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August 8, 2020|All Reviews, New Fangled Review, Posts — by Damon Harris Being a mature gamer has it’s merits. Sure, I may not have ridiculous precognition-like twitch-reflexes or seemingly endless hours to absolutely pour into videogames, like younger gamers do. But I have something else. I have a bedtime, because I have to work in
September 26, 2019|All Reviews, New Fangled Review By Rob Leggo The Sega Genesis man…even though I always owned a Nintendo, the Genesis was like the cool edgy cousin who came to visit once a year and “totally” knew a way to get weed from a guy. I admired the edgy hedgehogs from the safety of
March 25, 2020|All Reviews, Retro Reviews By Rob Leggo Picture it…. it’s the year 2000, and a younger Rob, coming down to the big city for a weekend is walking through West Edmonton Mall. Walking by the Pretzel King and the Orange Julius, he is stopped by a vendor promising value beyond worldly comprehension. Why
August 10, 2019|All Reviews, Retro Reviews The Magnavox Odyssey² was always in my opinion, the red headed stepchild of the second generation of video games. Growing up, I was aware of the Odyssey² but didn’t know a single person who had one. All of my friends were rocking either an Atari 2600, Intellivision or Colecovision,
November 13, 2019|All Reviews, New Fangled Review, Retro Reviews The Phoenix is a labour of love from the folks at Collectorvision, a small group of developers based out of Chateaugay, Quebec. They are primarily known for making new homebrew games for a variety of Retro systems, from the Atari 2600 all the way to the
August 13, 2019|All Reviews, New Fangled Review Although I was never a Commodore 64 user, one has to appreciate the importance of this home computer in video gaming history. Still listed in Guinness as being the highest selling computer model of all time, it brought home computing to roughly about 17 million people. People are
April 18, 2021|All Reviews, New Fangled Review, Retro Reviews by Rob Leggo The Evercade is the most interesting console that has passed across our desks in many years. There have been many, many, MANY cheaply made retro handhelds, of dubious build quality and VERY dubious legal standing…so the big question I had when this first
August 22, 2019|All Reviews, Retro Reviews The Atari Lynx is often called the “also ran” handheld of the 1990s, as its sales were absolutely dwarfed by its competitors the Nintendo Gameboy and the Sega Game Gear. Yet the Atari Lynx holds a special place in this old mans heart as it’s the lovable loser I
October 17, 2019|All Reviews, Retro Reviews By Rob Leggo The 3DO Interactive Multiplayer is often written off as having been nothing more than a failed, fad of a system driven by a rush of FMV heavy, non-game games…appreciated more by craft brew drinking hipsters, than real gamers. At the time of it’s launch however, the
January 24, 2020|All Reviews, New Fangled Review, Retro Reviews By Rob Leggo Retro-bit is a company that has been known for many years for making new controllers for retro consoles, but in the last few years, they have dabbled in the consoles market. Most of these were systems that would play Genesis, NES and SNES
The Grumpy Old Gamers 