Tag Archives: hardware

Point Streak Podcast: Nintendo Switch Reveal

Point Streak on a fresh topic, the very recent Nintendo Switch reveal!  New details like a March 3rd, 2017 launch date have been confirmed, Legend of Zelda and Mario are both on the horizon.  But questions like online play, hardware specs and the digital/portable

Point Streak Podcast: Choosing a Console

Join us for another episode of Point Streak where this time we talk of that most important of life choices – which console to buy?  With Vernon’s own decision of PS4 vs. XboxOne framing the discussion, we explore how we’ve tended to

Behind the Line: Backward Compatibility

Hello Enthusiacs.  Today I’m taking a request and talking about backward compatibility.  I’ll try to keep it interesting, but if this gets a bit dry blame Baron Fang, it was his idea. What do you think of when you hear

Consoles vs. PCs: A Foot in Both Camps

(Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Enjoy Gaming) In the world of gaming there are those that are not merely enthusiastic about the pastime itself, but unflinchingly loyal to the hardware on which they partake in that

Hardware Retrospective: Tectoy Zeebo

Welcome back, friends. After spending some time looking at the hardware of the 80s, we’re going to look at a console that’s a bit more modern today. However, don’t think that this isn’t a rare gem just because it’s less

Hardware Retrospective: Interton VC4000

  Thank you for joining me for another Hardware Retrospective. Last month, I went over a console that few people have heard about, despite being produced by a well-known company. This month, we’re going at a console that is even

Point Streak Podcast: PC for Dummies

On this episode of Point Streak we examine PC gaming from the perspective of a beginner/outsider.  While most everyone has used a computer at one time or another for work or play, not everyone understands all the ins and outs

Hardware Retrospective: The SEGA SG-1000

Welcome to Hardware Retrospective, a series that aims to tell the story of console gaming through the technology that defined it. Today, we’re going to look at SEGA’s first console, the SG-1000. In the early 80s, the console market was

Enthusiask: Advice for What Ails You

Greetings to you, weary travellers.  Come join me by the fire as I, Oliver Fiasco, provide sage advice, in another instalment of Enthusiask.  Just keep a safe distance back so you don’t get hit by a stray ember.  I flunked