...
I’ve been playing with a lot of AI tools lately, and one question keeps bugging me: Can AI ever create marketing that truly connects with people—emotionally—or is it destined to sound like a chatbot reading from a script? Because let’s face it: marketing isn’t just words on a page. It’s not just a product shot and a slogan. The stuff that sticks in our heads, the campaigns we talk about years...
I sometimes catch myself staring at my old Commodore gear and thinking: how long will these machines really last? Forty-year-old chips aren’t exactly known for their reliability. Plastic goes brittle, SIDs burn out, drives die. And yet, thanks to something called FPGA, we’ve got a shot at not just preserving, but recreating these machines in living, blinking hardware. So the big question: can an...
I still remember the exact sound—the dry hiss of breath into plastic, followed by the satisfying click as the cartridge slid into place. If you grew up with a NES, a Master System, or even the old Famicom, you probably just smiled reading that. Because for many of us, blowing into game cartridges wasn’t just a troubleshooting method—it was a ritual. No one taught us to do it. It wasn’t in the...
There’s something incredibly satisfying about reclaiming the past — not through emulation or repackaged nostalgia, but by holding the real hardware. The yellowed plastic. The hum of CRTs. The clean box art. The way power switches used to click instead of glow. Over the last year, I’ve been on a mission: to build the ultimate retro gaming collection — sourced directly from Japan, where much of...
In the mid-1980s, a glowing blue READY. prompt on a Commodore machine was the gateway to endless possibilities. Now, decades later, that gateway has reopened. Commodore is back – not as a fleeting logo slap or mini novelty, but with a new computer that is both a time machine and a modern gadget. Dubbed the Commodore 64 Ultimate, this machine is the first official Commodore computer released in...
Before the Game Boy. Before the Famicom. Before Mario made his side-scrolling debut — there was Game & Watch, Compact. Minimal. Addictive. Nintendo’s Game & Watch series didn’t just define handheld gaming — it invented it. And somewhere between its quirky simplicity and iconic design, I found myself hooked. This is the story of how I started collecting them, why they’ve earned a permanent...
If you care about accurately playing the games from your youth, exactly how you remember them, look no further. The MiSTer FPGA project has taken the retro gaming community by storm, offering a modern hardware-based approach to emulating classic consoles, computers, and arcade machines. As a MiSTer owner and lifelong gamer, I can attest that using one truly feels like stepping into a time machine...
Why Sony PVMs, scanlines, and analog glory still matter in retro gaming There’s something magical about playing a retro game on a CRT. It’s not just nostalgia — it’s how the games were meant to be seen. In the modern era of 4K displays and HDMI-perfect pixels, it’s easy to assume newer is better. But when it comes to retro gaming, that couldn’t be further from the truth. Games from the 70s, 80s...
