"Last time I talked about the video game crash of 1983 and what it did to the video game market in North America. While the crash did destroy gaming in America, the rest of the world continued to create video games and Japan became a big market for them. In this entry I will explain how Nintendo brought video games back to North America."

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Game Podunk’s blogger, Dyeknom shows that even though mascots were successful in every facet of commercial industry in presenting a product to sell, it was a different story when it came to incorporating a mascot into a video game. From being it Chester Cheetah to Capt'n Crunch find out how consumers took the appearance of a mascot in a video game and what is happening today with the “commercial mascots.” Read on for more details.

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"Nintendo [has created] a separate "core" myth - that "core" games are made in 3D. You can tell this from their direction with the Mario series: there wasn't a real Super Mario Bros. game for almost 15 years! Instead, we got Super Mario 64 and Sunshine, which while I loved both definitely weren't Super Mario Bros. Nintendo seems to have spent the last decade or so thinking that 3D Mario is the new core Mario, and that they don't need Super Mario Bros. anymore."

ZeldaInformer via www.zeldainformer.com »

"1. I’m glad my designers gave me a few more things to do. Sitting at the top of some scaffolding and tossing barrels got awfully boring.

2. No, I don’t have fleas.

3. I do love bananas, especially in a nice banana cream pie.

4. My signature red neck ties are custom made by Dixie Kong.

5. King K. Rool is my arch-nemesis."

gamepodunk via gamepodunk.com »

"The gaming industry has changed radically since Pong and Pac-Man were causing traffic jams at your local arcade. Most of the changes are for the good, some of them aren’t. It’s weird because we, as a nation, are no longer as innocent as we once were yet things that were commonplace back in the day are completely offensive to us. Can you imagine a big budget Hollywood “family” flick featuring underage drinking (The Goonies, Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, basically any Molly Ringwald movie)? Yet..."

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"Having attended many many (many) MegaCon's in the past, I really feel that this little Orlando geek convention has hit a nice stride. At first I came for the comics, and kept coming despite the growing number of anime fans. But then came the video game fans, card gamers, RPGers, wrestlers, actors, playmates, and as years have passed, it is really becoming the east coast *bleep* cousin of the San Diego Comic Con (we have belly dancing at our cons, eat that Cali!)"

PacoDG via www.bingegamer.net »