Sony made its entry into the video game console market with the PlayStation, a proper next-gen alternative to the old SNES and Genesis. At the time, no other console could even come close to...

When the Nintendo Switch was released, gamers and hardware reviewers speculated that it replaced the 3DS. However, the Switch is designed to deliver a hybrid experience that is a compromise between a...

The Nintendo Game Boy was not the cartridge-based handheld, since Smith Engineering did the Microvision in 1979. However, the Game Boy made handheld consoles both accessible and entertaining in a way...

In 1979, Gunpei Yokoi was traveling in a bullet train when he noticed a businessman fiddling around with his calculator. This gave Gunpei the idea to create a handheld gaming system, and that’s how...

Recently, there has been the emergence of an industry-wide trend fueled by an uptick in demand for retro console gaming. Since people are making custom arcade cabinets and using emulators to play...

The SNES was released to compete against Sega’s Genesis, which beat Nintendo to the 16-bit race. It was significantly more powerful than the NES and could play more advanced games with larger...