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#movies Seeing video games in a movie these days, or even a movie based on a video game, is nothing out of the ordinary. It's expected. But during the 1970s, it was something to be marvelled at. More »

#nintendo Before Nintendo made home console titles and hardware, the company made, among other things, arcade games. More »

#ufokamenyakisoban UFO Kamen Yakisoban was a 1994 Super NES game that was basically one giant commercial for instant noodles. More »

#jamescameron The eyes of the world were on Hollywood director James Cameron this week as he became the first man in decades to reach the deepest point of the ocean floor, and the first man to ever achieve the feat by himself. More »

#cannonfodder 3D artist Toni Bratincevic goes back to the early 1990s and absolutely nails it. Or, he nails it if you were playing Amiga or PC games at the time, anyway. More »

#nintendo Part of me wishes they still made video game commercials like this. Less sanitised cinematics, more *CRAG* YOU COMPETING COMPANY. It's childish and brash, sure, but also a lot more fun. More »

#starwars If you've never seen 1979's Starcrash, boy are you missing out. It's basically a collection of awful special effects, Flash Gordon-style pulp science fiction and a lot of attractive women in small bikinis and thigh-high boots. Of all the bad Star Wars clones that emerged in the wake of George Lucas' classic, this was one of the best, and also one of the worst. More »

#bully I've been thinking a lot about why it is that I love both 2008's Bully and 2010's Persona 3 Portable, which I've recently started playing on my Vita. Both games are set in high schools, and while I'm on the record as wanting more High School games, that's only part of the reason I like them as much as I do. More »

#heavyrain This isn't the newest video in the world, but hey! This is Total Recall! We play older stuff here. (Note to those who haven't played Heavy Rain: This video spoils the living crap out of the game and the ending.) More »

#masseffect We know that some really cool music from the first Mass Effect is hidden in the background of Mass Effect 3. More »

#backgroundstory Hope you enjoy the view, though, because this is from Ultima Underworld II, where you spend most of your time slogging through dungeons, tombs and prisons. More »

#books All of them? All of the video games? Then buy this book. It'll tell you how! More »

#barbarian You can keep Street Fighter, Tekken, King of Fighters and Dead or Alive. My favourite fighting game pre-dates every single one of them, starred large men in furry underpants, and rather than lasting minutes could, if you knew your moves, be over in seconds. More »

#pc If you played PC adventure games in the 1990s, you may have come across detective Tex Murphy, star of the absolutely badass Mean Streets and four more games that weren't anywhere near as cool. More »

#lanoire Part of the appeal of Rockstar's LA Noire was the fact it was set in a time period that video games normally avoid like the plague. The hats, the music, the black & white, it should be poison to a generation of gamers accustomed to wars, aliens, sports and fast cars. More »

#music Teaming up with French band Sna-Fu Grand Desordre Orchestre, artist Pierre Manry has made a clip for the group's song Dream O Rama that is one enormous tip of the hat to the video games of yesteryear. More »

#syndicate When people get all misty-eyed about the amazing, original Syndicate from 1993, they often overlook something. The game's ending. Or, to be more accurate, its complete lack of one. More »

#mcdonalds It's time to put a smile on your face and a dangerously high level of cholesterol in your arteries! It's time to hunt for treasure and wield ancient magical powers! It's your chance to play as the world's most famous clown! No, not Charlie Sheen - it's time to take on the role of burger-shifter and face-painted nightmare beacon Ronald McDonald in the 1993 Megadrive / Genesis golden-arches-em-up McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure. More »

#jadeempire But when it comes time to seal the romantic deal in a BioWare game, do things really need to be so awkward? Because damn, things have gotten weird. As Tom Bissell puts it in his Grantland critique of the game—"In fact, could we, as gamers, maybe politely band together to convince BioWare to can the sex scenes entirely, at least until the technology exists to make a non-hilarious one?" More »

#dukenukem We've written about Mapstalgia a couple times before. On the tumblr, people submit maps of classic games that they've drawn from memory. This map of the Red Light District from Duke Nukem 3D, strains the whole "from memory" aspect of things, but it's still impressive. (You can view the full version by expanding the image above or clicking here). This guy should make maps for FAQs! More »

#opinion Not very long after adventure game legend Tim Schafer proposed resurrecting a long-dormant genre, and made a ton of money for doing it, another long-dormant kind of game - this time an 80's RPG - did something similar. More »

#nintendo It's The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, re-enacted by 1980s video game light guns. I'll leave you to decide which is which. More »

#windows An oldie, to be sure, even by this feature's standards, but still a fun watch. Especially when you notice it was put together by GT Interactive, the company which would later try to pass itself off as Atari. More »

#backgroundstory You don't really see America's iconic Mount Rushmore in many video games. You do see it in the original Street Fighter, though, as the background for the stage in which you fight a dude called Mike. More »

#lesmiserables Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables is a literary giant. You're probably also familiar with its long-running theatrical adaptation, which has been treading the boards for over thirty years now. More »

#totalrecall Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller was a PC adventure game released in 1994. It's OK if you've never heard of it, or can't remember it. More »

#dayofthetentacle Two of America's founding fathers, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, will be starring in the upcoming Assassin's Creed III. It's not, you know, their first time in a video game. More »

#snacktaku Collector Jason Liebig has uploaded six of the greatest Flickr images you're likely to ever see: cereal box scans that include giant masks for some of the main characters from Star Wars. More »

#nintendo Sitting down with a bunch of old games in the Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon and Metroid franchises, Belgian scientists have proven beyond all doubt that those games are way hard. More »

#totalrecall Happy Friday everyone! Unfortunately for Total Recall fans, Kirk is out and about at the Game Developers Conference. But Luke will be providing you with old school gaming goodness as soon as Monday. Sit tight! More »