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Reviews and overviews of gaming front-end software, launchers, and interfaces that make organizing and playing retro and modern games easier and more enjoyable.

Before Tycoon Games, There Was Junior Executive

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Sometimes the best yard sale finds are the ones you didnโ€™t know you were looking for. I recently picked up this complete 1963 copy of The Money Game of Junior Executive by Whitman. Itโ€™s basically a kid-friendly business simulator: choose a company selling candy, ice cream, toys, or soda pop, then spend the year buying, selling, filling orders, dealing with nd trying to finish with the most money. Itโ€™s over 60 yearsโ€ฆ Read more

HyperSpin Review

HyperSpin Review

HyperSpin, making retro gaming pretty again. Don't forget to check out the interview we had with BadBoyBill here. So what is HyperSpin? HyperSpin is a front end for video games! What the hell is a front end? A front end is a nice graphical interface for an emulator. What is a emulator? Its the program that plays video games for specific consoles. Edit: and obviously Arcade machines! Thats always a good thingโ€ฆ Read more

Puppy Arcade 8 Review

Puppy Arcade 8 Review

Puppy Arcade 8. Bringing Emulation to a distribution near you. Feel free to read the Interview with Creator Scott Jarvis here. Emulator front ends and Live distribution CD'S have come a long way since the days of Knoppix and TuxNES. Knoppix being the first Live CD I ever used, TuxNES the first NES emulator. We have come a long way indeed. We now have Live distributions that are emulation orientated in natureโ€ฆ Read more