Pat Long is a freelance writer who has been gaming since Christmas morning 1995 when he first flipped on his sister's new Game Gear and heard the word "SEGA" ring harmoniously from its speakers. He ...

Pat Long is a freelance writer who has been gaming since Christmas morning 1995 when he first flipped on his sister's new Game Gear and heard the word "SEGA" ring harmoniously from its speakers. He ...

Using two bytes per pixel in a color image. Up to 65,536 colors can be represented in the color palette. Most graphics formats provide 8-bit color or 24-bit color; however, graphics cards generally ...

Pity the poor PC of 1983-1984, before EGA graphics changed everything. It wasn't the graphics powerhouse we know today. IBM's machines, such as the IBM PC 5150, and their clones might have been the ...

In North America, the 8-bit generation was essentially run exclusively by Nintendo, despite Atari and Sega's attempts to make some headway. Sega had better luck in Europe, where some old-school gamers ...

A master of robotics who looks like the love child of Yosimity Sam and Humpty Dumpty, running through the forest, scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head. Along comes a hedgehog who ...

The TurboGrafx-16 is making a comeback in miniaturized form, as is vogue for game consoles of yesteryear, and had it not been for disruptions caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, it would already be ...

I vaguely remember playing the Turbografx-16 console when I was a kid. We had an NES, my best friend had a Sega Master System, and then a kid we knew had the Turbografx-16. What I remember most is ...

For fans of the TurboGrafx and PC Engine, the Analogue Duo has a lot to offer and allows these classic systems to breathe life into their software libraries once more. Originally released in 1987 in ...

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