2017 – 2024retired
Lego Life
“Built brick by brick, and by kids: a corner of the internet that played nice.”
“Every old game had a home here; now the house lights are off but the cartridges remember.”
The Virtual Console was Nintendo's downloadable line of classic games for the Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U, running beloved titles from past consoles in their original form through software emulation. Its library spanned the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, and Nintendo DS, and it was famously generous to rivals too, hosting Sega's Master System, Genesis and Game Gear, NEC's TurboGr
By 2023, the Virtual Console was discontinued, its storefronts — the Wii Shop Channel and Nintendo eShop — having been the way in for a generation of players rediscovering their past. The 3DS carried a smaller but still cherished library of NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, and Game Gear titles. It went out not murdered but retired, leaving behind the memory of a place where gaming history was ju
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“Built brick by brick, and by kids: a corner of the internet that played nice.”
“Nine LEDs, 5.7 inches of OLED, and a million living rooms turned into rabbit holes”
“It burned our memories onto discs that outlived the software that made them.”