(Not) Taming the Backlog

If I die, let it be beneath a mound of unplayed video games. Might as well accept the inevitable, right?

August 3, 2023 · 6 min · 1142 words · Tipa

Is playing on the original hardware worth the trouble?

I went through a lot of trouble to be able to play Ogre Battle 64 on the original hardware with today’s high resolution, digital monitors. Was it worth it? Intro from original hardware Most older consoles were designed around the old cathode ray tube televisions – one to three electron beams use electromagnets to shine on variously colored phosphors. The whole thing was high voltage and prone to interference from anything else going on electrically in the area. ...

July 11, 2022 · 5 min · 951 words · Tipa

Panzer Dragoon: The Remake

Needle drop some , and you could pretend this post-apocalyptic arcade shooter is the iconic Taarna segment from the Heavy Metal movie. It’s all the otherworldly rails shooter action you could want in a game. Panzer Dragoon Remake cases, PS4 and Sega Saturn A long, long time ago, there was a little game called Starfox, for the Super Nintendo. It was a rails-based shooter that took Star Fox, Fox McCloud and his three friends, Slippy Toad, Peppy Hare, and Falco Lombardi, on an adventure that stretched from the land into space. ...

September 6, 2021 · 4 min · 815 words · Tipa