Soldering to make friends and influence people for beginners A couple of friends asked about soldering as a beginner so we made this video. We intended for it to be a short tutorial but it ended up being a fairly long video. We go into the basics on the tools you need and then some tips on…

Toys: The Hasbro/Tiger/Playskool VideoNow Hasbro's kid friendly mobile video solution, VideoNow, went through a few iterations, we take a quick look at them

Hardware: Satiator New Beta Update Continuing our look at the beta of Professor Abrasives Sega Saturn SD Solution, the Satiator, we try out the new firmware release.

Hardware: Sinclair Spectrum 128k “Toastrack” We take a look at the last Sinclair branded computer that Sir Clive Sinclair would be involved with, the 128k affectionally known as The Toastrack.

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Hardware: Hori SD Station for the Famicom We take a look at Hori's weird little sound breakout add-on for the original Famicom.

Mini-Doc: Let’s talk about CP/M CP/M was the universal operating system to beat in it's time, then IBM and Microsoft came along and beat it. We take a look at the Operating System that could have been powering everything.

Hardware: Satiator follow-up We take another look at Professor Abrasive's Satiator Sega Saturn SD Solution

Super A’Can Son of Evil Cartridge Scan The Super A'Can by Funtech is a rare machine with even rarer games and there isn't a whole lot of information out there. One thing that was missing when we wrote this was basic pictures of the cartridge PCBs, so here's a scan of the Son of Evil PCB. We'll be…

Hardware: Bandai Super Controller II We take a look at Bandai's (sort of) programmable controller for the Nintendo Famicom.

Hardware: The Bandai Digi Casse We've taken a look at a lot of Bandai consoles but we've got plenty more to do, here's the Digi Casse.

Hardware: First look at the Satiator, a new SD card solution for the Sega Saturn A few years ago Professor Abrasive announced that he had found a new, unobstrusive way to add SD game loading to Sega's Saturn console. Now he's released the first beta of this wonder device, the Satiator.

Hardware: The Sega SK-1100 Keyboard After looking at the Nintendo Family Basic pack that made the Famicom into a full blown computer we look at Sega's version for their SG-1000 console.

Happy New Year: 3 Games based in 2020 Last year we did 3 games based in 2019, this year we've done 3 games based in 2020. Cunning.

Hardware: MB Electronics Microvision The third part of our handheld device series, this time we cover one of the first portable game systems with interchangable games. Whilst MB Electronics Microvision didn't use cartridges as we'd consider them, they still allowed a number of games to be played.

Christmas 2019 Let’s Play: Die Hard Trilogy on the Sega Saturn Whether you believe Die Hard is a christmas movie or not, the fact remains that the game definitely contains snow.

Hardware: The Tiger Electronics Game.com We continue our look at handheld devices with the Tiger Electronics Game.com. Already known for their licensed single game handhelds, Tiger decided to enter the interchangable game market, unfortunately the Game.com was vastly underpowered for the time it…

Hardware: Tapwave Zodiac We start our look at less popular handheld devices with the Tapwave Zodiac. The Zodiac was a brave attempt to utilise the PalmOS platform to make a purpose built gaming device..

Let’s Play: Punch Boy on the Epoch Super Cassette Vision We take a look at Punch Boy on the Epoch Super Cassette Vision

Hardware: Sinclair Spectrum +3 After purchasing the rights to the Sinclair Spectrum IP, Amstrad released a number of machines. None of them were as loved as the originals but the Plus 3 is, perhaps, the least loved of all.

Let’s Play: Comic Circus on the Epoch Super Cassette Vision We take a look at a quirky single screen game, Comic Circus, on the Epoch Super Cassette Vision.

Hardware: The Sord M5 Personal Computer You'd never know the Sord M5 was an internationally released computer, it's barely known outside of Japan. Let's take a look.

Let’s talk about Epoch Little known in the gaming world nowadays, Epoch had a huge impact on the Japanese market in the beginning.

What’s on the repair pile? Any collector of retro systems has to face the spectre of broken machines, here's the repair pile that i'm currently working through.

Unboxing: Sord Vision Another Japanese unboxing, this time we have a couple of interesting machines.

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Let’s Play: Code Veronica on the Sega Dreamcast with Erica Code Veronica was the first iteration of the classic horror game franchise to appear on the Sega Dreamcast, let's take a non-game player, Erica and see how she copes with the traditionally tricky tank style controls.

Hardware: The Zune HD – Microsofts (not) iPod Killer Apple's success in the MP3 market surprised everyone, Microsoft were one of the first big companies to attempt to find the same success. Unfortunately the Zune didn't quite experience the same success.

Hardware: Bandai and Gaming We take a look at some of the gaming devices that Bandai released into the world.

Let’s Play: Kick and Run on the Famicom Disk System We play a football game, or I guess Soccer if you insist, on the Famicom Disk System - It's called Kick and Run, which is pretty on the nose I guess.

Hardware: Music School 2 on the Sega Saturn Can we learn the piano using the unique MIDI connected Music School 2 software?

Let’s Play: Vigilante We take a look at Vigilante on the Sinclair Spectrum, an arcade port of a less than stellar arcade game.

Hardware: Atari STacy Atari were starting to lose the home computing war and were pushing a few weird concepts. One of these would be the STacy, a portable Atari ST.

Hardware: NEC PC Engine Shuttle Continuing our look at NECs PC Engine range, we take a look at the Shuttle, NECs attempt to redesign and cut costs.

Unboxing: A return to the family Another in a long line of last Japanese auction boxes, this time it's definitely the last.

Let’s talk about Radofin They are basically unknown today, but Radofin had a definite impact on early gaming.

Let’s Play: Bowin and The Count Dracula on the Sam Coupe We play the quirky single screen platformer, Bowin and the Count Dracula on the Sam Coupe.

Let’s Play: Break In on the PC Engine It's a Pool game, it's on the PC Engine. It's Break in.

Hardware: NEC PC Engine SuperGrafx NEC's PC Engine line of consoles served the company well from the third generation all the way through much of the fourth. But with the growing dominance of the Super Nintendo and Sega Megadrive they realised they needed something more powerful. Enter the…

Hardware: Tatung Einstein TC-01 Although the Einstein wasn't a popular machine it was responsible for quite a lot of the classic computer era games on 8 bit micros.