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Miyamoto and Mario

Mario, of Nintendo fame, isn’t actually Italian. Or at least the real Mario, the actual person the character’s name comes from, isn’t Italian. He’s actually an American. When Shigeru Miyamoto was in California, selling the initial shipments of Donkey Kong cabinets to arcades, the games were stored in a little […]

The First Five Sports Games

10 YARD FIGHT Originally an arcade game from 1983 by Irem, 10 Yard Fight game was ported over to the NES in order to be ready for the launch system. The only real difference between the cabinet and the port was the ability to play defense; the arcade was strictly […]