Exploring the history, technology, and legacy of video game consoles
Battery life decided this war before the games did. Nintendo's Game Boy ran roughly 30 hours on four AA batteries.…
August 31, 2026
In Japan, this console outsold the Famicom's direct successor for years and dominated its home market from 1987 onward. In…
August 27, 2026
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System launched in North America on August 23, 1991, at $199, bundled with Super Mario World.…
August 21, 2026
A complete, working Super Nintendo with a single controller and no games sells for roughly $60 to $110 as of…
August 17, 2026
Nintendo's worst hardware year and Sega's best both trace back to the same date on the calendar. On August 14,…
August 12, 2026
The overlap between video games and gambling is usually argued as a content question — whether a slot-machine minigame belongs…
August 7, 2026
August 14, 1989. A truck pulls into a handful of stores in New York and Los Angeles carrying a console…
August 3, 2026
Gambling has appeared in video games in two very different forms. The first is simulated gambling — fictional casinos, poker…
July 25, 2026
Of all the controversies in modern gaming, few have reached parliaments and gaming commissions the way the loot box has.…
July 22, 2026
A game cartridge works by giving the console direct access to a memory chip that permanently stores the game. Rather…
July 19, 2026