Why are millennials and Gen Z lining up at record stores and trading mixtapes when a world of infinite playlists sits in their pockets? This is a deep dive into the tactile, noisy, and stubbornly analog pleasures of vinyl and cassette collecting - with voices from collectors and industry insiders explaining the comeback.
The Atari Jaguar's controller tried to be clever - a numeric keypad grafted onto a bulky gamepad - but cleverness and comfort are not synonyms. This piece unpacks the Jaguar's one-of-a-kind layout, how developers used (or ignored) it, and what its legacy teaches us about controller design then and now.
A wistful, witty tribute to the PalmPilot - the small device that taught us how to manage lives without lives managing us. Remembering Graffiti, HotSync, the stylus, and the wonderfully undistracted simplicity we miss.
The Philips CD-i promised a multimedia revolution and delivered a handful of games that infuriated Nintendo fans and enchanted later generations. This post examines the most controversial CD-i titles - why they sparked outrage, how they were made, and why they now enjoy a strange, persistent afterlife among retro gamers.
The Apple Newton-deeply mocked, quietly mourned-wasn't merely an expensive paperweight. Its pen-first UI, tolerance for messy input, and insistence on being a personal information manager prefigured many modern ideas. Here's why designers should still study its failures and borrow its principles.
How neon-soaked visions from the 1980s and 1990s - from cyberpunk noir to post-apocalyptic road movies - have been retooled for a generation confronting climate collapse, precarious economies, and surveillance social media. This piece traces the aesthetic and psychological through-lines, explains why these stories resonate, and considers their political and personal consequences.
Dust off the cartridge dust: beneath the blocky graphics and bleeps of the Atari 800 lie radical ideas that modern indies could revive. This deep dive picks seven underrated Atari 8‑bit titles, why they mattered then, and how smart remakes could make them sing for a new generation.
A brisk stroll down a city sidewalk in 1989: a clunky Walkman, a mixtape, and a private soundtrack. Fast-forward to today: earbuds, a glass rectangle, and infinite playlists. This piece stages the cultural and sonic duel between analog warmth and digital clarity-through the eyes of audiophiles, millennials raised on tapes, and Gen Z streaming natives.