Author Archives: 40 Bit Gaming

There was a story floating around in the late 70s that when Fonzie got his library card on the show Happy Days, U.S. libraries saw a 500 percent increase in the number of real life kids getting their own library cards. Turns out the story is apocryphal, but it was totally believable because Fonzie wasContinue reading “Not Cool, Bro”

Back in the mid-aughts, before there was Spotify, I was in a “tape club.” There were ten people in the group and each month, one member would burn a mixed CD and mail a copy out to each person, that way you got a new CD of music each month. (FWIW, my mix was “SongsContinue reading “Gamed Stock”

Two months after they launched, next-gen consoles are still almost impossible to get. Unless you are a ‘bot or some sentient script code, your middle-aged fingers can not click fast enough to get either an Xbox Series X or the PlayStation 5 today. Or yesterday, when I actually tried to procure one. News hit thatContinue reading “X’d Out”