The Strong museum in Rochester keeps 108 archival document boxes of Bally, Midway and Williams paperwork. Most of it is pinball: playfield drawings, wiring diagrams, engineering logbooks. The finding aid for the collection also includes parts lists for a five-coin multiple slot from 1969 and a three-reel slot machine from 1972. Arcade histories tend to…
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A. If that sequence still comes back without a moment’s thought, you probably remember its appeal: a brutal game suddenly gave you room to breathe. Poker has nothing that adds 30 lives or upgrades the cards in your hand. Its closest equivalent is knowing what to…
“You’re not locked into one emulator or one platform”. If you’re anything like me, then you do your retro gaming across a wide range of platforms. I’ve got the MiSTer FPGA hooked up to my TV, and a SuperStation One in the office. I also emulate retro games on my AYANEO 3, KONKR Pocket Advance…
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More big changes at Xbox. More big news is coming out of Xbox this week as the company looks to continue its reset. There are a few things to go through here, but the headline for us is that Xbox is looking to leverage its purchase of Activision and consolidate more power into the subsidiary….
AMD’s market cap, the measure of the company’s total worth according to its share price, breached $1 trillion on Monday. That’s $1,000 billion, to you and me. AMD’s stock valuation has been on a roll recently. CNBC reports that AMD’s price jumped 10% on Monday, making for a grand total of 25% appreciation in just…
Reviews of Apple’s latest M6 SoC are out, and the new chip looks hella impressive. Sadly, that probably won’t be a huge direct benefit to PC gamers, what with the Mac’s limited library of titles and patchy game optimisation. But wait, because there’s one really important detail regarding the M6 that is highly PC relevant….
I’m of the opinion that your desk space says a lot about you. Be it that you care more about function than style, or you like Hatsune Miku just a tad too much. I’m also of the opinion that someone’s desk space speaks volumes about their real life, like one person may be efficient in…
This message was just sent to Team XBOX employees globally. Team, I’m writing to share several updates as part of the XBOX reset outlined earlier this year. First, we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer. The actions completed since July, inclusive of the…
No, not that IMAX. A homebrew team has released a patch for the obscure Sega Saturn exclusive Cyber Doll, allowing the 1996 cyberpunk RPG to be played in English for the very first time. Developed by studio Betop and published by I’MAX, Cyber Doll is a dystopian adventure set in the year 2039 in the…