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Nintendo’s Awkward 1990s, Remembered On Resurrected VHS
4NeoGAF user jjgames has done the history of video games — or at least our ability to easily access some awkwardly amusing parts of it — a great favour. He’s bought six old VHS tapes from the ’90s, each containing a Nintendo marketing or training video.
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A Gentleman’s Reading Collection Should Always Begin With Duke Nukem
That up there isn’t some joke image someone tossed up on Tumblr. It’s a real photo, taken from the Library of Congress’ video game collection, and it features vintage strategy guides, rebound and preserved for the ages.
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Capturing The Coolness Of California Arcades In The Early 80s
Between 1981 and 1982, renowned photographer Ira Nowinski hiked all over the Bay Area, taking hundreds of photos of arcades. In all, he snapped around 700 images, and in awesome news for retro gaming fans many of them are now available for viewing, courtesy of their acquisition by Stanford University’s library (and Edge).
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Pokemon Inspired The US Army To Think About Building An Epilepsy Gun
By now, you should all be aware of the 1997 incident in Japan where a number of children were hospitalised after watching an episode of Pokémon. It was weird, and more than a little dangerous.