Tag Archives: SEGA

BTL Radio Podcast: Tekken 7 and Headline News

June 7, 2017

Hello Enthusiacs! Tekken 7 is out and being a big fan, we start off the show discussing that. However there’s also been a lot of news coming out over the past few weeks.  Looks like I picked a hell of

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Point Streak Podcast: Advertising

September 24, 2015

Point Streak is here again, and for this episode we delve once more into the business side of things and talk Advertising.  TV commercials, in-game advertising, website banners and more are vying for our attention.  Spare some for Jeff, Nick

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Behind the Line: The Sega console that could (and still is)

August 26, 2015

A couple weeks ago I spoke about the Ouya, and how it was pretty much dead on arrival.  It tried to be an open system with its own thriving dev community, and never took off.  Today I’d like to look

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ColecoVision – Old School Goodness

August 6, 2015

I’m firmly convinced that the reason I’m still such a dedicated gamer to this day has a lot to do with the quality of my early experiences. The NES, Super Nintendo or Genesis/MegaDrive were ground zero for many current enthusiasts,

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Control Issues – Gaming Peripherals

June 25, 2015

For as long as I can remember (which, in gaming terms is a pretty darn long time) I’ve had a borderline obsession with controllers.  In the beginning, it was definitely a negative preoccupation: Why is this ColecoVision joystick so stiff?

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The Big Book Of Controversies – Chapter II

October 29, 2014

Nintendo v. Sony 1991 As early as 1986, Nintendo had been toying with the idea of introducing disc-based technologies into their consoles. But with the current hardware available to them, these rewritable magnetic discs could be easily wiped out and

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Nostalgia Fever: Skies of Arcadia: Legends

October 21, 2014

My favorite game system is the Playstation 2, and shall remain so because of the plethora of games during its time. Still, I do recall some fun games from other older systems, such as the Nintendo Gamecube. Super Smash Bros

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The Big Book of Controversies: Chapter I

October 19, 2014

Controversy: n. plural: controversies – 1. a prolonged public dispute, debate, or contention; disputation concerning a matter of opinion. 2. contention, strife, or argument. My Fellow Gamers; When you look back deep into the heart of video gaming, you can

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Hardware Retrospective: The SEGA SG-1000

August 31, 2014

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

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