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Jesus, enough with the gaming announcements and trailers!

Do you want me to finish anything?!

By Luke Davis

June 8, 2025
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Game Boy / Nintendo

Now you can run FreeDOS inside a Pokémon Emerald save file

FreeDOS. FreeDOS run. Run, FreeDOS, run.

By Luke Davis

June 8, 2025

Cool bit of fact finding from Josh Average on whether the DVD drive helped to sell Playstation 2s and examining the claim that DVD players were under $100 by the end of 2000.

This Cool Link was published 4 weeks ago. (#)
Nintendo

Nintendo is not your friend

It’s enough. Please stop.

By Luke Davis

May 29, 2025
Nintendo / Video Game Music

f4mi made music music using a DS, and then played it on a Floppy Disk boombox

Because sure why the hell not?

By Luke Davis

May 28, 2025

Side Projects Lab upgraded his Commodore 64 and put HDMI in it and you can buy the parts to do it yourself (links in the video description)

This Cool Link was published 1 month ago. (#)
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Pokémon

IGN spoke to Chris Maple, the designer behind the Pokémon logo

You’ve seen it millions of times. But have you seen the drafts?

By Luke Davis

May 24, 2025

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