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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

The Game Boy ran on four AA batteries with a black-and-white screen, and Gunpei Yokoi said the black and white was on purpose. The link port that later let children...

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.

🏛 The machines and the people who made them — Enjoy Game Japan Museum
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