Long before electricity was a common household utility, humanity had been building machines to do many tasks that we’d now just strap a motor or set of batteries onto and think nothing of it.

It's the year 2025, and a brand new 8-bit video game system is apparently planning to burst onto the scene. I'm not talking about some sort of NES clone or even retro console remake with fancy FPGA ...

Most people’s memories of programming in the 8-bit era revolve around BASIC, and not without reason. Most of the time, it was all we had. On the other hand, there were other options if you sought them ...