Damien has been writing professionally about tech and video games since 2007 and oversees all of Hookshot Media’s sites from an editorial perspective. He’s also the editor of Time Extension, the network’s newest site, which – paradoxically – is all about gaming’s past glories.
Image: @BillytimeG If you’ve been following the site for a while, you’ll know that we’re more than a little obsessed with Sega Channel — Sega’s long-defunct cable-based video game service for the Mega Drive that was active throughout the mid to late ’90s. So, understandably, we always like to keep an eye open for any … Read more
Image: Jake Smith While you could certainly argue that Sega behaved like a headless chicken for much of the mid-1990s when it came to questionable hardware releases, one of its canned systems, the Neptune, would have been really cool to own. A Mega Drive / Genesis combined with a Sega 32X, it was positioned as … Read more
Image: Sega When you’re talking about the truly great RPGs of the 1990s, sooner or later, Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium is going to crop up in the conversation. Released in 1993 in Japan and 1995 in the West, the game cost just under $100 in North America, which made its subsequent … Read more
Image: Sega Anyone over the age of 40 is likely to pine for the days when Sega made home video game hardware. Even if you were a staunch Nintendo fan, having Sega around always made things interesting in the domestic console arena, and while the company has had brief dalliances since exiting the market in … Read more