In the ’80s, some of the classic arcade characters weren’t always called by the names that we know them by today. Pac-Man was originally Puck Man, which was changed in America because of how easily that name could have been defaced into an expletive. Even Mario was internally called Mr. …
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Nintendo has added a new batch of classic games to the Nintendo Switch Online service. Subscribers now have access to three additional Game Boy titles, including Super Mario Land, which has been conspicuously absent from the service up until now. Notable for being the first Super Mario game developed without …
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Billy Mitchell, the competitive arcade gamer and former Donkey Kong world record holder, has settled his feud with arcade scorekeeping website Twin Galaxies, with the latter reinstating his records–albeit as a “historical database.” Courthouse News Service reported last week that Mitchell’s lawsuit against Twin Galaxies reached a confidential settlement, months …
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If you thought Pokemon would be fun as a text adventure game, someone has used ChatGPT-4 to turn Pokemon Emerald into one. As spotted by Polygon, Twitter user Dan Dangond has recently been using the newest version of the AI language model to turn Pokemon Emerald into a text-based adventure …
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King of Kong Billy Mitchell has once again been accused of cheating. Allegedly, new evidence further suggests that he did not use original hardware to perform some of his record-breaking Donkey Kong runs. According to speedrunning YouTuber Karl Jobst, newly found photographs show that Mitchell used a eight-way joystick, rather …
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Billy Mitchell, the professional gamer and hot sauce purveyor who rose to fame for setting several retro video game high scores, is preparing for a return to court. As reported by Axios, the US appeals court gave Mitchell permission to proceed with his defamation suit against Twin Galaxies, the online …
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