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Anyone who played an NES remembers characters strobing in and out of view when the screen filled up,
Nintendo sued to kill the Game Genie, arguing that a device altering its games created infringing de
Move the background slower than the foreground and a flat scene acquires depth — the same principle
European consoles ran at 50Hz because European mains electricity runs at 50Hz. American and Japanese
Pac-Man has no ending. Neither does Donkey Kong. Both simply arrive, after hours of perfect play, at
Before DRM servers and online activation, publishers fought piracy with physical objects: cardboard
For a decade, consoles were sold on a single number — 8, 16, 32, 64 — that told consumers essentiall
In 1999 two small companies built software that let PlayStation games run on ordinary computers. Son
In 1986 Nintendo attached a floppy disk drive to the Famicom and installed kiosks across Japan where
Announced in 1983 as a unified standard uniting fourteen Japanese manufacturers, the MSX was Microso
Region locking began as an accident of television standards and hardened into a deliberate business
After the 1983 crash, Nintendo decided that anyone who wanted to make an NES game would need its per
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