They Don’t Do Like This Anymore: Wild ARMs

What the hell am I trying to do, you ask? Shucks, I don’t know. A lot about games changed with the introduction of the Playstation and although the change came quickly, it didn’t happen all at once. Once in a while I’d like to look back at that strange transition, if you’ll let me.
See, the first CD-based game consoles were exciting at first, but they were turtles: plenty of storage space was available, but the system’s processors didn’t exceed the sixteen bit consoles’ power by much.
“Oh dear,” said Sega CD Developer #1, “our games play like their sixteen bit counterparts, …read more