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I recently picked up a trove of HD DVDs and a standalone HD DVD player off of Facebook Marketplace (damn you, Zuck!) for a cool $30. Despite having a house outfitted with 4K TVs and a sprawling selection of streaming services at my fingertips, I’ve found myself oddly obsessed with watching movies on this obsolete…
What happens when the future gets old? What happens when the hot newness of the bleeding age gathers rust and accumulates the barnacles of time? A friend of mine passed away last year. Someone I’d known for over 25 years. Despite many years without seeing each other in person, we had a regular online cadence….
It all happened so fast. The implosion of Twitter is upon us, landing like something between the fall of the USSR and the crash and burn of New Coke. Twitter’s been my dominant social media vehicle of choice for over a decade, which is crazy. In that time I’ve connected with a great network of…
The other night I booted up my Xbox and revisited an old favorite, Bioware’s Knights of the Old Republic. I rolled up a character and cruised through the opening missions, then the clock struck my eye. It was late and I would much rather be in bed than in my cold Massachusetts living room. I…
The retrogaming market has grown remarkably in the last decade or so, evolving from a ragtag hobby of sorts among yard sale and flea market scavengers to something approaching mainstream. Retail giant GameStop added “retro classics” to its online offerings last year, and smaller independent shops have also increased their stock of old video games….
Well, well, well. Look what the cat’s dragged in. I preordered Hyperkin’s RetroN 5 console way back in November 2013. Then I cancelled. Then I preordered again this March. Release dates came and went. Sometimes the manufacturer would address the delays, sometimes nothing. I began to think the RetroN 5 might not even exist. I went…
Well, it looks like we may finally might have a release date for the RetroN 5. Hyperkin has just released the following picture on their Facebook page that leaves little to the imagination: Post by Hyperkin. Has the day finally come? Tough to tell. Hyperkin has previously announced release dates only to (often clumsily) retract…
UPDATE! Hyperkin has spoken on the state of the RetroN 5. In a video posted to the company’s Facebook page today, Product Developer Chris Gallizzi reassures the teaming masses that yes, the RetroN 5 is real, and it will be releasing. The exact date still remains a mystery. Watch Hyperkin’s update on the RetroN 5:…
Conflicting reports out there on the Interwebs regarding the fate of the Retron 5 console. Manufacturer Hyperkin is sticking to their guns and claim the retro gaming box will see wide release in April. However, with April now just a couple of weeks away and still no actual release date on the calendar, something seems…
Let’s try this again, shall we? Hyperkin’s much hyped RetroN 5 console, originally slated for a 2013 release but delayed until the first quarter of this year, is once again available for pre-order on Amazon. The retro gaming device sports compatibility with a staggering number of older video game formats, including Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega…
Hyperkin has released some new pictures of the RetroN 5 via its Facebook page. The images showcase the retro console’s compatibility with the Sega Power Base Converter, a peripheral produced for the Sega Genesis that provides backwards compatibility with Sega Master System cards and cartridges. View the Latest RetroN 5 Pics on Hyperkin’s Facebook Page…
It was cold. It was dark. I was tired and ready for bed, but instead found myself heading for the front door. As I zipped up my jacket, my wife asked, her voice equal parts sleepy and annoyed, “Are you really doing this?” The answer was yes, I was really leaving the house in the…
My wife and I just spent the better part of a day cleaning up around our condo. As part of the seasonal de-cluttering process, I was challenged with making some tough decisions regarding my collection of vintage video game consoles. Our place simply doesn’t have the square footage to sustain a small museum of consumer…
If I can credit my livelihood to any one inanimate object, hands-down it would have to be my family Tandy TL-1000 computer. While other kids were playing baseball and developing healthy social relationships, I, under the tutelage of my grandfather, was learning to copy floppy disks, code in BASIC, and–most importantly to me–install games. In…