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.
Digital voice recorders have quietly resurrected a human art we were about to lose: the telling of true lives, in human voices. This piece explores how pocket-sized recorders turn private memories into public patrimony, includes interviews with enthusiasts, and gives practical, ethical, and technical tips to make your recordings sing.
In the era of beepers and numeric codes, people learned to strip language to its bones. This piece explores how pagers forced brevity and precision, includes first-person recollections, and draws practical lessons for today's overstuffed messaging culture.