Landmark Games
The Tetris Story: From a Soviet Computer Lab to Global Phenomenon
How Alexey Pajitnov's Soviet puzzle game became a worldwide hit, and how a tangle of licenses ended with Nintendo, the Game Boy and The Tetris Company.
game boy
Console History
The Game Boy Story: How Nintendo’s Handheld Dominated Portable Gaming
How Gunpei Yokoi's "withered technology" philosophy, Tetris and long battery life turned Nintendo's 1989 Game Boy into a handheld giant.
Collecting
How to Spot Fake and Reproduction Retro Games Before You Buy
How to tell original retro games from reproductions and counterfeits: labels, screws, shells, circuit boards, chips, weight, boxes and too-good-to-be-true deals.