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Look How Awesome Old Video Games Were in Old Movies
#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 »...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 29 2012 03:00 GMT
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Nintendo's Shameless 1970's Advertising
#nintendo Before Nintendo made home console titles and hardware, the company made, among other things, arcade games. More »
flyers.arcade-museum.com posted by Kotaku Mar 28 2012 04:00 GMT
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Japan’s Most Famous Foreigner in Today's (Well, Yesterday's) Best Game Trailer
#ufokamenyakisoban UFO Kamen Yakisoban was a 1994 Super NES game that was basically one giant commercial for instant noodles. More »
vgjunk.tumblr.com posted by Kotaku Mar 28 2012 03:30 GMT
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James Cameron, Why Didn't You Shoot Anything?
#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 ...
gizmodo.com posted by Kotaku Mar 28 2012 03:00 GMT
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The Ghost of Cannon Fodders Past
#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 »
interstation3d.com posted by Kotaku Mar 27 2012 03:30 GMT
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Donkey Kong was NOT ON SEGA, OK?
#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 Â...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 27 2012 04:00 GMT
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The Star Warsploitation Film That Deserved a Crummy Atari Game
#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 smal...
retroist.com posted by Kotaku Mar 27 2012 03:00 GMT
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From Bully to Persona, I Love a Game With a Schedule
#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...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 24 2012 03:00 GMT
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Heavy Rain's Finale Was Never So Hilarious
#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...
heavy.com posted by Kotaku Mar 24 2012 03:30 GMT
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The Fantastic Mass Effect 2 Music That Didn't Make The Cut
#masseffect We know that some really cool music from the first Mass Effect is hidden in the background of Mass Effect 3. More »
music.biggiantcircles.com posted by Kotaku Mar 24 2012 04:00 GMT
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Stone Towers Stand Above Ultima's Clouds
#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 »
noirlac.tumblr.com posted by Kotaku Mar 22 2012 03:30 GMT
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Do you Want to Master the Video Games?
#books All of them? All of the video games? Then buy this book. It'll tell you how! More »
lux13.tumblr.com posted by Kotaku Mar 22 2012 04:00 GMT
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The Awesome Fighting Game That Let You Cut Other Player's Heads Off
#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 last...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 22 2012 03:00 GMT
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1990s Adventure Game Wash-Up Wants Reboot, Begging for Cash on the Internet
#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 ...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 21 2012 03:30 GMT
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Before LA Noire, There Was This 1996 Noir Adventure Game
#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 ...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 21 2012 03:00 GMT
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When French Musicians Make Love to the Video Games of the 1980s
#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 yesteryea...
sna-fu.com posted by Kotaku Mar 20 2012 04:00 GMT
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And You Thought Mass Effect 3's Ending Was Bad...
#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 » ...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 20 2012 03:30 GMT
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The Horror, the Glory of Treasure's Ronald McDonald Video Game
#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 th...
retrovania-vgjunk.blogspot.co.uk posted by Kotaku Mar 20 2012 03:00 GMT
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BioWare's Least Awkward Love Scene
#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 critiq...
masseffectrule34.tumblr.com posted by Kotaku Mar 17 2012 03:00 GMT
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I Have a Hard Time Believing This Duke Nukem 3D Map Was Drawn From Memory, But Okay
#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, str...
mapstalgia.tumblr.com posted by Kotaku Mar 17 2012 03:30 GMT
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Why Kickstarter is Best For Old Games & Dead Genres
#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 - d...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 16 2012 04:00 GMT
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Lay Down Your Guns, Nintendo, Sega & Atari
#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 »
vgjunk.tumblr.com posted by Kotaku Mar 16 2012 03:30 GMT
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In Which Jennifer Aniston & Matthew Perry Teach us About Windows 95
#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 of...
en.wikipedia.org posted by Kotaku Mar 15 2012 04:00 GMT
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Street Fighting Across America
#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 cal...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 15 2012 03:30 GMT
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There is a Fighting Game Based on Les Misérables
#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 yea...
db.tigsource.com posted by Kotaku Mar 15 2012 03:00 GMT
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Hell is a Dennis Hopper Video Game
#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 »
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 14 2012 03:00 GMT
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George Washington & Ben Franklin, as Seen by Video Games in 1993
#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. ...
kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Mar 13 2012 04:00 GMT
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How to Look Like C-3PO. Or Mark Hamill. Or a Stormtrooper.
#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 ...
retroist.com posted by Kotaku Mar 13 2012 03:30 GMT
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Science Proves Old Video Games Were Super Hard
#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 ...
technologyreview.com posted by Kotaku Mar 13 2012 03:00 GMT
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Total Recall Will Return Next Week
#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 M...
threadless.com posted by Kotaku Mar 10 2012 04:00 GMT
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