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Tag results: Video game history

Control Freaks

An analysis of how three weird-but-widespread game controllers shaped the way we play.

Intellectual Pinball

Q: Following the great video game crash of 1983, where did arcade operators and bar owners go next? A: Trivia games!

Retro Psychology

Two memory scholars published a 1983 book on the psychology of video games. What elements of gaming culture are still with us, and what have faded away?

The World’s Most Pawsome Mascot

The story of the world’s greatest video game mascot, as it’s never been told before! Let’s discuss how great Bubsy T. Bobcat is … according to Bubsy T. Bobcat!

Retail’s Tech Champion

Sears and Roebuck—a firm that has seen better days—helped sell the public on computers, video games, and online services. (They made great catalogs, too.)

Australian Rules Nintendo

What an Australia-only NES game secretly reveals about many of the early Nintendo games that came out in the United States.

The Knockoff Game

How the success of the Game Boy inspired a variety of rip-off consoles sold under a variety of bizarre corporate structures. This goes deeper than the Lynx.

An Extra Serving

The history of NESticle is so rich that some details wouldn’t fit into Ernie's recent Motherboard piece. He’s putting some of them here.
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