Game history
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A beloved trilogy ending on a bad note haunts a publisher for a decade
Remakes keep getting greenlit because nostalgia sells with far less risk
Sega exiting the console business changed who could afford to make hardware
Nintendo's seal of quality rebuilt trust after the crash of 1983
Tetris spent years as a legal tug of war over who owned it
Online play turned launch day from a release into a rolling event
Battle royale swallowed the shooter market and nobody has escaped its gravity
Metroidvania is a fan-made label that somehow became a real genre
Day one patches proved that shipping is now just another milestone
Chess has survived centuries of rule tweaks that almost nobody uses
The first games were made on university mainframes long before arcades existed
The switch to disc media rewrote what a game could store
Arcade cabinets were designed to eat quarters and that shaped early difficulty
The video game crash of 1983 was less about bad games and more about bad business
The best house rules get adopted by the publisher in the next edition
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