I've added a new section to the website. I couldn't think of any suitable Jet Set Willy references so I just called it 'Extra Life' because it's ostensibly going to be about little quirky extra things that can extend the life of a system. Easter Eggs, hidden content, etc will all be explored.
The first article is already up and it explores the hidden content that can be unlocked when you insert Neo Geo Pocket Color cartridges into a monochrome Neo Geo Pocket...including a whole extra game!

You can check it out directly, here:  Neo Geo Pocket - The secret screens

In other news I've disabled the mobile version of the website. I just wasn't happy with the forced aesthetics and the fact that it kept displaying generic pictures of cameras instead of the borders I'd lovingly crafted. You can still view the website on your mobile but it will now display exactly as the website does.
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Sorry if that is an inconvenience. I just don't want a forced layout that I'm not 100% happy with.

In happier news, I just beat the wonderswan version of Klonoa. I enjoyed it very much and I think it will be the first Wonderswan game reviewed for the Forgotten Abbey.

A trip to Akihabara a few years back left me in possession of not one but two Swan Crystals (the best iteration of the WonderSwan handheld.)
The poor visibility (even with a TFT screen) has always left me struggling to want to play it. I was happy, therefore to pick up this front-lit WonderSwan for only £15. Despite the screen suffering from a little bit of LCD bleeding, it's been so enjoyable to finally play these games without straining my eyes. Surprisingly the ghosting isn't anywhere near as bad as I had been expecting. I'm now hunting for more cheap titles and perhaps have just decided on which obsolete handheld to cover next in the ever expanding Forgotten Abbey section of the website.

A nice #Gamedrop to round off August as this little package arrived from Italy. Three new games to review for the GameKing and what appears to be a rare orange version of the GameKing console itself.

#GameKing

Hats off to the chaps at My Life in Gaming for their excellent video suggesting a storage solution to displaying Gameboy games.
As you can see, these acrylic display stands (originally designed for stores to display nail polish of all things) also make wonderful cartridge displays for obsolete systems like the Mega Duck, SuperVision and GameKing!

Firstly, thank you for visiting.

Secondly, welcome to the Banyan Tree, a regular blog covering voyages through the forgotten worlds of gaming's past.

This website was born out of a genuine passion for the quirkier side of retro gaming. Retro gaming isn't a niche interest anymore. One glance at Ebay will teach you that painful lesson. It's a big business nostalgia trip that even Nintendo is now coming on board to, with the announcement of the NES Mini.

However, Obsolete Worlds isn't here to review Super Mario Bros for the 1000th time, as beloved as it may be to us. Instead our mission is to cover the unloved consoles and home computers of gaming's past, the defunct handhelds and warped cassette tapes of yesteryear. To document and preserve the forgotten software of these misunderstood devices and ensure that if people with similar interests want to google them and discuss them, they can find the information that they need and a place to do so with like-minded enthusiasts.

If you head on over to 'The Forgotten Abbey' you'll see that we've made a start with a quest to review and document every game released for three particularly unloved handhelds, the Timlex Megaduck, the Watara Supervision and the Timetop GameKing.

If you jump on over to the 'Off Licence' you'll find an ever expanding chronicle of knock-off hardware and curious clone systems. To start off, we've full system reviews of the GB Boy Colour and Game Theory Admiral, with a lot more content to come over the coming weeks.

Other sections are already planned and in the pipeline but in the meantime, stay tuned to this blog for regular updates and thanks once again for reading Obsolete Worlds.