Long-form stories, retrospectives and deep dives from the world of retro gaming, arcade, consoles and home computers.
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The first chapter of “Amiga vs the Rest of the World” revisits the classic comparison between Commodore’s computer and the 16-bit consoles without turning it into a console war. Mega Drive and Super Nintendo were often better suited to fast action games, but the Amiga spoke a different language: floppy disks, music, graphics, demos, European studios and home creativity.
From Maniac Mansion and Loom to Monkey Island and Grim Fandango: how LucasArts gave the adventure game its sharpest voice.
Before games explained everything on screen, manuals, maps, comics and paper inserts were part of the experience: objects to read, study, smell, damage, lose and remember.
From Manfred Trenz on Commodore 64 to Factor 5, Chris Hülsbeck, Mega Turrican and the Super Nintendo chapters: the story of a saga that turned home computer limits into legend.
Classic Star Wars games still matter because they turned the films into playable fantasies across arcades, home computers, consoles and online worlds.
From his early years at Konami to Metal Gear, from Snatcher and Policenauts to the break with the traditional industry, and finally to the freedom of Kojima Productions: a journey through the work of one of gaming’s most recognizable auteurs.
Commodore’s decline was not a sudden collapse, but a slow loss of direction, made of missed opportunities and choices that were never truly decisive — while the Amiga continued to be loved.
The Amiga demoscene: when code became art and pushed computers beyond every limit.
The less celebrated Commodore machines that helped build the foundations of home computing.
Two unreleased architectures that still represent the Amiga future Commodore never managed to deliver.
Amiga arrived with graphics, audio and multitasking that were far beyond what most people expected at the time: a machine projected into the future, but placed in the hands of a company that never fully understood what it had.
With the Commodore 64, the computer truly entered the home: a games machine, a tool for discovery and a symbol of an entire generation.
Before the Commodore 64 became a legend, Commodore had already changed its own destiny: from typewriters and calculators to the first personal computers.
A technical and historical look at the Commodore 1541 and 1571, between serial bus limits, high expectations, Datasette comparisons and the clever tricks that made floppy loading faster.
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