Nicole Express

May 24, 2025 Using the Apple ][+ with the RetroTink-5X
May 18, 2025 Taito-tastic: Kiki Kaikai and its Hardware
Apr 1, 2025 The Nintendo Family Computer: Forgotten 8-bit Powerhouse?
Mar 16, 2025 Why I Stick To 1970s Plug-and-Play Consoles: The Radica Golden Tee
Feb 9, 2025 The RCA Studio II Lives On: A Package from Belgium
Jan 26, 2025 Reviving a Dead Audio Format: The Return of ZZM
Jan 12, 2025 A System For The Sixties-and-a-Half: The Toshiba Visicom COM-100
Dec 29, 2024 The Epoch System 10: The Pong to End All Pongs
Dec 15, 2024 East Meets West: The Legend of Makai
Nov 24, 2024 It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Super Cassette Vision
Oct 26, 2024 The First Mapper: Jaleco's City Connection
Oct 20, 2024 Taking an AxROM to Wizards and Warriors
Sep 22, 2024 The Epoch Cassette Vision: Has Games
Sep 8, 2024 Is the Twin Famicom Flawed? The Case of Guardic Gaiden
Aug 25, 2024 Japan's Real First Console? Bandai's TV Jack 5000
Aug 11, 2024 The Bare Minimum Beats: Panasonic's RD-9844 Rhythm Machine
Jul 28, 2024 The RCA Studio II in Living Monochrome
Jul 14, 2024 The Epoch Cassette Vision: Definitely Not a Pong Console in a Trenchcoat
Jun 28, 2024 Apple II graphics: More than you wanted to know
Jun 22, 2024 Composite Modding another Atari, because Colors are Hard
Jun 16, 2024 The Last Bastion of One-Dimensional Analog Control: Pachinko on the SNES
Jun 2, 2024 Yes, You Can Play Duck Hunt Without a Television (but I can't)
May 19, 2024 A Floppy Disk MIDI Boombox: The Yamaha MDP-10
May 5, 2024 Upgrading the Atari 130XE Keyboard! DecentXE
Apr 21, 2024 Breakout Battle: Epoch vs Nintendo
Apr 7, 2024 A System For The Sixties: The RCA Studio II
Apr 1, 2024 ROM Hacking in the 90's
Mar 3, 2024 Another 1980s Sega 8-bit Arcade Board? Flashgal
Feb 18, 2024 Stuck in the Middle with the Fujitsu FM-8
Feb 4, 2024 The Last of the First: The Magnavox Odyssey 500
Jan 21, 2024 Taito's Mini-Vaders: Why Should Dottori Have All the Fun?
Jan 7, 2024 Composite Mod from Scratch: Atari's Pong Sports IV
Dec 24, 2023 Fixing my Yamaha Electone ME-50: An FM Synthesizer Home Organ from 1986
Dec 16, 2023 Nicole's Atari 2600jr Feels the Heat
Dec 10, 2023 The Bare Minimum Video Game: The Odyssey 100
Nov 26, 2023 First is the Worst: Nintendo's Color TV Game 6 & 15
Nov 12, 2023 What Does It Take To Play Truxton?
Oct 29, 2023 How can Space Invaders Invade Your Space? The Epoch TV Vader!
Oct 15, 2023 Yes, You Can Use Lightguns on LCDs-- Sometimes
Oct 9, 2023 Arrangeball Gaiden: A Little Variation with Bandai's Arrange Fever
Oct 1, 2023 My Dearest Data East: Why? Gate of Doom/Dark Seal!
Sep 17, 2023 A Line at a Time: The Atari 2600, Now with S-Video
Aug 27, 2023 A New Ongoing Project: The Satomi/Sammy/Three Star Arrangeball!
Aug 13, 2023 The Namco ND-1: Taking 2D for Granted
Jul 30, 2023 The Parts-Bin Approach: Konami's Contra
Jul 16, 2023 A Dangerous Hybrid: Speeding up the Super Game Boy
Jul 5, 2023 Replacing the BIOS on the Book 8088
Jul 2, 2023 Bringing the Arcade Home, in 1984: The SG-1000 Arcade
Jun 18, 2023 Making Every Ball Count with a Pachinko Data Counter and... React?
Jun 11, 2023 Timing Matters on the Neo Geo
Jun 4, 2023 SG-1000 Smörgåsbord! Cartridges and RGB
May 21, 2023 A Review of the RGB Blaster: No Mod, No Problem
May 7, 2023 Loading screens? On my Super Nintendo? It's more likely than you think!
