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I am old enough to remember when the Sega Genesis, the Mega Drive for the people with taste and better accents, was a living room saboteur of productivity, and I say this with the conspiratorial grin of someone who still hides a cartridge in a sock drawer (why do I have it? Nobody’s business – […]

I write about video games like a detective who still wears 1990s gamer hair, and yes, I have opinions (unpopular ones, naturally). The Sega Genesis, or Mega Drive if you prefer the more dignified name, is a platformer hearth where speed, sprite flicker, and occasionally surreal rubber chickens were forged into art. Is this category

I grew up in the era when the word “simulation” still meant “we put the scoreboard on the CRT and called it real,” and I will tell you in a conspiratorial whisper, the Sega Genesis hockey library is both classic and slightly insane. Classic because EA basically invented the template for console hockey – teams,

I will be blunt, because I am tired of spreadsheets pretending to have emotions: Sega Genesis football is one of those video game categories that is simultaneously essential and slightly ridiculous, like wearing a leather jacket to a PTA meeting. Classic? Yes. Underrated? Sometimes. Overrated in internet listicles? Also yes, because nostalgia will do things

I write about games the way a sleep-deprived archaeologist writes about pottery, with too many feelings and a suspiciously well-thumbed field guide. I was born in 1979, which means I played my first cartridge the same year my hair was still suspiciously voluminous and the word “pixel” sounded like a promise. So when someone asks