We saw some exciting innovations in console technology during the 1990s, which make the generational leaps of today look tame in comparison. For instance, the PS1 was designed from the ground up to...

Nintendo 64 was more powerful than PS1 and had one of the most interesting controller designs ever. Three handles, an analog joystick, and the ability to accept a wide range of accessories (Rumble...

The advent of 3D game consoles introduced gamers to a wide range of innovations that all took place within a short 5-year span during the mid-1990s. You had PS1, the first CD-based console and the...

Back in the day, we used to have these things called cheat devices that you’d purchase to access and modify parts of the game. The Gameshark is one such device, and variants were released for...

When we look at how far handheld gaming has come, it is hard to understate the important role played by early systems such as the Game Boy. A lot of things we have today are descended in one way or...

When a game freezes, it stops responding to player input and the only way to fix this issue is by forcibly shutting down the game. Freezes can happen due to hardware failures, invalid data, glitches...