If you grew up playing GameBoy or Atari Lynx, spent hours at your local arcade watching Street Fighter II matches, or enjoy taking that old Sega CD or Turbografx-16 out of the closet every now and then, then you might want to bookmark the site and stay a while. BlameTheControlPad.com started out as a means to keep myself busy while living in a U.S. state where there isn't much to do, put the few web design basics I had learned in the past to the test, and improve my English by writing about my favorite hobby (because, you see, my native language is Spanish). I was inspired by another retro gaming site, HardcoreGaming101.net, which helped me realize I enjoyed old games more than current-gen ones. And although the initial plan was to have contributing writers as well as a community forum, somewhere along the way I realized I am too big of a control freak to share this with anybody else. The result is a sort of personal retro-gaming diary. A collection of articles about less known, often overlooked console and arcade videogames of the past that at the very least deserve a second look. Add some history and a whole bunch of trivia and you'll have a good idea of what this site is about.

You won't find any scores or rankings, though. There's a lot of that around already and it's really not what I aim for. Hopefully every game featured here, regardless of it being good or bad, will have something interesting worth your reading time. And if you happen to learn something new about its developers or the history behind it, even better!

Lastly, and because this is a one man effort, I regret to inform you that updates aren't as frequent as other sites. I do all the screenshot-taking, text-editing, article-proofreading, code maintenance, etc; let alone I have a family and job to tend to. So currently updates are available every two months or less.

Fling your hate mail, ideas, suggestions, indecent proposals, broken links and found typos this way: xxxshellshockxxx@yahoo.com
I aim for completion and accuracy to the point of obsession, but hey, I'm human and sometimes I fall victim of Wikipedia pseudo facts. So if you happen to find what you think is an error, write me a line or two about it, will you? Feedback is always appreciated.