Gaming History 101

Not only is it important to preserve games as they were, but it’s also significant to compare them to today.  In some cases a review suffices, in others you need to add perspective.

Not sure what each console is?  Take our 5-part tour of home consoles, our import console tour, or our 3-part portable tour.

Click on the link of each console to get a list of reviews/retrospectives.  Additional links will indicate supplemental articles/videos and be titled by description.

• 3DO – Console Buyers Guide
• Arcade – Making a MAME (Multiple Machine Arcade Emulator) cabinet
• Atari VCS/2600
• Intellevision
• ColecoVision
• CD-i
• Dreamcast
• DS
• 3DS/2DS
• Game Gear
• Gameboy/Gameboy Color
• Gameboy Advance
• Gamecube
• Genesis/Mega Drive – Console Buyers Guide
• Jaguar – Console Buyers Guide
• NES/Famicom/Famicom Disk System – Console Buyers Guide
• Neo Geo (AVS or home console version)
• Nintendo 64 (N64)
• PC (DOS/Win/Mac) and Microcomputers (C64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, MSX, etc.)
• Playstation (PS1)
• Playstation 2 (PS2)
• Playstation 3 (PS3)
• Playstation 4 (PS4)
• Playstation Portable (PSP)
• Vita
• Saturn
• Sega CD – Console Buyers Guide
• Sega 32x – Console Buyers Guide – Retrospective Article
• Sega Master System/Mark III – Console Buyers Guide
• Super NES/Super Famicom – Console Buyers Guide
• Turbografx-16/PCE/Super CD/Supergrafx – Console Buyers Guide
• Xbox
• Xbox 360
• Xbox One
• Virtual Boy – Retrospective Article
• Wii
• Wii U

 Above are the many consoles and portables that I actually own and thanks to an amazing local store I have access to almost any game that released on these consoles, not to mention my growing personal collection.  Please feel free to request reviews either in the comments section below or you can directly contact us.