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1981 – Our First Glimpse of Mario

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The first time we met Mario, he appeared in the game Donkey Kong. Donkey Kong was Nintendo’s first big hit in North America. Back when the game was released, Mario was known as Jumpman, 35 years on there have been many huge games focused on Mario. Donkey Kong was one of the earliest and the […]

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In 1979 we saw the release of Asteroids which joined a list of games that were the major hits of the golden age of arcade games. Asteroids was a shooter game and had a space theme much like Space Invaders, which was released a year before Asteroids. Although it was similar to Space Invaders, Asteroids […]

80’s gaming – Pac-Man Gaming in the 1980’s brought us some iconic games in the form of Donkey Kong, Tetris and, of course, the Super Mario Bros! To kick start this awesome decade of gaming was the ghost-munching Pac-Man. Released in 1980 by game develop Namco, the idea of the game was to control Pac-Man through […]

Invading arcades around the world – Space Invaders Created by Tomohiro and produced by Japanese electronic game manufacturer Taito Corp, 1978 saw Space Invaders hit arcades in Japan before making its way around the world. Rumour even has it that due to its popularity in Japan, the ever-lasting arcade game led to a coin shortage […]

An arcade legend is born: Pong One of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity was released in November 1972 in the form of Pong. Originally produced by Atari, Pong started off as an arcade game before Atari released Home Pong in 1975, for the public to play the game in the comfort of […]

For good or for bad we must all admit the internet has had a profound effect on our lives and continues to create and generate debate on all things from kitten fails to space flight. Along with this debate comes an inexhaustible amount of ideas that spread with the right level of uniqueness like wild […]

NOW OPEN! A Pac-Man themed restaurant, named ‘Level 257’, has opened in Chicago at the Woodfield Mall A Pac-Man themed restaurant has now opened in Woodfield Mall, Chicago, and is a wonderful 40,000 square feet. The restaurant, Level 257, is only currently open for some though! “Beta testers” are being let in to book reservations […]

WATCH! Tekken 7 opening movie Everyone loves a bit of old Tekken, even though there have been mixed reviews about the latest character Lucky Chloe, and yesterday the cinematic opening for the upcoming full arcade release of Tekken 7 was finally revealed! The video features core Tekken characters Kazuya Mishima and Heihachi Mishima having it out superior to a […]

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