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The Pioneer LaserActive: NEC Style
The LaserDisc is one of the coolest media formats out there. (It’s huge, shiny, and has “laser” in the name. That’s objective coolness in my book.) The TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine is one of the coolest game consoles. (Johnny Turbo did not pay me to write that) But what happens when the two combine? Well, uh, not much.
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Making of Aspect Star N: "Making" Aspect Star N!
The biggest benefit, in my book, of making games for older consoles is that you can make physical cartridges for them. As a young kid, video games felt almost magical, and that mystique still lives around cartridges for me. Holding one and knowing “I made that” is a wonderful feeling, and one I recommend you try if you have the chance! It turns out to be pretty easy!
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"Modding" the ToyShock Haunted House!
I gave the ToyShock Haunted House digital pinball machine a pretty good review. So it stands that within two months, I would’ve completely gutted the machine, replaced all the software and the screen, and made it something completely different. Let’s take a look!
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Modding the Arcade1up Cocktail Arcade
There comes a time in every woman’s life when she needs to put a Raspberry Pi in something. For me, that time is now; and the thing that requires the Pi inside it is the Arcade1up Street Fighter table. For, though twelve games is good, surely thousands of games would be better? Let’s dig in!
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Making of Aspect Star N: Coding for the NES
This fall, I released my first NES game, Aspect Star “N”. Though not my first foray into programming for 8-bit systems, it was my first project to actually get completed. In this blog post, I want to talk a bit about how I adapted Aspect Star to the NES, and some of the choices I made along the way. Maybe it’ll inspire some of you to try it yourself!
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Review! The Toyshock Haunted House Digital Pinball!
Pinball machines are wonderful and a ton of fun, but they’re also huge, electromechanical beasts that require constant maintenance. Virtual pinball– playing pinball video games on a monitor propped at an angle– seems to offer some benefits, even if it’s not the same, but those are also big and not cheap, either. So as an apartment dweller, seeing a company launch a virtual pinball table for under $500 surprised me. Let’s see how it goes!
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A Strange Bootleg for the Super Famicom
It’s a very tragic story! Many years ago, you see, a copy of Super Bomberman drowned in this spring. Now whatever game falls into this well, when doused with cold water, becomes Super Bomberman! What, you don’t believe me? Check this out!
