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Colour Reached the Shell Four Years Before the Screen

Colour Reached the Shell Four Years Before the ...

Two colours reach my bench more than any others: red, and the clear one. Both launched in October 1998, so there are simply more of them. The screen always has...

I Test Every Dreamcast With My Most Scratched Disc

I Test Every Dreamcast With My Most Scratched Disc

When a Dreamcast comes in, I do not check it with a clean disc. I use the most scratched game in the shop. On another console that would be showing...

I Had Quit Games. It Still Made Me Hesitate.

I Had Quit Games. It Still Made Me Hesitate.

In the spring of 2000 I was choosing between a DVD player and a DVD player that also played games. I had already stopped playing. I stood there and weighed...

Six Capacitors on a Super Famicom Board

A Super Famicom from 1990 comes in with two tired capacitors. I could ask for two. I ask for all six. The customer will never know the difference. I will.

The Screen Was Never the Point

A Game Boy from 1989 still opens, still works, and still can be fixed. That is not luck. Gunpei Yokoi chose parts that a technician could still understand decades later.

The Four AA Batteries That Changed Everything

Gunpei Yokoi refused colour and refused a backlight. He chose four AA batteries and fifteen hours of play — and a port that cost almost nothing became the reason Pokémon...

🏛 The machines and the people who made them — Enjoy Game Japan Museum
Monochrome illustration of Max, the mascot character of Enjoy Game Japan, smiling while holding a sword and shield.

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