Is the lack of security bits handy preventing you from opening up your consoles? Wonder no more what the inner workings look like! Flickr user Reintji has taken X-Ray photos of several pieces of hardware, ranging from consoles to controllers and game cartridges. Check out the rest of Reintji’s X-Ray Funnies set for other consoles [...]

IGN has written a fairly lengthly article about the History of SEGA. Most everyone is familiar with the company’s history starting with the Genesis, but there is quite a bit more to SEGA than that. There will never be another SEGA. While their reign as a first-party has long ended, and the name hardly carries [...]

Spotted at TinyCartridge.com. White front, black back, black controls, improved sound output, backlight. Awesome.

I don’t know how they got them, but ThinkGeek found a bunch of new-in-box Dreamcasts and are putting them up for sale! Get yours before they sell out! Shoot, they already sold out?? Hopefully they will get more!

From an article at arstechnica: Twenty years ago this week, Nintendo released the Game Boy, its first handheld video game console. Excited Japanese customers snatched up the innovative monochrome handheld by the thousands, which retailed for 12,500 yen (about $94 at 1989 rates) at launch-a small price to pay for what seemed to be an [...]

April 21, 1989 saw the Japanese introduction of Nintendo’s portable game system, GameBoy. Home to many excellent titles, this unsassuming grey box was able to withstand competition from several more powerful adversaries and went on to sell nearly 120 million units world-wide. If you still have your trusty old GameBoy, or you can set up [...]

Note: does not play games. Click for full-size .png to print out and make at home!

A portion of a VC-Reviews.com article: In 1989 the PC Engine was still selling quite well in Japan, but Sega’s 16-bit Mega Drive system was beginning to pick up steam and Nintendo’s Super Famicom console was looming just around the corner. Sensing this, NEC decided that they needed a true 16-bit console if they were [...]

I remember when the VirtualBoy was the hot thing. A fascinating idea, but unfortunately was a commercial failure. Amazingly, a lost shipment of about 100 of the systems has been found in Dubai: Video game retailers emptying a warehouse in the Rashidia area of Dubai last month discovered a long-lost shipment of 100 units, which [...]

Nine years ago today, on September 9th, 1999 SEGA introduced its last console to North American market: the Dreamcast. Despite being discontinued a short two years later, the Dreamcast captured the hearts and minds of many gamers and still is considered one of the more exiting and unique platforms out there. It was one of [...]