Crazy Kong

What is that... thing? It may look like the NES version of side-scrolling shoot 'em up Contra—horribly smudged—but…

The heat was unbearable. A group of kids scurried to find shade, but they did't find it under trees.

Pure plastic love. It lives on desks. Its lives on shelves. But in Japan, it lives everywhere. Figures are more than…

TAMPA, Fla. - To passersby, T.J., a fit 20-something, is running around a red felt carpet about half the size of a…

It was the hot, sticky summer of 1990. Japan's bubble economy, the period of rapid growth during the 1980s, would…

The quote "Good artists borrow, great artists steal" is often attributed to Pablo Picasso. There doesn't seem to be…

He was only 9. I practically raised him since he was 2. Drive you crazy! Tell him to sit down, he'd stand up. Tell…

The golden age of the American arcade has long since passed, its torch taken up by modern consoles, iPod apps, and…

How would Tim write a Super Mario novel? Who is the David Mamet of video games? Why are gamers so inarticulate? What…

Four years after the PlayStation 3's launch, the console's definitive racer at last arrives. You're forgiven for…