Further reading

If you're the type of person who still reads words on the internet, I'd like to recommend some newsletters, podcasts, and other publications that I personally enjoy reading, in no particular order.

Most of these are directly related to emulation or retro gaming more generally, so I'm sure you'll find at least one to help fill your inbox with joy a few times a week.

All of these are independent publications, so please consider supporting them if you have the means!

Newsletters, etc.

Read Only Memo
Videogame emulation news and exclusive interviews, from the aesthetics of razor sharp scanlines to the wild technical challenges of making yesterday’s games run on tomorrow’s hardware.

Fantastic bi-weekly emulation newsletter with a special focus on old Japanese games. Or maybe you could call it an obsession.

Design Room
Video game oral histories

Design Room is best known for 'Oral Histories' of games, and it's a continuation of the excellent Polygon series from Matt Leone and co. They don't publish often, but when they do,

Post Games | Chris Plante | Substack
A weekly podcast about how and why we love video games. Click to read Post Games, by Chris Plante, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

This newsletter/podcast covers all sorts of gaming topics (but not typically emulation), and I've been hooked since it launched in 2025.

The Video Game Library’s Substack | Substack
Your independent source for ALL the latest news, reviews, and interviews in the world of Video Game Literature 📚. Click to read The Video Game Library’s Substack, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

The Video Game Library is an incredible project, and this is a weekly newsletter covering the latest stuff added to the collection.

Rings of Saturn | Bo | Substack
In-depth writeups of my explorations in retro game reverse engineering, with a focus on games from the 32-bit era. Click to read Rings of Saturn, by Bo, a Substack publication.

An interesting newsletter for technical folks, Rings of Saturn reverse engineers retro games, focusing on finding new cheat codes. Often, codes are discovered first here.

The Bryant Review
Technology for Human Beings. Here, we tell stories and focus on good things. Free software, the Fediverse, and other things that don’t suck.

The Bryant Review covers a variety of FOSS topics, but interviews with emulation devs are often published here, and it's always worth a read.