oobject.com has up a gallery of unique arcade cabinets that were unique for their day.
During the golden age of video arcade games, arcades were blowing up and reaching all new levels of popularity in the states. However, in the mid 1980s the fad suddenly came to a halt with the production of home computers and [...]

While some items on this list of failed consoles shouldn’t be there in my opinion (the bottom four items, actually), it’s still interesting to see what companies have tried over the years. The Nintendo 64 Disk Drive in particular is a curiosity.
Sometimes, it doesn’t matter if you’re a huge company like Sega or Atari. All [...]

I’m willing to bet there’s a few in this list of 10 console game light guns that you haven’t seen before. Unfortunately, most of these light guns (aside from the Wii Remote, of course) will not work with current flat panel HDTV technology, so you’ll have to have an older television around in order to [...]

For many years Nintendo of Japan has had a customer rewards program called Club Nintendo. As you buy Nintendo products you earn points that can be redeemed for premium items direct from Nintendo. If you earn over a certain amount of points in one year, you are awarded different status levels, with Platinum being the [...]

Nintendo Life-Retro has recently reviewed the Retro Duo console, with the results sounding pretty good. It’s a compact system that will play NES (North American and European carts only, no Famicom games because of a different pin-out) and SNES cartridges (North American, European and Japanese carts will fit). Supposedly compatibility is improved over previous “Fami-Clones”, [...]

Introduced in 1989, the Nintendo Game Boy was an instant hit, selling through its initial North American shipment in one week. Nearly 120 million Game Boys (including original Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, and Game Boy Color) have sold worldwide. Despite facing competition from other, more technically advanced competitors, the Game Boy line has reigned [...]

Twenty years ago Nintendo faced its first real challenge to its dominance in the home console market: SEGA introduced the Genesis to North America. With a faster processor, stereo sound, and many excellent arcade ports the Genesis was a hit, eventually wrestling dominance away from Nintendo’s NES.

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PCWorld.com has a slideshow showcasing ten videogame market failures and the reasons for their downfall. What’s interesting about this slideshow is that the usual suspects are not present. Nowhere will you see the Virtual Boy or 32x. Benj Edwards from VintageComputing.com has chosen some very obscure bits of hardware to feature in his slideshow.

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I’ve been impressed with Racketboy.com’s Retro Gaming 101 series of articles. For the younger or newer gamer they serve as an introduction into the history of the medium, covering both popular and obscure hardware alike.

Recently Chrono put together a guide for Sega’s first international console, the Master System. While it saw excellent sales in South [...]

From a post at technologizer.com:
The first three decades of digital gaming saw a flurry of concepts, technologies, and products that were groundbreaking in their era and still matter today. And the drawings their inventors used to document them in patent filings are a nostalgic, charming blast. Here are thirty-two of those sketches–including ones for some [...]