Duck Hunt: NES Zapper Memories of Shooting Digital Ducks
The first time I fired the NES Zapper at our wood-paneled Zenith television, I was convinced I was witnessing actual magic. It was Christmas morning...
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The Magic of A Link to the Past: Zelda’s SNES Masterpiece
I was thirteen when I first stepped into the rain-soaked opening of A Link to the Past, huddled in the basement of our split-level home...
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How Mario Kart 64 Became the Ultimate Party Game
How Mario Kart 64 Became the Ultimate Party Game The smell of microwave popcorn and Mountain Dew. The glow of a CRT TV illuminating a...
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NES: The Console That Defined a Generation
The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, took the video game console further and higher. It has left a lasting imprint on the history of video-games...
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Star Fox: How Super FX Chip 3D Graphics Blew My Mind
The first time I saw Star Fox in action was at a Toys “R” Us demo kiosk in early 1993. I was fifteen, awkwardly hovering...
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Nintendo Virtual Boy: My First (Painful) VR Experience
It was the summer of 1995, and I was working at Electronics Boutique in the Woodland Mall—one of those summer jobs you take because employee...
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Donkey Kong Country: The SNES Graphics That Blew My Mind
November 1994. Clinton was president, Ace of Base was somehow on every radio station, and I was a gangly sixteen-year-old with an unhealthy obsession with...
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Super Mario Bros: The Game That Started My Lifelong Passion
Christmas morning, 1985. My dad had worked his usual night shift as a security guard at the mall, but instead of going straight to bed...
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Game Boy: How Nintendo’s Gray Brick Pioneered My Portable Gaming
“Are we there yet?” I must have asked that question two dozen times during our family’s epic road trip from Michigan to Florida in the...
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The Magic of Shigeru Miyamoto’s Creations
I was seven years old when I first met Mario, though neither of us knew we’d be lifelong companions. It was Christmas 1985, and that...