Apr 21, 2023 All Power to the HuCard Slot: The Turbo Everdrive Pro
Apr 9, 2023 Sega 3-D Glasses: How did they work?
Apr 1, 2023 Another Weird Cartridge! Why doesn't it have a label?
Mar 26, 2023 RGB Modding the SG-1000 II! Is it worth it?
Mar 12, 2023 Can Pachinko be Skill-based? Taking a look at Hanemono
Feb 26, 2023 Every Graphics At Once: Nintendo's Popeye
Feb 5, 2023 Vintage Pachinko: Going Back and Forth Across the Pacific
Jan 22, 2023 Spinning's a Neat Trick: Megumi Rescue for the System E
Jan 8, 2023 A Game Console by Narcissus: The Game and Watch Panorama Series
Dec 24, 2022 The Sega System E: The Master System Supergrafx
Dec 11, 2022 The Sega ST-V's MIDI OUT: A Quick Examination and Failed Experiments
Nov 20, 2022 Soviet Game and Watch: The Elektronika IM-32
Nov 6, 2022 The Apple II Yellowstone Floppy Interface
Oct 23, 2022 A Last Gasp of 2D: The Cave CV1000
Sep 25, 2022 Namco System 12: The Fastest Route to the Third Dimension
Sep 3, 2022 Tennokoe, or, How I learned to Stop Worrying and Save the Game
Aug 21, 2022 Famicom Expansion Audio Double Play: Bases Loaded, and the Stereo Mod Revisited!
Jul 31, 2022 Converting from the Game Gear to the Master System
Jul 17, 2022 The IGS PolyGame Master: A Even More Neo Geo?
Jul 3, 2022 HAL Laboratory's Three Arcade Ports
Jun 18, 2022 Making the Master System a Master of Speech
Jun 5, 2022 The World's Most Popular Arcade Board?
May 22, 2022 Nowhere to go but down: MicroGraphicImage's Spelunker!
May 7, 2022 Pinball Takes Buttons: Building a controller for Panic Road
May 1, 2022 Finishing the job: Fixing the audio on Athena, for real this time
Apr 24, 2022 Imitating the Master: The Seo Jin Super Game
Apr 9, 2022 The games Nintendo didn't want you to play: Tengen
Apr 1, 2022 Mr. Do Proves Our History Is Not What It Seems
Mar 26, 2022 What made the NES so interesting?
Mar 13, 2022 Donkey Kong's Discount Replacement: Hero in the Castle of Doom
Feb 27, 2022 Fact-checking a dead company: Is the Turbo Duo faster?
Feb 13, 2022 Genesis from Another World: the Sega System C
Feb 2, 2022 Neo Geo Genesis 1 1/2: The Alpha 68K-V
Jan 26, 2022 The Teddy Boy Blues Just Don't Stop
Jan 19, 2022 The Power of Cross-Marketing: Teddy Boy Blues
Jan 12, 2022 The Memories of Z80 Past: Zaxxon and Future Spy
Jan 4, 2022 Loopy 2: The Accessorizing
Dec 19, 2021 Fun With 3 Colors: The Vectrex 3-D Imager!
Dec 15, 2021 Isn't she just Misunderstood? The Casio Loopy!
Dec 10, 2021 The Pioneer PX-V7 part 2: Laserdiscs!
Dec 3, 2021 Fun with Linedrawing: The GCE/Milton-Bradley Vectrex and the PiTrex
Nov 16, 2021 The Axunworks Supergun Mini Review, and Overview
Nov 12, 2021 Sound of the 2C33: The Famicom Disk System
Nov 1, 2021 The Pioneer PX-V7: MSX Over All?
Oct 27, 2021 Throw it in the box: The Sega Master System II Power Base RGB!
Oct 16, 2021 The Fairchild Channel F: First and Finest?
Oct 10, 2021 Pump up the charge: Getting -5V from a 5V power supply
Oct 3, 2021 Apple II Audio and the Mockingboard
Sep 25, 2021 Upscaling from the Perspective of my own Pixel Game Art
Sep 19, 2021 The Pioneer LaserActive and the RetroTINK-5X: A Match Made in Heaven?
