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: There was a Good Super Mario Bros. Movie. Let's Watch it!

#mario When someone talks about the Super Mario Bros. movie, you'd be forgiven for assuming they're talking about the 1993 live-action flick starring Bob Hoskins. But there are actually two Super Mario Bros...

mariowiki.com posted by Kotaku Apr 20 2012 03:00 GMT

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: Yes, This is Andy Warhol Painting Deborah Harry on an Amiga

#amiga These days, we remember Commodore's Amiga system for its games. Classics like Cannon Fodder. In 1985, though, the company had grander plans. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 19 2012 03:30 GMT

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: Um, Sega Once Made a Sonic Fighting Game

#sonic As promised, today we'll be looking at Sonic the Fighters. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 19 2012 03:00 GMT

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: Every Nintendo 64 Game, in One Giant Video

#n64 There were 296 games released for the Nintendo 64 in North America. Which is hardly any, I know. But it'll still seem like a lot when you sit down and watch this movie which collects footage from ever...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 18 2012 03:30 GMT

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: The Giant Alien Dick Machines of Space Invaders Pinball

#spaceinvaders In 1980, Bally released a pinball machine called Space Invaders. It was about as shameless a rip-off as you could hope for, as despite the opportunity to lift iconic imagery from Taito's arca...

flyers.arcade-museum.com posted by Kotaku Apr 18 2012 03:00 GMT

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: Road Blaster, You Have Stolen My Heart

#roadblaster It's not often I come across a game I've never even heard of putting this feature together, but that happened yesterday with Road Prosecutor. Which means, yes, I'd never heard of its arcade or...

gamesniped.com posted by Kotaku Apr 17 2012 03:30 GMT

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: Mr. Awesome, the Greatest Video Game Player Who Ever Lived

#mrawesome If you hear the words "professional video game player", you probably picture somebody who is, well, the exact opposite of awesome. As fair or unfair as that is (sorry professional video game play...

mosten-pinball.blogspot.com.au posted by Kotaku Apr 17 2012 03:00 GMT

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: Maybe I Liked GoldenEye For Weird Reasons

#totalrecall Earlier this week, we published an intelligent takedown of the beloved Nintendo 64 James Bond first-person shooter GoldenEye. Maybe, our guest writer wrote, this game was a little bit flawed....

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 14 2012 04:00 GMT

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: There was Once a U.S. National Video Game Team, and This Guy Was Its Captain

#arcade A leader of a national team of athletes could reasonably expect to make a few endorsements or appearances, and in his day, Donn Nauert had his. Whether supplying a pro's advice on Gradius or judgi...

patrickscottpatterson.com posted by Kotaku Apr 14 2012 03:30 GMT

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: When "Sexy" Meant "Fully-Clothed With Expensive Race Cars"

#sports I remember when I was 8, and my important bits still didn't quite know what they were doing, I thought this was the single greatest image on the planet. A sexy European lady and a McLaren F1 car? It...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 13 2012 03:30 GMT

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: The Sad Story of a Japanese Gaming Legend who Pretends War Crimes Never Happened

#japan Here at Total Recall, we deal in history. Partly because I love my video games, but also because as a graduate in the field I love my history as well. So it saddens me deeply when I see people involv...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 13 2012 03:00 GMT

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: The Greatness of Terrible Voice Acting

#thehorror The AV Club's newly-relaunched games section, the Gameological Society, explores one of the greatest single examples of voice-over work in the history of the industry: Last Stand, a shooter for ...

gameological.com posted by Kotaku Apr 12 2012 03:30 GMT

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: A Controversial Arcade Classic Gets its Own Documentary

#dragonslair Arcade classic Dragon's Lair has its share of critics, but because it was so beautiful for the time, it's also got its share of fans. Enough for there to be a market for a very slick documenta...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 12 2012 03:00 GMT

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: Nintendo's Terrifying Power Glove Indoctrination Video

#nintendo Get a cup of tea, a biscuit or two and settle in for ten minutes worth of Nintendo Power Glove propaganda, courtesy of the official VHS cassette guide to the peripheral. More »

albotas.com posted by Kotaku Apr 11 2012 03:30 GMT

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: That Time Sega Made a Ridiculous Fighting Game. With a Car in it.

