The Game Boy taught a generation to value constraints; the smartphone taught another how to monetize attention. In this contentious comparison we weigh tactile joy, creative constraint, ownership, discoverability, and what we’ve sacrificed in the name of portability.
Beyond 'Metal Slug' and 'Samurai Shodown' there’s a trove of Neo Geo AES cartridges that reward curiosity: tight designs, oddball mechanics and audacious visuals. Here are the best overlooked titles you should play.
The Atari Lynx was a small, awkward brick with an attitude - and inside it lived some of the 90s' most inventive game design. This deep dive unpacks why Lynx titles still teach modern developers about economy, clarity, and mechanical purity, and includes composite interviews with developers who say those games shaped their work.
ROM hacking keeps Neo Geo's hulking sprites alive - but it lives in a moral and legal twilight. This piece interrogates the community's impulse to revive, modify, and redistribute classic AES titles, weighing cultural preservation against creators' rights and commercial realities.
How a seven-note guitar phrase from 1902 became the sonic logo of an era - and why the Nokia tune rewired how we understood phones, identity and attention during the late '90s and early 2000s.
Time-travel stories let us imagine fixing historical wrongs. But they also reveal the moral limits of intervention, the seductions of 'one act' salvation, and the kinds of imagination activists actually need for reparative justice today.
The Apple Newton was more than a famously fallible PDA - it became a fertile playground for hackers. This piece unpacks the open-source and homebrew community that grew around the Newton MessagePad, the technical and social lessons it leaves for modern developers, and a practical path to getting hands-on with Newton-era hacking today.
A practical, hands-on guide to building a Neo‑GeoCities site in 2023: keep the blinking GIFs, tiled backgrounds, and guestbooks - but host them with modern tools. Includes cultural context, step‑by‑step instructions, code snippets, and hosting options.