Standing in my local Game shop circa 1996, staring at the N64 display unit, I remember thinking the console looked like it belonged on the bridge of the Enterprise. But it wasn't just the mushroom-gray plastic or those bizarre three-pronged controllers—it was that logo. That pristine, geometric "64"…

The sound of that Sega logo hitting—you know the one, that crisp "SEGAAA" announcer—still makes my ears perk up like I'm twelve again and someone just announced pizza for dinner. But nothing prepared me for the first time I loaded up Batman on the Genesis. Not the NES…

You know that feeling when you're standing in Electronics Boutique, clutching a twenty-pound note that's burning a hole in your pocket, and some marketing wizard in a shiny suit is trying to convince you that what your perfectly good Mega Drive really needs is a CD drive the…

The first time I laid eyes on Shinobi III's opening sequence, I was planted cross-legged on our living room carpet with a cup of lukewarm tea going cold beside me. My mate Dave had brought his Genesis round—we called it Mega Drive back then, obviously—and he was practically…