Sierra On-Line spent most of the 1990s shipping adventure games with names like King’s Quest and Space Quest, then spent one Christmas trying to sell the board those games would run on. Screamin’ 3D reached stores in November 1996 at a suggested price of $199, the only graphics card the Oakhurst studio ever put its […]
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SEGA shipped its first handheld in Japan on October 6, 1990, priced at ¥19,800 ($320 today) and built under the internal name Project Mercury. Hayao Nakayama had pushed the company to answer the Game Boy, which Nintendo had put on shelves the year before. Engineers reused the Master System’s Zilog Z80 running at about 3.5 […]
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Zac Builds wanted a Game Boy Color that still looked like the 1998 handheld and behaved like something you would actually carry in 2026. His latest project walks through that job on a working donor board, the one part he treats as non-negotiable. Almost everything else can come from current reproduction kits, so a battered […]
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Electronic Arts shipped The Simpsons Game in 2007 across the Nintendo DS, Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, and PSP, and never put a copy on a personal computer. Nearly two decades on, a solo developer going by YesterMester has rebuilt the Xbox 360 version so its own code runs on Windows, Linux, and […]
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Peter Knetter has spent years asking old machines to do a modern job. His series, YouTube in, treats a console or a dusty operating system as a whole production desk. A few days ago, he posted the one fans had been waiting on. ‘YouTube in Game Boy‘ documents his journey to make a YouTube video […]
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Steven at 3D Printer Academy spent close to a year tearing up his own desktop pinball machine and starting over. The first one, sold as file packs after a spring Kickstarter that drew about 1,500 backers and roughly $120,000, already proved a strange point. A playable pinball table can come off a normal home printer, […]
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Nintendo shipped the original Game Boy in 1989 with a sound chip small enough to live on batteries for hours, and that same chip is now running a full drum machine. Drum Machina Go!, shortened to DMGo!, treats those four voices as a step sequencer you can carry in a coat pocket. Two of them […]
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Emmet wanted a living room console that still asked for a disc, so he built one instead of buying a PlayStation 5 or an Xbox. The result sits on a ZimaBoard 2, a small x86 computer with an Intel N150, 32GB of onboard storage, DisplayPort, USB, and a pair of SATA connectors. A USB CD […]
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Game of Tobi spent the last stretch of September proving that Super Mario 64 can move on a Super Nintendo if the cartridge carries a Super FX chip. His video, titled Fine, I made Super Mario FX, shows the result on original hardware, with Mario jumping through low, blocky versions of rooms that still read […]
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Thomas Tuchel has been handed a couple more fitness headaches (Picture: Getty Images) Thomas Tuchel’s England squad is preparing for the clash with Czech Republic on Tuesday but are doing so without Ezri Konsa and Nico O’Reilly. Both the Arsenal and Manchester City stars played the full game on Saturday as the Three Lions lost […]