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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land When they cashed in on the video game crazy nearly 30 years ago, Jerry Buckner and Gary Garcia didn’t have to worry about licensing. Columbia/CBS records took care of that as Pac-Man Fever soared to No. 8 on the charts in 1982. Of course, the price they paid came later, in the form of CBS’s insistence that they think up songs about Mousetrap, Frogger and Centipede, and the attendant decline in dignity.
SB Nation had a good thing going, picking winners of the first round of the NBA Playoffs using awful games like Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball and IN THE ZONE ’98. But then the Miami-Philadelphia series was simulated using Streets of Rage. Streets of Rage is not a crappy video game.
In 1994, the WWF and an emotional Vince McMahon bid farewell to hall-of-fame wrestler Randy Savage. On March 29, the Macho Man ends a 16-year estrangement from the wrestling circuit with his appearance in THQ’s WWE All-Stars.
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On the occasion of the silver anniversary of Super Mario Bros, Nintendo has put out this video celebrating the most famous glitches of the original, ones that first spread not by internet or message boards, but high school lunch tables.
As promised, Jay Pavlina has delivered Ryu Hayabusa from the NES Ninja Gaiden as the seventh playable character in the flash sensation Super Mario Bros Crossover. Other character-specific abilities have been included in the game’s 1.1 update.
With no sequel, no reboot, no spinoffs – just one movie and one video game – The Goonies is a rarity, a phenomenon supported by two decades of nearly unexploited nostalgia. The film’s 25th anniversary of its release is today.
