Video game history

On February 4th, 1999, one of the greatest hoaxes in video game history began. The Zelda fandom was shock by a…

Preserving video game history can be a tricky affair as time marches on and older games become unplayable. A game…

A prominent Donkey Kong forum has removed some scores supposedly earned by legendary arcade game player Billy…

The Guinness Book of World Records has confirmed to Kotaku that it has removed Todd Rogers’ record Dragster high…

In 1982, video game score-chaser Todd Rogers supposedly set a world record time of 5.51 seconds in the Atari 2600…

The current world record for the Atari 2600 racing game Dragster is 5.51 seconds. Thirty-five years after it was…

The 2000 Nintendo 64 game Perfect Dark was full of secrets. There were cheat codes to find, hidden pieces of cheese…

The original generation of Pokémon had 150 special monsters to find. One of the most elusive was the legendary…

Here’s a fun little relic from the earliest days of game development: the original contract for the IBM port of Waste…

Here's an interesting look through video game history from Redditor and Imgur user zadoc, who posts a picture of…

We've seen plenty of timelines that put video game release dates in order. And recently, we've begun making…

The Sega Saturn was pretty unattractive. The NES was pretty much just a box. Compared to some of the consoles found…

As the cultural impact of gaming becomes more apparent to societies where the hobby was once considered as…