Editorials.
Counterfactual history, industry profiles, retro PC culture, game preservation, and re-reviews of our own 1998–2002 verdicts. Long-form, researched, opinionated.
PC gaming from the late 1980s through the early 2000s. Hardware, software, big boxes, and the culture around all of it. Personal history and object history in equal measure.
Save State
Series 01
One changed variable. Realistic outcomes only. No power fantasy timelines. Each entry takes a defining moment in gaming history and asks what happens if one thing goes differently.
Makers & Breakers
Series 02
The people behind gaming's inflection points. One subject, one act, and the consequences that rippled forward. Industry history told through the decisions that actually changed things.
The Beige Years
Series 03
PC gaming from the late 1980s through the early 2000s. Hardware, software, big boxes, and the culture around all of it. Personal history and object history in equal measure.
Last Save
Series 04
The games that died and the people who brought them back. Fan servers, reverse engineering, emulation, and preservation in all its legal grey-area forms.
Replay
Series 05
A game POCG reviewed in the original 1998–2002 run, re-reviewed today. The in-period verdict and the modern one, side by side: what held up, what didn't, and what we got wrong the first time.
From the Zip Disks
Series 06
Behind the scenes of recovering the original 1998–2002 POCG archive from a stack of Zip disks. What was on each disk, what survived, what's still missing, and the weird artifacts of hand-written 1999 HTML.
Callsign
Series 07
Handles, gamertags, clan tags, and the identities we built before our real names followed us everywhere. Gamer identity from GeoCities guestbooks to the persistent profile.
Top Loader
Series 08
Themed best-of lists with a point of view: the games worth loading up for a season, an occasion, or a system, ranked with a reason. No filler and no shopping lists, just the picks and the argument behind each one.
Standalone editorials that stand on their own: opinion, analysis, and longer-form writing that is not part of an ongoing series.