Relax after a holiday feast by joining us for a nostalgic tour of old Japanese game mags that blurred the lines between analogue and digital

Pasokon Retro is our look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist '80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP.

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The exhausting whirl of festive treats, family visits, and the lie I keep telling myself about having just one more chocolate tends to put me in a slothful fog over the holiday season, the thought of sitting down for some serious gaming all but impossible. Thankfully decades-old Japanese computer games have a solution for this self-inflicted fugue...