Author: Sheldon

Sheldon has spent over a decade immersed in retro gaming, from NES classics to arcade gems. He's deeply passionate about preserving gaming history and helping others rediscover these timeless titles. When he's not gaming, Shaun writes about the evolution of video games and their cultural impact.

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How Amateur Esports Organizations and Gaming Sites Handle Their Business Correspondence?

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Small-sized gaming websites or amateur esports teams typically deal with an unexpected amount of business-type correspondence. For example, you might one day email a game developer to ask for a code to test or demo. Then, the next day, you’ll be reaching out to a prospective sponsor, responding to a partnership opportunity, or signing off on onboarding a journalist who is new to covering games and events. The reality is that, to a great extent, many small operations start out without any formal business structure. It’s likely that only a website will exist at that stage, plus some social media,…

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Poker Games on the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance

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Majesco released Texas Hold ‘Em Poker for the Game Boy Advance on 1 November 2004, developed by Skyworks Technologies, at the exact moment televised card play was pulling in an audience that had never sat at a table. It was also part of a longer history of poker, casino and traditional card games on Nintendo handhelds throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. The constraints of the hardware shaped what those cartridges could do at every stage. The Monochrome Era Vegas Stakes reached the Game Boy in December 1995, developed by HAL Laboratory. It was a port of the Super Nintendo…

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