Tag: iteration
TikTok’s ‘corecore’ is the latest iteration of absurdist meme art
TikTok goes a little overboard when it comes to categorizing every last aesthetic into its own microtrend. You notice it when Spotify Wrapped calls your music taste goblincore, or when you strangely end up at a charity gala in San Francisco and a tech exec asks you if he should be concerned that his teen […]
TikTok’s ‘corecore’ is the latest iteration of absurdist meme art by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
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The Dreamcast lives on with a new ‘next-gen’ iteration of its iconic VMU memory card
Sega may have long since left console manufacturing behind, but the Dreamcast remains one of the longest-lived games consoles going, with fans ever so occasionally putting out new Dreamcast releases. The system has a cult following – the Dreamcast never dies.
The latest new development in Dreamcast technology is now available to be backed on crowd-funding site Indiegogo – and it’s a curious upgrade to one of the system’s most unique features – its VMU memory cards.
For those of you who aren’t rapidly hurtling towards their forties or indeed already there, the VMU (Visual Memory Unit) was a fascinating take on the memory cards of the time, making them interactive and fun rather than simply a slab of plastic that held your save data. Original VMUs contained a little LCD screen that could display information from the game you’re currently playing – providing a very rudimentary two-screen experience years before the Nintendo DS would do the same with far more utility.