Commodore to CRTs — classic computing and console history
PCSX2, Dolphin, and friends have made retro gaming look better than the originals ever did. Here's the right emulator for each console in 2026 — plus the one category Nintendo is actively hunting.
Tom Ashcroft · Jul 31 · 12 min
A $244 pocket console emulates the PlayStation 2 flawlessly and looks gorgeous doing it. Here's the honest guide to the best retro handheld in 2026: Retroid Pocket 6 vs AYN Odin 2 Portal vs Anbernic.
Tom Ashcroft · Jul 31 · 12 min
the one remake fans have begged for since 1998 is real — a ground-up Ocarina of Time, Switch 2 exclusive, 'in 2026.' no gameplay, no date, no developer. the silence is doing a lot of work.
Tom Ashcroft · Jul 19 · 5 min
Revelations is a 10-12 hour campaign id says is bigger than both Doom Eternal expansions combined. the part nobody's talking about: it ships with rebuilt, fully playable classic Doom 2 maps.
Tom Ashcroft · Jul 19 · 5 min
Blaze put Evercade cartridges and the Super Pocket up across the UK and EU. the cause has nothing to do with retro gaming and everything to do with AI datacenters — and this is the corner of the market least able to absorb it.
Tom Ashcroft · Jul 18 · 7 min
both run the same Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, so the emulation ceiling is nearly identical. the real choice is a 4.5-inch pocket 4:3 retro machine versus a 7-inch OLED big-screen — and one of them nobody has actually held yet.
Tom Ashcroft · Jul 18 · 6 min
on Feb 14, 2026 Nintendo hit 13 Switch emulators with a single DMCA sweep. Yuzu and Ryujinx are gone, but Eden, Ryubing, Kenji-NX and Citron are alive — and the legal wedge was never the emulator itself.
Tom Ashcroft · Jul 18 · 7 min
THEA1200 is a full-size, fully-working Commodore Amiga 1200 you can actually buy in 2026. it was meant to ship in June. now it's December — and 'global chip shortages' is the reason given.
Tom Ashcroft · Jul 17 · 5 min
no retro rig, no fancy GPU, no $300 handheld needed. the software for running old PC games on Windows 11 in 2026 is better than it's ever been — and almost all of it is free.
Tom Ashcroft · Jul 16 · 6 min