#sega Due to the overwhelming popularity of its Smash Bros. series, a lot of people give Nintendo credit for pioneering the idea of a fighting game bringing together a company's mascots in the name of face-...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 11 2012 03:00 GMT

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: In 1974, Arthur C. Clarke Predicted the Internet

#theinternet Not just as a vague concept, either. The famed science fiction author absolutely nails it, from the bank statements to the hardware to the social changes to the possibilities for communication...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 10 2012 03:30 GMT

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: RIP, the Man who Helped Get me Into Video Games

#rip When I was four years old, my father took me out to a local electronics store and said we were buying a computer. OK, I thought, not really knowing why that was such a big deal. Twenty-seven years late...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 10 2012 03:00 GMT

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: Unboxing the Motherload of Old PC Games

#pc If you think unboxing new games is fun, wait until you see how awesome it is when a guy finds a box of old PC games and spends seven minutes taking them out of a single, larger cardboard box More »...

retroist.com posted by Kotaku Apr 06 2012 03:30 GMT

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: Atari's Founder Also Made Kick-Ass Robots

#robots Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari and also the man behind Chuck E. Cheese's, won't just be remembered for those two towering achievements. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 06 2012 03:00 GMT

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: Thirty Years in a Loft and This Console Still Looks Gorgeous

#atari It might be dusty, and the games might be more than a little dog-eared, but according to the photographer it all still works, despite having sat in a loft for over thirty years. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 05 2012 03:30 GMT

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: Did You Know Pinball Was Once Declared Illegal?

#pinball Pinball. The great American mechanical pastime. It's about as innocent as gaming gets, especially compared to the blood, drugs and sex you find in video games. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 05 2012 03:00 GMT

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: Today is "Atari National PAC-MAN Day". No, Seriously, it is.

#atari Thirty Years ago today, Atari had the balls to proclaim an entire day, hoping to lift its iconic Pac-Man character alongside the likes of other people who have their own day. Like, you know, Martin L...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 04 2012 03:30 GMT

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: Did You Know GameStop is Named After a Book Store?

#gamestop It's one of those things you probably never bothered to think about. "GameStop" sounds like something it took three seconds to come up with. But there's surprisingly a bit more of a story behind t...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 04 2012 03:00 GMT

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: Gotta Catch 'Em All!

#nintendo64 Not the Pokémons. There's too many of them, and just when you think you've got them all, Nintendo goes and creates more. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 03 2012 03:30 GMT

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: Nothing Says Steroids, or Awesome Box Art, Like Two Crude Dudes

#sega Two Crude Dudes is a terrible game. Just terrible. I remember trying to play it as a kid, on a number of occasions, and every time I picked up a controller I'd be floored by how poor it was. More �...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Apr 03 2012 03:00 GMT

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: Fact-Checking Alan Wake's Writer Cred

#alanwake I've only played a bit of Remedy's newest downloadable Alan Wake game—though Evan Narcisse liked it a lot, and I like what I've played, too. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 31 2012 04:00 GMT

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: Good God, Mortal Kombat on Game Gear Had Some Terrible Audio

#mortalkombat I have some fond memories of my Game Gear. I loved that giant hunk of sexy black plastic so much that I forgave its terrible battery life and the other aspects that led to its financial failu...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 31 2012 03:30 GMT

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: Clue's Multiple Endings Confused Everyone Way Before Mass Effect 3

#clue I love the movie Clue. I've seen it over a dozen times. I can quote whole sections verbatim, and any time I feel annoyed by someone, I suffer from flames on the side of my face and heaving breaths. Th...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 31 2012 03:00 GMT

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: The Ugly Duckling of the Prince of Persia Series

#princeofpersia It's funny, when people think of Prince of Persia games, they think of either the first one, or the ones including and following 2003's Sands of Time. It's as though there was a game in ther...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 30 2012 03:30 GMT

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: The History of Early Computer Games. In Iraq.

#iraq There's a really interesting piece up on HG101 in which Iraqi gamer Salwan Asaad, now living in Egypt, recounts his experiences growing up in the 1980s with the region's fledgling scene. More » ...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 29 2012 03:30 GMT

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