Consoles When any sort of new technology is made available for public consumption, there’s a portion of the population that will resist it and a portion that will embrace it wholeheartedly. Consumers of video games are no different in this regard. 1991 was a couple of...
The first video gaming convention I ever attended was the inaugural Missouri Game Con held in St. Louis (where I live) in 2016. Gaming conventions always seemed like cool events that other people attended. Those lucky people that lived within a 2 or 3 hour drive of...
The early ’90s were something of a second coming for the wild west of video game console manufacturing. The early ’80s saw a number of console manufacturers trying to make a go of it after the success of the Atari VCS. Then there was the crash of ’83 and...
Making Sense of the Pieces and Bits Have you ever wondered why the numbers in the names of today’s consoles have more to do with the generation of the hardware family than they do processing power? Let’s cut to the chase on this one – technology has surpassed...
A Big Step in the Right Direction DreamGEAR is one of those companies that’s been steadily releasing affordable plug and play (as well as handheld and mini) hardware for years. Well over a decade in fact. So it’s a safe bet nearly everyone with even a modicum of...