The Sega Game Gear was more than a pocket-sized Sonic machine. Behind the well-known ports and flashy mascots lies a trove of compact, clever games - RPGs with surprisingly deep stories, action-platformers that punished and rewarded in equal measure, and shooters that squeezed arcade fury into a tiny screen. This article rescues the Game Gear's lesser-known masterpieces from obscurity and explains why they deserve a modern comeback.

CRT monitors don’t just display old games - they complete them. This article explains how CRTs’ analog nature, phosphor glow, scanlines, and near-zero lag produced the precise look and feel developers designed for, and why modern displays and shaders can imitate but rarely fully recreate that experience.

Retro-futurism is more than nostalgia dressed in chrome. From Googie coffee shops and Capsule towers to Courrèges miniskirts and vaporwave graphics, the past’s visions of tomorrow are shaping contemporary architecture, fashion and digital art-sometimes in ironic riffs, sometimes as serious design language.

How a beige box sold in 1981 - the IBM 5150 - rewired business, birthed an industry of clones, handed Microsoft the keys, and quietly seeded the technical conventions that still run the world today.

A tour through ten overlooked TurboGrafx-16 (PC Engine) gems - from Zelda-like quests to metal-powered shmups and haunted pinball - and why these unique experiences deserve a second look.

Designers are digging into the aesthetic DNA of early Adobe Illustrator - its pen tool ethos, path-first workflows, and the accidental textures of low‑fi printing - and turning those constraints into contemporary style. This article traces the features being resurrected, explains why nostalgia fuels creativity, and gives practical ways to use retro vector techniques today.

Compaq exploded from a scrappy start-up into the world's leading PC maker - and then unraveled. This essay traces the key decisions, triumphs and missteps that carried Compaq from garage ingenuity to a messy merger with HP, and extracts practical lessons for today's tech companies.

A journey from heavy wooden stands with brass fittings to featherlight carbon-fiber tripods and motorized gimbals - how design, materials, and needs reshaped the humble three-legged support.