This Day in Gaming, April 24th

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This Day in Gaming, April 24th

1992: Hudson Soft releases Star Parodier for TurboGrafx. We need more cheesy game parodies. Weird Al, grab some dev kits and get to work.

2000: Sega promotes Peter Moore to president and chief operating officer due to his success with the Dreamcast launch. Moore is extremely successful in the position, mystically transforming Sega into Microsoft. Mark Wilson

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