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That Time When Mario And ‘Evil Brother’ Luigi Starred In A Racing Game
Recent Nintendo events got us looking back at some old news clippings about the house of Mario and we found some we just have to share. Here’s one of the more interesting ones from the Daily Yomiuri, from November 1992. As you’ll see, we can’t vouch for veracity of all of it….
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The Inventor Of The AK-47 Has Died
Russian designer Mikhail Kalashnikov, creator of perhaps the world’s most famous firearm, has passed at the age of 94. He leaves behind a somewhat complicated legacy.
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1993 SimCity Documentary Is 20 Minutes Of Madness
In 1993, Britain’s Channel 4 ran a four-part documentary series on video games. The third episode was about SimCity, and 20 years on it stands as a monument to all that was amazing about both the early ’90s and antique PC gaming.
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The First Time Diablo Came To Consoles
Diablo III comes to consoles today, and I’m just as giddy as I was back in March 1998, picking up my copy of Diablo for the original PlayStation — and the additional memory card needed to save the game.