Sep 12, 2021 The Sega Master System: Third Mark's the Charm
Aug 14, 2021 Alf 2: Collision Detection is Hard, Blog Posts are Harder
Aug 7, 2021 Holding out for My Hero: The Sega System 1
Jul 26, 2021 Collision Detection is Hard: The Story of Alf
Jul 8, 2021 Adaptation and Re-adaptation: The story of Pitfall II
Jul 5, 2021 Valuestar in the Valuesky: The PC-9821 V13
Jun 26, 2021 Review! The Sears Tele-Games Pinball Breakaway
Jun 8, 2021 Neo Geo Genesis: The Alpha 68000
May 31, 2021 A Lot of Effort to be Thrown Away: Sega's Dottori-kun!
May 15, 2021 The Great Composite Comparison!
May 6, 2021 Composite Video: Why it was good then, and why you might even use it today!
Apr 17, 2021 Review! The GBS Control Firmware
Apr 16, 2021 Interlacing, Deinterlacing, and Everything in Between
Mar 27, 2021 The Solid State Saturn: Sega ST-V!
Mar 20, 2021 The failed heir: The Hyper Neo Geo 64!
Mar 14, 2021 How I make graphics for retro systems and retro-styled games
Mar 7, 2021 Pirates of the Orochi: Looking into a bootleg arcade board
Feb 14, 2021 Atomiswave, or, how SNK learned to stop worrying and love the PC
Feb 6, 2021 The Multi-Video System that wasn't Multi-- the SNK Playmore MV0 series!
Feb 1, 2021 Review! The Sega Saturn Satiator
Jan 16, 2021 Using PAL video output in America
Jan 7, 2021 High Speed Coding for the Neo Geo!
Dec 28, 2020 More Neo Geo CD games!
Dec 15, 2020 Will it ever stop loading?! The Neo Geo CDZ!
Nov 22, 2020 What did we do to deserve the PC-FX? (and the PC-FX GA)
Nov 7, 2020 Trademarks and Region Locks on the PC Engine/TurboGrafx
Oct 29, 2020 Nicole gets a real computer! The Microsoft Z80 SoftCard!
Oct 22, 2020 Space Ava 201 Digital Release!
Oct 10, 2020 The Console That Wasn't: The SuperGrafx CD-- Let's make it real!
Oct 2, 2020 Cassette-based multimedia! Can you learn a foreign language using BASIC?
Sep 7, 2020 Why did we need an Arcade Card?
Aug 10, 2020 What on Earth is a SuperGrafx?!
Jul 4, 2020 From the NES to the PC Engine!
Jun 13, 2020 Review! The Ugears Hurdy-Gurdy!
May 29, 2020 Trademarks and Region Locks on the Sega Genesis
May 16, 2020 The Pioneer LaserActive: Can Sega do what NEC-tendon't?
May 9, 2020 The Pioneer LaserActive: NEC Style
Apr 18, 2020 Making of Aspect Star N: "Making" Aspect Star N!
Jan 31, 2020 "Modding" the ToyShock Haunted House!
Jan 24, 2020 Modding the Arcade1up Cocktail Arcade
Dec 10, 2019 Making of Aspect Star N: Coding for the NES
Dec 8, 2019 Review! The Toyshock Haunted House Digital Pinball!
Oct 30, 2019 A Strange Bootleg for the Super Famicom
Oct 9, 2019 Review! The Arcade1up Street Fighter Table
Oct 7, 2019 Battle of the NESlikes! Can the AVS stack up?
Aug 31, 2019 A simple jailbar fix for the Neo Geo AES
Apr 1, 2019 The Canon Cat!
Mar 31, 2019 8-Bit Battle! The Tandy Color Computer 2 vs. the Sega SC-3000
Nov 3, 2018 Making a Fake Floppy Click
Jun 23, 2018 Porting a Project from Concat to Webpack!
May 6, 2018 Replacing the CPU in a Tandy 1000HX!
Apr 28, 2018 Nicole Buys Stuff: The Timex Sinclair 2068!
Feb 19, 2018 Of Floppy Drives and Tandys
Jan 17, 2018 Fun and 'Fun' With the Atari XE
Oct 28, 2017 Designing an Adventure Game API
Sep 30, 2017 Nicole Buys Stuff: The Apple ][ plus!
Sep 29, 2017 Nicole Buys Stuff: The Atari 130XE!
Sep 25, 2017 Unused Content in Aspect Legend
Sep 25, 2017 Nicole Express 2.0 Launch