Mario Bros.: Lost World

Nintendo is a company in love with its past, or at least the popular parts of its past. Except for Super Mario Bros.…

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

DEMON ARMS | The Darkness II is, not surprisingly, much darker than the Darkness. (2K Games)

Famicom Carts | Mint condition Nintendo games from Super Potato, from a long time ago. (Photo: Michael McWhertor)

While famed film critic Roger Ebert says he still hasn't changed his mind about video games, and his view that they…

The Great Gatsby—the "NES" version, that is—started its strange life as a single screen shot, a pixelated recreation…

Long hours, hard work, crap weather. Then there's the boredom, the long hours of boredom, followed by the bursts of…

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Some time last year, I landed in Los Angeles. I was catching a connecting flight, the bane of the expedient…