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GameLine Let You Download Atari Games
Hello and welcome to The Gaming Historian! DLC seems to be a hot topic in gaming these days. At E3 2012, it was probably one of the most used terms at the conference. Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony all...
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Mega Man Was On The Game Gear
Hello and welcome to The Gaming Historian! I have said before that my favorite gaming console is probably the Game Boy. It was the first system I owned that actually belonged to me, and it had so many...
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Mega Man Was On The Genesis Too (Sorta)
Hello and welcome to The Gaming Historian! Last week I discussed Mega Man on the Game Gear, a ridiculously challenging game that combined Mega Man IV and V. This week we are diving into Mega Man: The...
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Apogee – A History
In the 1990’s, PC gaming was dominated by a company called Apogee Software Ltd. Creators and publishers of such series as Duke Nukem, Commander Keen, DOOM, and Death Rally, Apogee dominated with an...
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A Look Back At Dark Castle
Hello and welcome to The Gaming Historian! The Angry Video Game Nerd did an episode on Dark Castle for the Sega Genesis and Philips CD-I, and I couldn’t have been more excited. This game takes me way...
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Mice, Monitors, & Mario
A long time ago, a famous Japanese company by the name of Nintendo created a character named Mario. Since then, Mario has been best known for his 2D platforming adventures on the various Nintendo...
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Canonical Case Study: Castlevania and Contra
The sharp crack of a leathery whip echoes through mausoleum halls, the booming gunshots of an automatic rifle thunder across an alien landscape – these are the signature sights and sounds from two of...
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It’s Supercade Time! Fun Fun Fun!
Shockingly, it has now been 29 years since CBS introduced Saturday Supercade, a multiple-title Saturday morning cartoon that featured many of the top video game properties of the day. The series only...
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The Completist Presents: Metroid – A Love Letter to Samus Aran
Metroid! Need I say more? Why would I bother writing about a game that has been written about pretty much ad infinitum? Even by myself no less! It’s simple, I once again feel like I have something...
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Now You’re Playing With Power – An Intro
As any gamer kid of the 80’s and 90’s can probably tell you, Nintendo Power was the video game bible that we all lived by. Each month, we would wait patiently for the issue to arrive so we could devour...
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Fun Club News #3
For my first few post, I will be taking a look at the issues of the Nintendo Fun Club News that I have. This was the precursor to Nintendo Power, a free newsletter that you could sign up for to get...
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Fun Club News #4
Compared to issue 3, the first thing you will notice about issue 4 of the Nintendo Fun Club News is the expanded color palate and higher gloss pages as Nintendo expanded the quality of the newsletter....
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Fun Club News #5
Ready, Set, Go! It’s time for issue 5 of the Nintendo Fun Club News which features RC Pro Am. This issue is pretty much a copy of the previous issue in terms of layout and design. At this point,...
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Fun Club News #7
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Now that turkey day is over, it’s time to look at the turkey of the Nintendo Fun Club News: Issue 7. Issue 7 was the last issue of the newsletter before the...
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Power #1
Merry Christmas! We’ve reached the premier of the magazine that defined a generation, Nintendo Power! Beyond the the obvious increase in the total size of the magazine compered to the Nintendo Fun Club...
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Power #2
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2015 and issue 2 of Nintendo Power! I’m slightly changing the set-up of my posts. In my first few posts, I’ve been commenting on certain pages of the magazines if I notice...
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Power #3
So after the controversy of issue 2’s cover, Nintendo scaled back the cover of issue 3 for one of the most boring covers…a pair of tennis shoes. Sure they are tennis shoes with rockets…but shoes none...
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Power #4
After patiently waiting since first being announced in issue 3 of the Nintnedo Fun Club News, we finally get a full length feature on Zelda II: The Adventure of Link! Highly anticipated by everyone...
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Power #5
Issue 5 released with the first format change for the magazine. Going back to the Nintendo Fun Club News, the reader mail was always found toward the end of the magazine but this issue it was finally...
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Power #6
T-U-R-T-L-E POWER! By the middle of 1989, we were in the middle of a turtle craze that would last for arguably the next 10+ years. Originally seen in an ad in the last issue of the Nintendo Fun Club...
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Grab Man
Finally finished another Retrogears video and guess what! It’s about another Pac-Man clone. I know, I know, I should really make some videos about something that isn’t Pac-Man… and I will… I promise! I...
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Power #7
Happy Anniversary! Since the Nintendo Fun Club News, Nintendo publications were on a bi-monthly release schedule so issue 7 marks the 1 year anniversary of Nintendo Power. There wasn’t to many...
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Power #8
Overall, issue 8 feels like it spends a lot of time looking forward and not as much on what’s current. But given that this issue would have been produced during the summer of 1989, there wouldn’t have...
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A Look at Console Controllers
Console controllers and gamepads can make or break a system for me. This week I took a look at all the console controllers that have been part of my life and did a mini-review of each. Here’s part 1 of...
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Power #9
The biggest thing that stands out to me regarding issue 9 is the increased highlight on role playing games.By late 1989, Dragon Quest 1 through 3 had already taken Japan by storm and Final Fantasy 1...
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Power #10
I’m guessing most people didn’t realize that this issue of Nintendo Power sees the first mention of a new Nintendo home console on the horizon as well as the next Zelda game after Adventure of Link....
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Playing With Power – Nintendo Power #11
Issue 11 of Nintendo Power features the game that would launch Nintendo’s popularity in to the stratosphere…Super Mario Bros. 3. I really like the cover of this issue as a throwback to the first issue...
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Who Programmed Donkey Kong?
Hello and welcome to The Gaming Historian! Today I’m talking about Donkey Kong (again). What can I say? The history behind this game is so significant that the stories could be made into a movie. I’ve...
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