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CultureTotal RecallThis Nintendo Was Inside A Television Set
I don’t know what it is about old Nintendo hardware that makes it so interesting. Maybe it’s because, outside of Nintendo’s home run successes, there are a lot of straight-up strange devices in the company’s history as well. Not weird in a bad way, mind you. Just in a “well, it’s awesome somebody thought this…
By Luke Plunkett Published April 1, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Joys Of A Console’s First Moments
Know what I tend to remember consoles by? Not their games, or controllers, or even hardware casings. I usually remember them for their boot-up jingles. As silly as that sounds, those first few seconds of animation and music really set the tone for what the platform holder hopes is to come, and more than any…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 29, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallOnly In The 80’s Would They Put Video Games On A VHS Tape
Video games have made their home on any number of storage mediums over the years, from compact discs to cassette tapes to plastic cartridges. Someone even, in the 1980s, thought it was a good idea to put them on video tapes. It wasn’t. In the mid-to-late-80’s, three companies began working on consoles designed to use…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 28, 2011 -
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Sunday Comics
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published March 21 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published March 21 – Read more of Nerf…
By Owen Good Published March 27, 2011 -
CultureTotal Recall
Nintendo’s First Console Is One You’ve Never Played
So Nintendo’s first home console was the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom, right? Nope. The company’s first foray into home video gaming actually dates back to 1977, six whole years before the Famicom was released in Japan. That “home console” was actually a series of machines called “Color TV”, which were living room versions of popular arcade…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 25, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallSega’s Most “Shameful”, “Sick” And “Disgusting” Video Game
No, we’re not talking about Sonic The Hedgehog, in which an animal makes out with a human. We’re talking about Night Trap, a Sega CD game released in 1992 that may have been the stormiest tea cup in video game history. Developed by Digital Pictures, a studio that specialised in the full-motion-video-laden games of the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 24, 2011 -
CultureTotal Recall
This Game Boy Wasn’t That Portable, You Know
The very last model of the Game Boy was the Game Boy Micro. It was tiny. You couldn’t just put it in your pocket, you could lose it in there. Now let’s compare that sleek handheld with something from 1991. It’s easy to remember the original Game Boy existing as a lone entity. You owned…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 23, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallTen Years Ago Today, The Last Game Boy Was Born
On March 21, 2001, stores in Japan began selling the first units of the Game Boy Advance. There are few sentences that can better describe how far video games have come in the past decade than that. Ten years ago, the words “Game Boy” were still synonymous with not just Nintendo’s handheld domination, but the…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 22, 2011 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published March 14 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published March 16 – Read more of Nerf…
By Owen Good Published March 20, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallSo Who The Hell Is This Peter Molyneux Guy, Anyway?
Whenever the subject of the Fable series or its outspoken creator Peter Molyneux pops up, a lot of people question why the man is given so much airtime. Why people give a hoot about the games he’s making. He seems to be known by many as simply the guy behind Fable. Or that guy who…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 17, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallWait A Minute, This Movie Wasn’t About Video Games At All
Most video game movies are about actual video games. Unless you’re talking about Tron, The Last Starfighter, or 1983 classic Joy Sticks, which is about little more than an arcade, kids and flimsy excuses to get some tits on the screen. Being made in the early 1980s, and featuring the struggle to keep a popular…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 16, 2011 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published March 7 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published March 11 – Read more of Nerf…
By Owen Good Published March 13, 2011 -
CultureTotal Recall
Microsoft Has Now Spent Over Ten Years In The Console Business
Time flies, doesn’t it? One day, you’re thinking only Sega and Nintendo are capable of building quality, successful gaming hardware. The next, you wake up to find that Microsoft is building a video games console. Yet it’s been eleven years to the day that the world awoke to such a scenario, as it was at…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 11, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallRemembering Sony’s Least Popular “Console”
Sony has released four video game machines that have been, to varying degrees, a success. Today, we’re going to look at a fifth that wasn’t. That machine was the PSX. A hybrid video game console and home media centre, it may have looked pretty and boasted some impressive technology, but it was also one of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 10, 2011 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Another Videogame Webcomic did not publish this week. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Feb. 28 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira…
By Owen Good Published March 6, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Greatest Video Game Movie Ever Made
I’ve a long-standing argument that there’s never really been a great video game movie. Just a few decent ones. That rule actually needs a little explaining. You see, I mean there’s never really been a great video game adaptation While flicks like Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider and Silent Hill have their fans, none of…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 2, 2011 -
CultureTotal Recall
Classic PC Magazine Covers Will Scratch Your Sci-Fi Or Fantasy Itch
A lot of people remember now-defunct magazine Computer Gaming World for the fact it was one of the world’s finest PC gaming rags. Me, I just remember it because of these badass covers. While game magazines today rely on images supplied by a publisher, or sleek, stylistic pieces drawn up by an internal art team,…
By Luke Plunkett Published March 1, 2011 -
Culture
Sunday Comics
Welcome to your Sunday read of the week’s best in web comics. Make sure to click on the expand button in the bottom right to enlarge each comic. Awkward Zombie by Katie Tiedrich published Feb. 21 – Read more of Awkward Zombie Nerf NOW!! by Josué Pereira published Feb. 25 – Read more of Nerf…
By Owen Good Published February 27, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallThe Zelda Games That Weren’t Really “Zelda” Games
If you want to get canonical, Skyward Sword will be the 14th game in the Legend of Zelda series. But it’s not the 14th Zelda game ever made. Not when you count these spin-off games! For a long time – and excluding the CD-i titles that were more bootleg than spin-off – Nintendo was perfectly…
By Luke Plunkett Published February 26, 2011
