Nintendo Switch Online’s Expansion Pack gets new Genesis games
Nintendo and Sega are adding even more games to the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service. As part of the $50-per-year Expansion Pack, players can...
Analogue Mega SG review – An excellent console for old Sega games
If you want to play some old Sega games, you have no shortage of options. You can get the Genesis Classics collection on PC...
The art and legacy of the ’90s console war
Two rival machines with competing ad campaigns set much of the groundwork for gamer-to-gamer relations, both then and now.
Nintendo’s biggest successes — and fumbles — from the era of the Super NES
It’s been 25 years since the Super Famicom — better known to us Westerners as the Super Nintendo, or SNES — launched to long lines...
How one person collected more than 5,000 games — and why he's selling them
With several complete sets, this collection is one of the most impressive to ever appear on eBay.
Sega Genesis's 25th anniversary: The 5 games that defined the legendary console
On its 25th birthday, we look at the five games that helped shape the Genesis's legacy.
Sega Genesis genius Tom Kalinske on its 25 year legacy: Battling Nintendo, launching Sonic, and birthing the 'street date'
The console that proved other companies could compete with Nintendo is a quarter-century old today.
Retron 5: GamesBeat’s snobbiest retro gamer takes on this all-in-one classic-gaming machine
I'm obsessive about playing retro games on original hardware ... so why am I playing around with a Retron 5?
Nintendo once accounted for 10% of Walmart’s profits — and 5 other things I learned from reading ‘Console Wars’
To convince Walmart to stock the Genesis, Sega took over the retailer's home town.
Consoles that won’t die: The Sega Dreamcast
Looking at the Dreamcast lineup for 2013, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Sega’s 15-year-old system had never gone away.