i miss

  • I Miss Making CD Mixtapes and Discovering Music

    I Miss Making CD Mixtapes and Discovering Music

    I can’t even remember the last time I actually held a CD mixtape, much less played one. But there’s a CD wallet kicking around in storage that’s filled with unassuming silver discs doodled on with short titles and dates, part 1s, part 2s, and “greatest hits.”


  • I Miss the Game Boy Advance SP

    I Miss the Game Boy Advance SP

    In the pantheon of Nintendo consoles, I’ll readily admit the Game Boy Advance SP wasn’t the most exciting. It didn’t have dual screens and a stylus like the DS. It wasn’t absurdly tiny like the Micro, or introduce colour to the platform like the Game Boy Colour. It’s nowhere near as iconic as the OG…


  • I Miss My Japanese Flip Phone

    I Miss My Japanese Flip Phone

    In the fall of 2006, I was a wide-eyed nerd who had just landed in Tokyo for my freshman year of college. There’s a lot of bureaucratic nonsense you have to do when you decide to study abroad long-term, but at the top of my list was getting myself a keitai, or a Japanese mobile…


  • I Miss Simple Video Games That Didn’t Try Too Hard

    I Miss Simple Video Games That Didn’t Try Too Hard

    As someone obsessed with handheld gaming consoles, Nintendo’s Switch should have been the ultimate portable system for me. Instead, it actually made me nostalgic for Tiger Electronics’ LCD handhelds, arguably some of the first true portable video game systems. They were cheap, durable, simple and addictive, and 30 years later I find myself missing that…