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Old News ‘90: Nintendo Says NES Final Fantasy Is Geared To Adults
10:40AM Stephen Totilo | We’ve been writing about Final Fantasy this week, so how about we study how people used to write about this huge franchise. Like back in 1990, when the first game was coming to America. How did people/Nintendo explain it? More »
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Old News ‘96: BioWare Started For $US100,000
10:00AM Stephen Totilo | Before they were a part of Electronic Arts and bringing Dragon Age: Origins to the masses, BioWare was small and scrappy. And one of their founders walked around the office barefoot. More »
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Old News ‘01: Star Fox Adventures Should Keep Enthusiasts Happy
10:00AM Stephen Totilo | Inspired by Crecente’s posts about Epic Mickey I went digging for some older Disney stories. That brought me to E3 2001 stories, and that brought me to paragraphs about how awesome the GameCube debut line-up was at that show. More »
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Old News ‘01: Gran Turismo Made PlayStation The Market Leader
9:00AM Stephen Totilo | Racing gaming has always been a competitive genre. For a while, there was no contest. Fresh off this week’s latest news bit about Gran Turismo and with a copy of Forza 3 on my desk, I wanted to look back. More »
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Old News ‘96: Nintendo Also Increasing Storage Capacity, Hopefully
11:00AM Stephen Totilo | The PlayStation 3 may be expanding to 250GB in the United States next month, but a mere dozen years ago Nintendo was working on its own storage expansion. A whole 64MB more storage capacity was coming. With Zelda. More »
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Old News ‘82: Video Games Threaten The Model Industry
10:00AM Stephen Totilo | Before video games were a threat to society at large, they were a threat to the hobby of model-making. We’re not talking about the creation of attractive people who appear on magazines. No, this is the other kind of modelling. More »
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Old News ‘03: UMD Is The Way To Go
9:00AM Stephen Totilo | There’s no room for you in the PSPgo, UMD. But, yes, Sony used to say you were awesome. That started six years ago. More »
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Old News ‘00: Maybe Bungie Can Make Games In Four Months
9:00AM Stephen Totilo | The path to the episodic game was being paved at least a decade ago and someone wanted us to have the impression that Bungie might be on that road. More »
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Old News ‘97: Sony Forces Nintendo Game Prices Down
9:00AM Stephen Totilo | What does every gamer have to thank Sony for? Let’s jump back a dozen years to recall a happy moment when games got cheaper. More »
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