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#coverstory As a box art fetishist, this might be the best website I've ever seen. It's called Box vs Box, and its purpose is to compare the box art of Japanese video games and their Western counterparts. More »

#outrun I'm not American, and I don't live in America, so my familiarity with Sonic (apparently a drive-in burger chain) is limited. I am however very familiar with classic arcade racer OutRun, which Sonic is tapping into with this retro-infused commercial. More »

#totalrecall These wonderful shots are courtesy of Bleeping Relics, and show the control boards of a trio of old Pong consoles. These old analog systems weren't adjusted via menu screens or fancy UI systems. If you wanted to change something, well, there was a button right there on the console. More »

#maxpayne It's not that common that a video game character realizes that he's actually in a video game. And like any fourth-wall breaking shenanigans, it can be a tricky maneuver to pull off. More »

#starwars Happy Star Wars day! More »

#letsdance You know what the world needs more of? Choreographed dance routines. You know what I'm talking about. This is what I'm talking about. More »

#nintendo I hated the N64 pad. Hated it. Didn't like the button placement, didn't like the ergonomics, really didin't like the fact the little joystick was broken on half the controllers you ever picked up. More »

#starwars There are loads of terrible Star Wars games. We've talked about them here before. But there's different reasons someone can say a game is terrible. They might not like the genre, or the platform, or the way the game has treated the Star Wars canon. More »

#sega Take a look at this commercial, for the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis). It's for the Indian market, and while it's a little rough around the edges, it's mostly what you'd expect from the mid-90s. Except for that weird "Shaw Wallace" business. More »

#assassinscreed Nothing will make you realise just how old this console generation is than today's Total Recall, which looks at the very first concept art ever put down on paper/computer for the project that would become Assassin's Creed. More »

#sega We've looked at Sega's pioneering role in the world of 3D gaming before here on Total Recall, but only briefly stopped on Time Traveler, one of the company's two and only attempts at holographic, 3D arcade gaming. More »

#callofduty Call of Duty: Black Ops II. Activision and Treyarch will spend the next six months telling you this game is a sequel, but the fact the game's name starts with "Call of Duty" reminds us we're way past the point of using the number "II" when it comes to these shooters. More »

#grandtheftauto In 1976, a short film called C'était un Rendez-vous was released in France. It ran for ten minutes. And if you've ever played a driving game you'll probably want to watch it. More »

#totalrecall If cheap magazines or dummy's guides to dummy's games are the only exposure you have to video games and the world of words on paper, I'm sorry you weren't gaming in the 1980s, when you would have been treated to some of these. More »

#nightmare Yes my gatekeeper!! More »

#romance Yesterday on #Speakup, commenter chadoban asked which video game characters we'd all go gay (or straight) for. Your answers were as varied as they were enjoyable, so Chris Person thought he'd grab some of the most popular ones and render them into gifs. More »

#music Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, video game publishers and their cohorts in the marketing world thought it would be a good idea to use rap in their commercials. It was not. More »

Almost a year ago to the day, I wrote a piece on Sony's Net Yaroze, a kit which allowed PS1 users to make their own video games. Well, anyone who was interested in the subject, please check out this enormous feature over on Gamasutra, which even has in-depth interviews from the men behind it. [Gamasutra] More »

#nintendo After I posted those amazing old Zelda images from Nintendo Power the other day, I got an email from reader Yannick, who just so happens to run a blog that collects all kinds of awesome old Nintendo Power artwork by Katsuya Terada. More »

#batman If you're sensitive to unnecessary amounts of drama in your video game advertisements, a word of caution: this contains an unnecessary amount of drama for a video game commercial. More »

#segacd The Sega CD was home to some terrible things, but it was also home to some wonderful curiosities as well. And few are as curious as Micronet's 1993 strategy game The Third World War. More »

#gamecrazy Game Crazy, a now-defunct minor player in the US games retail space, operated for around a decade, kicking off in 1999 and winding down in 2010. Those involved with the chain, a subsidiary of Movie Gallery, will tell you its because increased competition squeezed it out of the market. More »

#zelda In the late 1980s, Nintendo's internal development teams set out to make two games that would forever define its classic Super Nintendo Entertainment System. One was Super Mario World. The other was The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. More »

#polyphonydigital This is Omega Boost. It was an OK shooter released in 1999 on the PlayStation. I remember it, and pay tribute to it here today, not for the game, but for everything around it. More »

#portal Portal may be the name for a contemporary series from Valve, about mad robots and jumpsuits, but it's also the name of a video game first released nearly twenty years ago. More »

#masseffect A little while back, Jimmy "Big Giant Circles" Hinsen released an album of music that he'd written for Mass Effect 2 but that didn't make the cut. More »

#princeofpersia At the end of March, Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner found the source code for the game years after he'd thought it was lost. More »

#totalrecall Us 21st century kids with our Unreal Engines and fancy computers think our animation is just so shit hot. And it is! But it had to come from somewhere, and that somewhere are these very humble beginnings. More »

#arcades The 80's were an awesome and bizarre time for arcades. Nobody knows this better than Gary Vincent, owner and operator of the American Classic Arcade Musuem in New Hampshire. For the past 3 years, he's been shipping 30 arcade cabinets to PAX East in an attempt to recapture the feel of those classic 1980's arcades. More »

#konami Unlike the Konami of the day, which relies almost entirely on milking a couple of key franchises and selling mobile games in Japan, the Konami of the 1980s was a more exciting company. More »