Posts by Jacob

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...

Microsoft made its debut in the gaming console market with the original Xbox in 2001. Ironically, Bill Gates himself was against the idea of creating a game console, being quite content with the...