Damaroon, this updated on the 1st January 2025 and will update again in January 2026. Amazon refunded all four pre-ordered the orphanage made at least a year ago, perhaps longer.
Damian, we here at the orphanage are worried you are spreading yourself too thin and risking burnout. Please take some time off for yourself and work within your limits.
Wow, what a fantastic article, so insightful, such in-depth analysis of the corporate mandate of Sega management. You've hit it out of the park again Damien.
iconic /ʌɪˈkɒnɪk/ adjective 1. relating to or of the nature of an icon; regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration. "she became an iconic figure for directors around the world"
"They all had names. They became like real little dudes. As opposed to Manic Miner or Chuckie Egg or whatever." - What you mean like Miner Willy and Hen-House Harry?
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Re: Review: Evercade TATE Grip - An Essential Accessory For Shmup Fans
Damliin, Can you use two Grips on one EXP?
Re: This $75 Handheld Could Be The Best Way To Emulate Nintendo DS In 2025
Damian, is this the best budget gameboy clone available?
Re: SuperSega Back-Pedals With MiSTer FPGA, Aims For Lower Price
Damiaan, you trust this guy right? What with all the coverage, enabling him to stay relevant.
Re: Random: Distributor Koch Appears To Think The Intellivision Amico Is Still Coming
Damaroon, this updated on the 1st January 2025 and will update again in January 2026. Amazon refunded all four pre-ordered the orphanage made at least a year ago, perhaps longer.
Re: Anbernic's New Firmware Has Opened A Can Of Worms That Could Damage The Handheld Emulation Market
Damien, are you promoting piracy?
Re: Retro-Bit Accused Of Plagiarising Existing Fan-Translations
Damoon, if you could translate anything, what would that be.
Re: 24 Percent Of Gen Z Brits Own A Classic Gaming System, While 74 Percent Say Retro Is "More Relaxing"
Damien, are you part of the 24%
Re: A New (And Cheap) PS1 ODE Option Is Now Available
Damien, can you recommend a soldering iron? One that can be used by small hands would be idea.
Re: Creator Of New Open-Source Game Boy Disagrees That FPGA Is Superior To Software Emulation
Damiin, do you prefer software or hardware emulation?
Re: WaterMelon Insists Its Terminally Delayed Brawler Paprium Isn't Dead
Damiin, we have two copies of papapaparium here at the orphanage, no-one every plays it. Do you want one?
Re: 14 Percent Of North Americans Still Play Gaming Systems Released Before 2000
Damor, do you play games from before 2000?
Re: Tiger-Heli And Drift Out Join The Polymega Collection
Damoon, do you own a polymega?
Re: Hands On: Quarter Arcades' BurgerTime Is Good Enough To Eat
Damian, No love for replicades? Much better build quality, cost and variety.
Re: "I Don't Think I’d Ever Have Been Able To Guess My Life Path" - Julian Rignall On Five Decades In Gaming
Damiun, What is your favourite book? Is it a retro book?
Re: "There Is Only So Much I Can Take" - Creator Of Roland MT-32 Emulator MT32-Pi Calls It A Day
Damian, what is your favourite midi device?
Re: Trump's Tariffs Have "Changed Everything" For Makers Of Essential Retro Gaming Gear
Damonion, do you think tariffs will eventually be good for retro gamers.
Re: Your Next Retro Emulation Handheld Could Cost You 35% More Than Usual
Damian, who is your favourite politician?
Re: Random: The Gloriously Unhinged SuperSega Saga Now Has Its Own Song
Wow Damian you have an amazing singing voice.
Re: Here's Your Best Look Yet At Taki Udon's SuperStation One FPGA PS1, And You Can Order It Now
Ended up with 3 of each colour, the kids here are looking forwards to receiving them.
Re: Almost 20 Years After It Ended Production, A Brand-New PS1 Motherboard Is In Development
We had two portable PS1 here in the orphanage back in the day.
Re: $69 FPGA 'Tang Console' Can Double As A Retro Gaming Handheld
Damian, do you like tang? It's what the astronauts have been drinking for 60 years.
Re: Creator Of Tool That Resurrects Bricked Wii U Consoles Doesn't Believe Nintendo Used "Faulty" Parts
Damian, do you believe nintendo would do this to their faithful fans?
Re: Random: Dreamcast's Ad Campaign Finally Comes True In 2025 – The Console Really Is "Thinking"
Damian, What is your favourite dreamcast game? People here are convinced it'd be illbleed.
Re: Sega's Retro Channel 'Sega Forever' Appears To Be Rising From The Dead
Damien, what was your favourite thing about the retro channel?
