video game history
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History Has Seen Some Weird-Arse Video Game Controllers
Here’s an interesting look through video game history from Redditor and Imgur user zadoc, who posts a picture of every control pad he has in his extensive collection.
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Infamous Atari Player Disqualified From World Record After 35 Years
In 1982, video game score-chaser Todd Rogers supposedly set a world record time of 5.51 seconds in the Atari 2600 racing game Dragster. Last year, speedrunners called that score into question. After a lengthy arbitration process, Rogers’ score was removed from Twin Galaxies, an organisation that tracks video game records and high scores.
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That Time Some Players Thought Mew Was Under A Truck In Pokémon
The original generation of Pokémon had 150 special monsters to find. One of the most elusive was the legendary psychic type Mewtwo. But if there was a Mewtwo, that left a question: where was the original Mew?