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The Video Game Industry's Fascination With Slot Machines

Atari and Nintendo started selling their first home video game consoles in the late 70s, and just in the span of a couple of years, the newfound industry saw a great rise in commercially distributed video game products. The Atari 2600 was especially responsible for popularizing games stored on swappable ROM cartridges.While Nintendo’s first home console was released in 1977, the company’s first major gaming console, the NES didn’t come out until 1983. Nintendo Entertainment System today is tied to every retro gamer’s nostalgia, it is also the console that introduced the gaming world to many.This era steered away people from arcade games

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The Long History of Diablo Console Ports

Blizzard Entertainment has always been known as a relatively PC-focused game publisher, defining genres such as Real-Time Strategy with Warcraft and Starcraft and Action-RPGs with Diablo. And while back in the day they released StarCraft on the Nintendo 64 and Warcraft II on the Sony Playstation (among a few other small titles), the majority of their big titles have been focused on PC.However, every mainline Diablo game from its debut in 1997 to the most recent title in 2023, has at some point or another received a console port. From cancelled handheld ports, to feature-exclusive versions, to subjectively better ways to

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Dreamscaper Review

Life, especially as of late, seems like we’re just going through the motions. Several months into a global pandemic and the days feel like they’re beginning to blur together. Depression sits in, and I find myself eating, sleeping, and working over and over again on a loop. Because of this, the protagonist of Dreamscaper, Cassidy, deeply resonated with me. Cassidy battles with depression and a mysterious past that the player has to unravel as they play. During the day, you’ll cultivate new relationships and learn more about the people of Red Haven, and at night you’ll dive deep into your nightmares

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The Pros and Cons of Emulating Illegally Acquired ROMs

We've probably all revisited an old game from our past at one point or another, to reminisce to simpler times, indulge feelings of nostalgia or to share a game that means something to us with our children or loved ones. Remasters are popular for the very same reason, they give us reasons to go back a relive an experience that once gave us joy.We all have different tastes and experiences and because of that, have played different games over our years - some of these could have been rare or abandoned titles that have no accessible presence in the modern world.

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Nintendo making Zelda and Pokemon card mobile games

Nintendos following projects for mobile platforms should be connected with The Legend of Zelda and Pokemon franchise, reports the Wall Street Journal.Nintendo has promised a few years ago to supply five mobile games until March of 2017. The promise partially came true  because they did release three games - Miitomo, Mario Run and Fire Emblem Heroes. So far it has only been mentioned that the next project will be a game from Animal Crossing series, however, it remains a mystery which game will they pick from Nintendo's rich catalog to be the last mobile game out of Nintendo's platforms.However, as reported

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