Beat Kingdom Hearts Final Mix yesterday. This must be the third time I'm beating the first Kingdom Hearts I think but it's been so long ago that it all felt fresh again. Game is shorter than I remember once you know where to go and don't bother as much with the various collectibles. Still, a very en...

I love the Saturn. I don't own one now but I owned a few around 6-7 years ago. Shameful to say but I fried two of the things, kind of weird that they still kept working but had a weird color tint. The one I did have that was working properly still gave me a bit of issues with losing saves but that c...

I keep reading posts by people in this forum or various blogs about gaming and it occurred to me that despite video games being my life, I don't know if I've ever been as critical or as observant as the people writing or talking about them online. While it's true not everyone can be a writer or writ...

Initially, saving was an expensive operation. So games with auto save tended to be either games that specifically were built around it (e.g. Starflight and its self modifying code) or were on mainframes, where the expense wasn't an issue (e.g. Rogue). Come the mid 90s on the PC you potentially coul...

Pleasuredome kicked the bucket this year. Was the best place to get MAME roms and had plenty of other timeless content for old arcades and consoles, some magazine and so on. Real shame on that one.