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Five Years Ago, Anthem Was A Warning
Hey, remember Anthem? Remember that? Yeah.
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38 Years Ago, Nintendo Changed Pop Culture Forever
At the start of the 1980s, video games were mostly relegated to coin-gobbling arcade machines, but their surging popularity prompted a Time Magazine cover story in January 1982 with a cringeworthy warning: “GRONK! FLASH! ZAP! Video Games are Blitzing the World!” If this sounds like Big Boomer Energy, that’s because Baby Boomers were between 20…
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Oldest Known Miyamoto Interview Reveals Nintendo Staff Loved…Donkey Kong Jr. Maths
A newly translated 1986 interview between Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto and Namco’s Masanobu Endo reveals some neat details about the games the two designers were playing at the time, what music Miyamoto was into, and his hopes for Mario’s future.
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The 5 Greatest Japanese Racing Games of All Time (That Aren’t Gran Turismo)
It is impossible to overstate the significance the Gran Turismo franchise has had on the American auto enthusiast scene. It’s an established institution today, but in the mid-to-late ‘90s, Gran Turismo was a phenomenon, introducing millions of U.S. gamers to cars, tracks, and even driving styles they’d never seen before.