A guided tour of lesser-known Game Boy Color titles that deliver surprising creativity, tight design, and unforgettable nostalgia - from cult platformers to innovative hardware experiments.
Microsoft Encarta was one of the first mass-market digital encyclopedias - a 1990s multimedia marvel that transformed home and classroom learning. This post traces Encarta’s origins, its innovations, the factors behind its decline, and the lessons it leaves for today’s information ecosystem.
A look back at how classic versions of Windows Media Player helped move music from discs to digital libraries, the nostalgic features that hooked users, and what today’s streaming platforms could borrow to create richer, more personal listening experiences.
Emulators and fan communities are restoring the Neo Geo Pocket Color from obscurity-improving accuracy, enabling netplay, supporting translations and homebrew, and introducing the system to a new generation of players.
A practical guide to breathing new life into the Acorn Electron: modern programming workflows, game development strategies, emulator-based development, and approachable hardware modifications for makers and retro enthusiasts.
A nostalgic exploration of the early Windows editions of Adobe Photoshop and how the technical limits of late-'90s and early-2000s systems shaped pixel art and web graphics. Includes composite interviews with designers who began their careers on these versions and reflections on the era's enduring influence.
From R2-D2’s resourceful chirps to Data’s quiet quest for personhood, robots of the 1980s and 1990s shaped how we imagine and interact with artificial intelligence today. This essay traces the archetypes, design cues, ethical debates and research questions those mechanical characters cast forward - and how their mechanical shadows still inform modern robotics, AI policy and popular expectations.
A technical and historical exploration of the Atari Jaguar: why the console failed commercially, what made its hardware unique, and how modern emulators and preservation projects overcome the Jaguar’s unusual architecture to keep its games playable today.