Re: Review: My Arcade Pole Position Racing Player - Bodes Well For This Year's OutRun Cab
Damian, do you own one of these? We've bought one for the common room but the quickest we can get delivery to the UK is a month.
Re: SuperSega Refunds Are Still Missing As Creator "Cheats Death"
@Luminous117 Never been taken for as big a ride as when we purchased slopes game room plushies from gimmeswag. Still waiting for the refund.
Re: SuperSega Refunds Are Still Missing As Creator "Cheats Death"
Slopes game room got all the kids here at the orphanage sucking on fum sticks. He's the greatest.
Re: Gradius II Comes To Analogue Pocket And MiSter FPGA
Damian, we here at the orphanage are worried you are spreading yourself too thin and risking burnout. Please take some time off for yourself and work within your limits.
Re: Interview: Taki Udon Explains How His FPGA PS1 Aims To "Remove Barriers" To FPGA Gaming
Knocking it out of the park again Damian. 2 weeks into 2025 and so much amazing and engaging content.
Re: The $160 Modular Mecha Comet Is Giving Us 'DIY Game Boy' Vibes
Lisa here at the orphanage is a demon at speedrunning tzdata-legacy. She can complete it in 7 minutes.
Re: The $160 Modular Mecha Comet Is Giving Us 'DIY Game Boy' Vibes
Wow, will be backing this for sure, since it's got the Damian seal of approval.
Why change the word work to play with respect to the Debian repos? I wouldn't want to play aasvg, dico or hyphen-ta even with a pad.
Re: Why YouTube Censorship Is Causing Headaches For Retro Game Historians
Some of us orphans here where disappointed the promised top 50 Damian article never appeared during the holidays but hey ho, can't have everything.
Been some discussion over the dinner tables this evening, who was the historian in this article?
Re: Why YouTube Censorship Is Causing Headaches For Retro Game Historians
Wow Damian, opening eyes already in 2024.
Re: Team17 Co-Founder Martyn Brown Has Passed Away Aged 57
I'm so glad you've provided use with this very important news. Still no top 50 Damian posts of 2024, can we expect this tomorrow?
Re: Game Of The Year: UFO 50 Is The Gift That Keeps On Giving
How about a top 50 Damien McFerran posts of 2024. That would make my xmas.
Re: Feature: MiSTer Pi Is Our Pick For The Best Retro Hardware Of 2024
Wow. What a fantastically great pick. Everyone should own one.
Re: Sega Has Been "Losing Confidence" But Its New Boss Wants To "Make It Really Shiny Again"
Damien, amazing article. Where can we all submit you as Gaming Journalist of the year, no the decade.
Re: Infamous Trademark Troll Tim Langdell Is Back, And He Wants You To Buy His Dusty Old ZX Spectrum Book
Damien, speaking truth to power as always. You are such an inspiration.
Re: Sega's Western CEO Isn't Interested In Saturn And Dreamcast Mini Consoles
@no_donatello Fool me thrice.
Re: Sega's Western CEO Isn't Interested In Saturn And Dreamcast Mini Consoles
Wow, what a fantastic article, so insightful, such in-depth analysis of the corporate mandate of Sega management. You've hit it out of the park again Damien.
Re: "The Wildest Interview I Have Ever Conducted" - The SuperSega Saga Just Keeps Getting Better
What a great article, time extension knocking it out of the park again.
Re: Here's A Better Look At The Promising "All-In-One" MiSTer FPGA Console, Multisystem 2
Wow, what a great idea. I am so looking forwards to this.
Re: The Making Of: Powermonger, Bullfrog's Forgotten RTS Follow-Up To Populous
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Re: There's Still Time To Secure This Trio Of ZX Spectrum "3D Combat Classics"
iconic
/ʌɪˈkɒnɪk/
adjective
1.
relating to or of the nature of an icon; regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration.
"she became an iconic figure for directors around the world"
Re: Anbernic's New GBA Clone Plays PSP, Dreamcast And More
What exactly is this a clone of?
Re: The Making Of: Powermonger, Bullfrog's Forgotten RTS Follow-Up To Populous
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Re: Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion Voice Actor Neil Newbon Talks ZX Spectrum, Julian Gollop And Modern Gamers Having It Easy
"They all had names. They became like real little dudes. As opposed to Manic Miner or Chuckie Egg or whatever." - What you mean like Miner Willy and Hen-House Harry?
Damien, your standards are showing.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion Voice Actor Neil Newbon Talks ZX Spectrum, Julian Gollop And Modern Gamers Having It Easy
45 minutes to load a tape, hmm.
Re: True "All-In-One" MiSTer FPGA Multisystem 2 Console Is Coming In 2025
@845H If you think this will be £299 or less I have a museum for you to purchase.