How to boot straight into PICO-8 on a Raspberry Pi
A single-purpose fantasy console, built from a headless Pi and about 30 minutes of patience. Power on, get PICO-8. No RetroPie, no desktop, no menu.
Side Quests 2 of 2
Films, video games, pop culture, and whatever else pulled focus this month.
Adventures in post-war Europe: The Third Man & Roman Holiday
Two directors take the same raw material, a city and its people pulling themselves back together, and hand the audience two completely different truths.
Installing RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi 5 using the command line
RetroPie used to ship a ready-to-flash image, but the Raspberry Pi 5 doesn't have one at the moment. Let's take the manual route.
Great artists steal: Yojimbo & A Fistful of Dollars
Two films telling the same story through different genres, actors, languages, even music. Did one steal from the other? Does it even matter?
Double bill of dread: Wages of Fear & Diabolique
Two thrillers directed by Clouzot, two opposite theories of dread: in one the threat is a bad road, in the other it's the person across the breakfast table.