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Remembering Pokémon Pinball for the Pokémon Mini

  Lately I've been thinking a lot about the late Gunpei Yokoi's core design philosophy, the one that led to him parting ways with Nintendo when the company decided to focus on creating more powerful hardware. Lateral thinking with withered technology. The idea...

New Release: Alien Breed 3D HD

Development house Team17 has become a prolific, popular company best known for its Worms series, which has appeared on nearly every platform since the 16-bit era. But in 1991, they were a new group that formed from the European demo scene. Their first major release...

R-Type DX Pre-Orders End Nov 1

For those who love old-school Shoot-Em-Ups, Retro-Bit’s release of R-Type DX will have an exclusive pre-order run through Nov. 1. “The epic arcade shoot 'em up returns in R-Type DX! In our first-ever Game Boy Color release, you can enjoy the first two entries of the...
Donkey Kong – by Eugenio Angueir

Donkey Kong – by Eugenio Angueir

Donkey Kong not only started a trend with platform games back then, but it also created a vast universe of games based on the two main characters from the game (Donkey Kong and Mario, then known as Jumpman). I remember seeing this game for the very first time in the...

ZORK – by Jon – GenX Grownup

ZORK – by Jon – GenX Grownup

I can still remember my Atari 800.  The screen went that deep shade of blue, and the cursor appeared, waiting for me to type something… No joystick… No sprites… Just text. Then these words appeared: “You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a...

This Day In Video Game History

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