Kwame Asante

8+ years retro gaming journalism and preservation advocacy, maintains original hardware reference library spanning 25+ platforms

Kwame Asante covers retro gaming not through nostalgia-tinted glasses but through the lens of a preservationist who believes video game history deserves the same archival rigour as film or literature. He writes about emulation accuracy, re-release quality, the ethics of ROM distribution, and the hardware modding scene that keeps aging consoles alive decades past their intended lifespan. Kwame has personally recapped more CRTs than he can count and maintains a reference library of original hardware that his partner has learned to tolerate. He evaluates modern retro collections and mini-consoles on input lag, aspect-ratio correctness, and whether the included scanline filters are actually good — because most of them are not. He firmly believes that every delisted digital-only game represents a failure of industry stewardship.