Killed By Zip: The Rise and Fall of SyQuest

This Does Not Compute In the 80s and early 90s, when people needed to make their data portable and a floppy disk wouldn’t do, they often used a SyQuest drive. But in 1994, that all changed.

Why Hot-Hatches are Now Faster than Old Supercars

Driven Media There has been a whole load of new hot hatches setting OUTRAGEOUS times at the Nurburgring, and by that, I mean way faster than some of the supercars that used to top the rankings. Look, this Audi RS3 is faster around the lap than a Pagani Zonda S, the Honda Civic Type R […]

Ken Williams | Co-Founder of Sierra On-Line – Retro Tea Break

Ken and Roberta Williams created Sierra On-Line in 1979 with their first graphical adventure game for the Apple II compute “Mystery House”. From these humble beginnings the world opened up for them and with games such as Police Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry and Kings Quest, Sierra rocketed to the top of the charts […]

Why Crowd Funded Consoles like the Intellivision Amico Always Fail…

The Intellivision Amico is the latest crowd funded game console to run out of steam, leaving pre-order customers and investors in the lurch. Why does this always happen? We’ll investigate why it’s so hard to make a console and why several thousand preorders is not enough. Lon.TV