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Old News '95: Sega Might Sell Vodka In M-Rated Games
Talk of urinals and deodorant ads in games got me wondering how long people have been talking about in-game ads. I found some chatter from 1995. The era of "Cool Spot," the 7Up video game and other in-game ad dreams. More »Old News '90: Nintendo Says NES Final Fantasy Is Geared To Adults
We've been writing about Final Fantasy this week, so how about we study how people used to write about this huge franchise. Like back in 1990, when the first game was coming to America. How did people/Nintendo explain it? More »Old News '96: BioWare Started For $100,000
Before they were a part of Electronic Arts and bringing Dragon Age: Origins to the masses, BioWare was small and scrappy. And one of their founders walked around the office barefoot. More »Old News '01: "Star Fox Adventures... Should Keep Adventure Enthusiasts More Than Happy"
Inspired by Crecente's posts about Epic Mickey I went digging for some older Disney stories. That brought me to E3 2001 stories. That brought me to paragraphs about how awesome the GameCube debut line-up was at that show. More »Old News '01: Gran Turismo Made PlayStation The Market Leader
Racing gaming has always been a competitive genre. For a while, there was no contest. Fresh off this week's latest news bit about Gran Turismo and with a copy of Forza 3 on my desk, I wanted to look back. More »Old News '96: Nintendo Also Increasing Storage Capacity, Hopefully, Maybe
The PlayStation 3 may be expanding to 250 Gigabytes in the United States next month, but a mere 13 years ago Nintendo was working on its own storage expansion. A whole 64MB more storage capacity was coming. With Zelda. More »Old News '82: Video Games Threaten The Model Industry
Before video games were a threat to society at large, they were a threat to the hobby of model-making. We're not talking about the creation of attractive people who appear on magazines. No, this is the other kind of modeling. More »Old News '03: UMD Is The Way To Go
There's no room for you in the PSPgo, UMD. But, yes, Sony used to say you were awesome. That started six years ago. More »Old News '00: Maybe Games Can Be Made In Four Months And Maybe Bungie Can Make Them
The path to the episodic game was being paved at least a decade ago and someone wanted us to have the impression that Bungie might be on that road. More »Old News '97: Sony Forces Nintendo Game Prices Down
What does every gamer have to thank Sony for? Let's jump back a dozen years to recall a happy moment when games got cheaper. More »Old News '94: Tim Schafer Ditching Ham Sandwich Puzzles
It was just 15 years ago that designer Tim Schafer had to tell a reporter how one of his games differed from the other, and to do so he invoked the use of bread and mayonnaise. More »Old News '89: Sega Genesis Will Be Arcade-Awesome, Include Headphone Jack
There was a time when Sega was busy announcing its new 16-bit system — and making sure that didn't cast any doubt on its partnership with... Tonka? More »Old News '87: Zelda Is Going To Be Bigger Than Mario
Once a week, let's dig up an old bit of news and see what became of it. Today we've got Nintendo in 1987 predicting that the Zelda NES "game pak" will be huge. Bold words, Nintendo. More »