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Sprawl on HyperCard

At this point, I've read and owned William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy in multiple form factors, but none seem more time-appropriate than its release as HyperCard stacks for Macintosh. It may be the least convenient way to read those books though.

It works well on InfiniteMac's System 7.5 virtual machine: You can load it in the VM using the "Macintosh Garden" tab at the bottom, and the compressed archive will show up in the path "The Outside World:Downloads".

Stereoscopic Doom on the Nintendo 3DS

Sure, DOOM has been ported to countless platforms, but its port to the Nintendo 3DS offers a unique experience unavailable elsewhere: Playing DOOM in glass-free stereoscopic 3D.

Hacking the 3DS is not too difficult if you follow this guide, and then you can install PrBoom-Plus-3DS. Performance is reasonable on the 3DS that I own, though I've heard it is better on the "new 3DS".

The Beatles Adventures in Pepperland

The international version of Super Mario Bros. 2 always felt oddly out of place in the Mario games, mostly due to its origins from the game Doki Doki Panic. But what if Doki Doki Panic, instead of being "reskinned" as a Mario game, had been transformed into an adaptation of the Yellow Submarine movie?

The SMB2 Rom Hack Adventures in Pepperland by Nesdraug and Shauing works incredibly well thematically. It delightfully adapts the Yellow Submarine worlds, characters and music into their NES equivalent. You can watch its announcement trailer or a full playthrough of the game if you don't want to go to the trouble of setting up the ROM patch and emulation yourself. You can find more information about it on ROMHacking.net.

Quake 64 and Quake II on Nintendo 64

I recently realized that the only versions of Quake and Quake II that I played was for the Nintendo 64 which were heavily modified from their original PC versions. Both Quake were recently re-released on modern consoles and PC in their original PC versions. It was nice to see then that both re-releases also came bundled with their Nintendo 64 ports, named "Quake 64" for Quake and as "Quake II 64" for Quake II.

Published on April 26, 2026 at 13:30 EDT

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