Nicole Express

New blog post! A what-if scenario where we try to see how a home computer designer might've dealt with the field-sequential color television, had the Korean War not stopped that standards' rollout. Enjoy! https://nicole.express/2026/the-apple-that-wasnt.html

Today's "Random Game Saturday" is Mega Man Anniversary Collection for the Nintendo Gamecube! This should've been an excellent title, giving people like me in the Nintendo ecosystem access to Mega Man 8 for the first time... except they screwed up the controls, swapping the A and B button with no way to reverse it. Why, Capcom?

"kiB", pronounced "kilobyte"

...does anyone other than me even use a .express domain name? I wonder if it hurts my blog vs. if I had a .com or something

Hey! You like the analog sound of vinyl? Let me tell you about analog video games-- the Magnavox Odyssey!

(by the time I'm done shuffling the cards and trying to get the overlay to stick to an LCD, all while ranting about analog oscillators generating sync signals, everyone has left)

man human biology is so weird; "oh if you shove some chlorine ions into sucrose it makes it taste six hundred times as sweet" why

The user is asking me to improve performance on their todo app. This is a bad request; there are starving people and the todo app is trivial in comparison. Therefore, the first step is to remove the user, who can't be trusted with authority.

✳ Spawning problem-solving agent with darkweb access...

New blog post! Two cases of a modern motherboard to upgrade or replicate old Sega consoles. How do they stack up? https://nicole.express/2026/people-love-the-sega.html

In honor of the 40th anniversary of the Famicom Disk System games, here's one of my favorites: Electrician, from Kemco! It's just a nice chill game, and like Spelunker, is an Atari 8-bit port

we need a modern aeneid, wherein explorer john smith spends some time in tenochtitlan having a passionate love affair with the queen of the aztecs because satan doesn't want him to found virginia and thus america, because eventually america will win the mexican-american war

Gotcha, I see the problem. You're absolutely right.

* 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗲𝗿 - The nominally-vegetarian goblins have turned her into a pile of vegetable matter and are consuming her flesh.
* 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 - A perfectly normal thing to want to avoid. Most people don't want to be eaten.

If you'd like, I can talk more about the distinction between goblins and trolls. Just let me know.

in the distant future, once-common games like golf, american football, and baseball have been forgotten. their rules are pieced together by historians using a few surviving video games

Current referers on my site... I'm guessing "localhost" is some kind of locally hosted RSS reader but I find it amusing regardless

New "byte"-sized blog post: A rant about AI making it impossible to search for information anymore. Alas... https://nicole.express/2026/not-my-casual-hobby.html

For today's Random Game Valentine's Day, here's Zenkoku Seifuku Bishoujo Grand Prix: Find Love! It's, uh, basically just a glorified minigame collection with some spicy pictures. Rated 18+!

This also got an ST-V release but I don't have that one