8-Bit Thinking
2025
- MiSTer FPGA: When Retro Hardware Becomes a Reproducible Platform
- Steam Machine — Why Valve’s Most Ambitious Living-Room Experiment Was Never Built to Win
- The PlayStation — Choosing Your Own Grey Box
- The D-Pad — When Design Let the Human Lead
- When the Ninth Generation Finally Settled — Why the PlayStation 5 Emerged as the Winner
- The Generations of Home Consoles — From Dedicated Boxes to Switch 2
- HD, Subscriptions, and Hybrids — From the 360 Era to Switch 2
- DVD Players, Modems, and Hard Drives — Consoles Become Living-Room Appliances
- When CDs Beat Cartridges — The Deal That Created PlayStation
- Curation, Characters, and Enhancement Chips — The Rulebook of the Modern Console
- From Dedicated Boxes to Swappable Software — How Home Consoles Became Platforms
- Nintendo Switch 2 — Structural Failure in a Wildly Successful Console
- How Game Consoles Achieved Backward Compatibility: A Hidden Technological History from Hardware Inheritance to Software Emulation
- The CECHA — When PlayStation Reached Its Most Ambitious Form
- Nintendo Switch — A Long Bet on the Hybrid Console
- The Early GameCube — When Nintendo’s Hidden Ports Defined Its Legacy
2024
- Analogue Pocket — FPGA Luxury In A Game Boy Silhouette
- Two Modern Game & Watch Consoles — Mario and Zelda Anniversary Editions
- GBSC — A DIY Bridge Between Analog Retro Video and Modern HDMI
- Nintendo 64 — High-Risk Hardware in the Move to 3D