The Neo Geo Pocket was a brief, brilliant whisper in the handheld era. Its art and mechanics - bold sprites, limited palettes, crisp animations, and compact systems - are quietly reshaping how indie developers design games today. Conversations with three indie creators reveal how constraint breeds creativity and why a forgotten console keeps returning in modern game design.
A sentimental and technical tour from Edison's tinfoil phonograph to pocket digital recorders and smartphones - exploring how voice recording gadgets evolved, what we lost and gained, and how to preserve the fragile audio threads that tether us to the past.
A wistful look at Infoseek - the lean, efficient search engine that felt like a flashlight in the murky, dial-up web - and how its interface, priorities, and products left fingerprints on the sites and search engines that followed.
A humorous and earnest look at why the humble PalmPilot - with its Graffiti pen, HotSync cradle and single-purpose charm - still haunts modern users. We examine how today's multi-headed devices reshaped our habits and propose a pragmatic 'PalmPilot mindset' to reclaim clarity without living in 1997.
A nostalgic deep-dive into the Sega Genesis’s finest multiplayer moments-co-op and competitive games that created lifelong friendships, furious rivalries, and an enduring couch culture.
The 3DO’s short-lived brilliance lives on in cracked discs and flaky hardware. This piece explores why emulation is both salvation and provocation: the cultural need to preserve 3DO titles versus the legal and ethical thorns of copyright and anti-circumvention law - and what practical choices gamers face today.
A nostalgic dive into the colorful, sometimes garish world of Windows Media Player skins - how they let users declare identity through interface, why that freedom faded, and what we lost when app UIs became identical.
A passionate, sardonic tour through ten beloved but underappreciated Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles that scream for modern remakes - with concrete design ideas, aesthetic directions, and fan-art concepts that make the pitch practical instead of merely nostalgic.