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The Screen Was Never the Point

I opened a Game Boy this morning. Grey shell, yellowed with thirty-five years. The screen was dim, blurry by any modern measure. Yet this machine sold 119 million units. Gunpei...

The Four AA Batteries That Changed Everything

When I hold a Game Boy from 1989, I feel the weight of a decision. Not the console itself—it weighs only 220 grams. I mean the choices embedded in it....

It Looks Like They Shipped the Prototype

It Looks Like They Shipped the Prototype

When I open an early gray Sega Saturn, I always think the same thing: someone shipped the prototype. The wiring runs everywhere, the parts sit where they landed. But that...

A Machine Built to Come Back to Life

A Machine Built to Come Back to Life

A Neo Geo lands on my bench heavier than a home console has any right to be. What surprises people is how readily these come back. There is a reason.

We All Knew How to Strip a Wire

We All Knew How to Strip a Wire

In 1986 the Famicom reached the television through an RF switch, and the RF switch failed. So we opened it. Strip the cable back with a knife, get the copper...

Nobody Thought We Would Still Be Playing

Nobody Thought We Would Still Be Playing

A PC Engine Duo came across the bench this week. Black, flat, not one unnecessary line on it anywhere. It is also, almost always, leaking. A surface-mount capacitor does not...

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