Reproduction Cartridges Aren’t Evil
With the rise of collecting and a static supply of desired games, it was only natural that a solution such as reproduction cartridges would arise. The problem is that they deeply divide the game collecting comm...
Cancelling the NES Mini Was Stupid!
Title says it all, doesn't it? With the recent announcement that Nintendo was discontinuing the NES Mini, quite a few gamers and commentators have rightfully derided the decision. The price of a NES Mini on the...
Handheld Havoc: 68 In 1 Cart for the Game Boy
Oh crap, Handheld Havoc is back already? During St. Patrick's Day weekend I avoided the normal "get hammered and pretend you are Irish" festivities and instead headed to St. Louis to hang with the man himself B...
Handheld Havoc: How Does the Switch Stack Up?
Welcome back to Handheld Havoc. I don't really think I need to tell anyone who visits a dedicated gaming site that the Nintendo Switch recently released. Beyond that, do I really need to describe the handheld a...
Handheld Havoc: A Beginner’s Guide to Modding
Welcome to another Handheld Havoc. Any fan of classic handhelds who spends some time online hunting for information will come across a bevy of modifications available for their devices. Newer collectors might b...
Nintendo Switch & Opportunity Cost
Welcome back to Free To Play, it's been a while, hasn't it? I stepped back from this series for a bit because I was burnt out on the topics and wanted to try something else for a while. For the most part in thi...
Gaming On the Fringe: Tachyons
Welcome back to Gaming On the Fringe. In two previous articles we've looked at ways of skirting the lightspeed barrier to allow "effective" faster than light (FTL) travel. What this means is that technically th...
Handheld Havoc: GB Boy versus Game Boy
Ugh. That spelling of color.
Any gamer worth their bits is aware of the clone console market. While many gamers will never look twice at these dirty, back alley gaming experiences a lot of us find them inter...
Why Batman Is An Icon Of Pop Culture
With all of the calls that gaming has become stagnant and that new IPs are as rare as an honest politician, one has to ask why Batman games continue to be popular. It seems that with every new console generatio...
Fog of War: Is Battlefield 1 Historically Accurate?
I started out writing this article intending to detail how well the armory of Battlefield 1 matches the actual weaponry of the First World War. I was knee-deep in the research when it occurred to me: "Wow. They...
Bioshock And Alternate Universes
Welcome back to Gaming On the Fringe. In the previous half of this two parter I examined Bioshock Infinite Versus the Mandela Effect but I didn't really get into the topic of alternate universes/multiverses. Th...
Bioshock: Infinite & The Mandela Effect
Welcome back to Gaming For Official Use Only, it's been a while. I thought it would be interesting to do an article that sort of mixed two of my columns together, and honestly FTP needs to rest for a while. Nob...