Sega of America’s Genesis ate the TurboGrafx for lunch (CW: vore), leaving it on life support by 1992.

These 16-bitters, which had their heyday from 1989 to 1995 or so, achieved a very pleasing balance of gameplay, simplicity, and sophistication, and could look and sound pretty great too. What’s the word for “kino” but like, for video games? Because that. These were video games. Ahhh, yes. The good stuff. (I am pantomiming chef’s kisses.)

Sadly, PC Engine can’t do convincing parallax scrolling to save its life. But then, neither can I.

It’s FPGA: Field Programmable Gate Array. You can stop looking at me like I’m a nerd. I’m aware.

The CPU in your cell phone is good at what it does, but it’s never gonna be anything other than what Qualcomm or Apple designed it to be because its silicon is fixed. Immutable. Set in its ways. Basically, ASICs are the racist grandpas of integrated circuits.

Wait…I am being told that is not a useful analogy. Apologies. Racist grandmas, then.

FPGAs, unlike grandmas, are infinitely reconfigurable.