WRITING

Below you can find a list of articles I've written for various websites. The links will take to directly to the articles on the site.

Medium is an on-line publishing platform that promotes social journalism. It's a place where amateur and professional writers alike can go to share their work. I decided to join the platform after the closure of Gemr. I post newly written articles, as well as re-worked versions of older articles from Gemr and RetroCollect. You can find my main profile HERE.

• There are Pornstar Action Figures. Why Not Collect Them All?

• Rule 34 Before the Internet: The Story of the Tijuana Bible

• How One Man Nearly Killed the Comic Book Industry.

• Remembering Sega World Sydney.

• This Month I Earnt $6.76 on Medium! Here’s How!

• The Beautiful Horror of Dante's Inferno

• The Phantom: A Hero Who Influenced the World

• Don't Come the Raw Prawn With Me, Google!

• After 35 Years I’ve Accepted that I’m a Bit Weird

• The Phantom: Why Has America Ignored This Proto-Superhero?

• My Favourite Reads, Watches & Plays of 2020

• So, What If Jodie Whittaker Leaves Doctor Who?

• The Toy That Made Me

• Five Fan Projects Keeping Awesome Games Alive

• About Me — Joe Douglas

• Why Does Google Kill Everything?

• How No Man’s Sky Helped Me Deal With Depression

• The Issue With Variants

• A Year Without Amazon

• Horror in the Palm of Your Hand!: The History of Mighty Max

• The Story of The Great Comic Book Crash

• The Comics Code Authority: How One Man Nearly Killed Comic Books

• Imposter Syndrome on Medium

Sadly, Gemr closed down on the 27th of January, 2020 after being unable to secure funding to keep the site going. However, I was able to make copies of all my articles before that time. Below is a list of the articles I wrote for the site, any that do not currently link out are yet to be made into readable versions. Please not that any articles I've re-purposed for Medium (see above) will link to that version.

• Dreamcast: The Console That Almost Saved Sega (Unpublished)

• How Collectable Are Consoles?

• Is the Future of Collecting Digital?

• 5 Great Video Game Easter Eggs

• The Great Comic Book Crash

• We Are Venom: Hosts of the Symbiote

• The Comics Code Authority: How One Man Nearly Killed Comic Books

• How to Start a Collection

• Display Hacks for Collectors

• The Many Skulls of Ghost Rider

• Should You Buy Comics in Single Issues or Wait for the Trade?

• The Many Guises of Doctor Strange

• The History of Magic: The Gathering

• 5 Characters We Want to See In Spider-Verse 2

• Five (More) Controversial Comics

• Five Comic Book Events You Have To Read!

• How To Grade and Value Your Collectables

• Myst & Doom: 25 Years of Influence

• Sonic And the Coming of the Anthropomorphic Mascots

• 5 Properties The Deserve The Funko Treatment

• The History of The Phantom

• The History of Mighty Max Toys

RetroCollect went down earlier this year (2020). It shows no signs of coming back on-line so I am in the process of re-building the articles in Google Drive so that they can be viewed once more. Only those articles linked (underlined) can currently be read.

• ROMs For Unreleased Phantom and Mandrake GBA Games Found

• Summer of Sonic 2016 Recap

• Remembering Sega World, Sydney (this link to the re-purposed version on Medium)

• realMyst: Masterpiece Edition Links Onto Steam and iOS

• Modern Review: Broken Sword 5, Part One (PC)

• Modern Review: Sonic: Lost World (3DS)

• WayForward’s Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Hits Kickstarter

• Modern Review: Tomb Raider (PC)

• Review: Wreck It Ralph

• Ghostbusters: A Video Game History – Part Three

• Ghostbusters: A Video Game History – Part 2.5

• Ghostbusters: A Video Game History – Part Two

• Ghostbusters: A Video Game History – Part One

• Retro Review: Alisia Dragoon (Sega Mega Drive)

• Modern Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 4, Episode 1 (PC)

• Retro Review – Condemned: Criminal Origins (PC)

• Modern Review: Prince of Persia 2008 (PC)

• To Be This Good Takes Archie: History of Archie Comics’ Sonic Series

• Sonic The Hedgehog 20th Anniversary PC Bundle Pack

• Modern Review: Thor: God Of Thunder (DS)

• Retro Review: Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine

• Deus Ex – Still the Best Game Ever?

• Getting to Know Lara Croft

• Retro Review: Master of Darkness

• Top Five Comic Book Retro Games

I began ChronicleChamber in early 2006 after seeing a need for a proper, news-based The Phantom website. Between 2006 and 2017 I created the world's first The Phantom-exclusive podcast, X-Band, as well as the Phantom Preservation Project which aims to archive and preserve The Phantom media for prosperity.

In 2017 I handed over the site to my colleagues who had helped run it. Since then I have made "guest appearances" on the podcast and as a writer.

• Behind the Scenes of the Phantom 2040 Video Game, Pt. 2 (2020)

• Behind the Scenes of the Phantom 2040 Video Game, Pt. 1 (2020)

• EXCLUSIVE - The Lost Phantom & Mandrake Video Games Discovered

• Is The Phantom Racist?

• Vale, Paul Ryan

• Interview: Jeff Parker

• Wear It Purple – An Interview With Artist Lindsay Walker

• Collector Interview - Jermayn Parker

• Farewell to Moonstone

• An Interview with Scott Beatty

• Phantom For All

• Review: Jonson's Official Phantom Price Guide, 3rd Edition

• An Interview with Silvestre Szilagyi

• An Interview with Mike Bullock

• The Ghost and the Machine

• Speaking to Jim Shepherd

This is a list of articles I'd written for my old blog, Collectorized.

• Uru: Ages Beyond Myst (GameTripper)

• My Top 50 Video Games

• Thoughts on River City Girls

• Dragon Age: Art Imitating Life

• The Beautiful Horror of Dante's Inferno

• Finally, After 20 Years, I've Completed Shenmue

• Mighty Max Follow Up Article

• Liv Tyler: A Celebrity Crush Story

• A Fanboy’s Thoughts on Sonic Forces

• Boxes Of Hording

• Moving From Single Issue Comics To Collected Editions

• Why I Stopped Collecting Retro Games