Gone are the days when we thought gaming was only about having fun. If you get the opportunity to make gaming a full-time source of wealth, your dreams of having fun while you get rich could come true. Playing video games gives you more chances…
My collection of movie novelisations is growing. I’ve got nearly sixty now. But I think I’ve only read two of them. That needs to change, so I’ve vowed to try to read one per month, amongst reading other books, while I increase my reading quota…
They say that music and smell can be the best triggers of nostalgia. I find that to be absolutely true. You can check out my Top Ten Nostalgia Songs that I previously listed, but today I wanted to go through the smells that trigger memories…
We regularly hear the same phrase: “The death of game consoles is coming soon!”. It seems that the players’ opinion doesn’t matter, and that there’s some kind of morbid urgency to bury our machines. Among the supposed gravediggers: the PC of course, the smartphone, the…
Often people say that you are either a dog person or a cat person. Personally I don’t like labels like that. There are can always be shades of inbetween. I am generally much more of a dog person, but I’m not against cats in any way. They just…
In the early to mid-1980s, the popularity of games like Super Mario, Pac-Man, and Space Invaders had every kid either talking about video games or obsessively playing them. A 1982 cover of Time magazine excitedly screamed that video games were blitzing the world. Children were…
The 80s were awash with cinematic sword and sorcery adventures. And most of them stand up as great movies to this day. Here are our top ten picks. If you haven’t yet seen all the films on this list, you don’t know what you’re missing!…
Mobile gaming is now a huge multibillion-dollar industry. Driven by convenience, innovative technology, and massive investment, the market boasts a widespread appeal that saw App Store and Google Play sales grow 12.8% in 2019. The rise of popular console and PC games like PUBG and…
As someone who has been actively enjoying and researching retro stuff for many years, and runs a retro website, it can be hard for me to get that ‘nostalgia hit’ as strong as I used to. Just because a lot of things have become ‘fresh’…
It’s always exciting when another book from Bitmap Books drops through the letterbox. This time it’s the turn of the Atari 2600/7800 to get the Bitmap Books treatment. I’m a bit of a fanboy of Bitmap Books. I’ve got all their Visual Compendiums, as you…