CategoryRetro & Culture

My Japanese Retro Gaming Collection

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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...

The Commodore 64 Ultimate: Commodore’s Nostalgic Comeback

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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...

Game & Watch : Why I Started Collecting Nintendo’s First Handhelds

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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...

MiSTer FPGA – The Ultimate Way to Experience Retro Gaming

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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 the CRT Isn’t Just a Display — It’s Part of the Game

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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...

Give a little credit to our public schools

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