We covered quite a bit of retro tech this year, but there are a few things we didn’t talk about that are still worth a mention. Let’s start ...

Launched November 2001 Microsoft is a software company. It’s right there in the name. On the uncommon occasions that Microsoft has ventured ...

Introduced March 2001 Nintendo had popularised handheld gaming, first with the simple but fun Game & Watch in 1980, then then Game Boy ...

 Introduced November 1990 (Japan) The best-selling 16-bit gaming console, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (or just “SNES”) ruled th...

Introduced September 1990 During the late 1980s Amstrad had been on a roll. The Amstrad CPC range had taken a respectable share of the hom...

Introduced 1980 Games consoles have been through several waves of being “a thing” to being “not a thing” and back to being “a thing” again. ...

Nintendo Game & Watch - original "Ball" game Launched April 1980 Legend has it that one day Nintendo engineer Gunpei Yoko...

Sony PlayStation 2 Launched March 2000 Sony had been something of a late entrant into the games console, coming to market in the early 1...

This year we’ve covered products debuting in 1959 , 1969 , 1979 , 1989 , 1999 , 2004 , 2009 and 2014 . Here are a few of the things we miss...

Launched September 1977 1977 was the dawn of home computing, with the Apple II , Commodore PET and TRS-80 Model I all being launched wit...

Launched September 1990 (Europe) This month marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Nintendo Game Boy in Europe. This relatively s...