10 Best Video Game Console Startup Screens

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The startup screen has become something of a lost art in modern video game consoles. With so much time and effort going into the hardware and performance of the systems, adding in a cool startup intro doesn’t seem to be a necessity anymore. However, veteran gamers surely miss the days of iconic startup screens, as […]

Console Wars: The Ending is Due

Well, it’s about damn time that this article series comes to some kind of conclusion because it feels like I milked it, but at least I gave y’all the in-depth look on a cultural movement that has existed for nearly 50 years, but now it’s the opinion part of this entire massive article series. Console […]

Console Wars: The Handheld Wars

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Welcome to FillerMania, the only time where FillerMania actually got autocorrected to fillet mignon. I don’t know what the hell a fillet mignon is, but I assume it’s meat, and now I want to eat a burger and have some pork chops. Also, the way people say pork chops in New Jersey is weird but […]

Console Wars: The Bit Wars III: The End of an Era

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So as we enter the console generation that probably the rest of us reading this article was born in, the Sixth Generation of consoles is something that no one likes talking about if they’re a fan of Sega, and not only that it was the closest thing to an Iron Curtain than Nintendo’s unyielding death […]

Console Wars: The Bit Wars II: A New Enemy

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The year was 1995 and the only 32-bit console to actually release was the Virtual Boy as the Amiga CD32 doesn’t exist in this timeline of the article. Well, it does, but for context, it was a bad system, and I’ll be talking about it in just a bit. The Genesis and SNES fought a […]

Console Wars: The Bit Wars

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It was October 1987 and NEC joined the console war with the birth of the PC Engine in Japan. When this console was released, the graphical capabilities were mind-boggling, as it was a 16-bit console. Sega would follow suit and release the Sega Mega Drive a year after the PC Engine was released and it […]

Console Wars: The Humble Beginnings

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If you were wondering where in the hell I’ve been since January 1st when the Virtual Boy article was released, the real answer would be “I’ve been making some cash, working security, my feet and legs hurt, and could break like a box of dry spaghetti noodles at literally any moment” but the answer I […]