I came to retro gaming as an adult without childhood nostalgia, which means I approach it practically. Coming from construction, I understand something about building things efficiently and understanding where to spend money and where to save it. Retro gaming doesn’t have to be expensive. The collector market…

That chunky six-button controller showed up at my friend Mike’s house on a random Saturday in 1993, and I swear it changed everything about how we thought about fighting games. Mike had been bragging about it all week at school – three extra buttons, he kept saying, like…

Back in 1991, I was twelve years old and completely convinced that my Genesis was about to change the world. I’d been defending Sega since getting my Master System three years earlier – you know how it is when you’re the weird kid with the “wrong” console -…

I’ve been gaming since the early 1980s, which means I’ve personally experienced every console generation’s transition to new video technologies. The question of how to get the best picture from retro consoles on modern TVs is more complex than most people realize because the answer depends on what…