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Awesome things: my video game collection (567 video games and 24 consoles), the color orange, indie games, retro & nextgen consoles, and playing video games when I can.

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Do we really need another vintage revival? YEEEEEES WEEEEEEE DOOOOO!!!

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The Zen of old video games

Just let them go.

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What it takes to play video games for a living: Insane hours and tons of stress

Streamers like Ben Bowman can spend up to 18 hours a day 7 days a week streaming games for a living. Today, with an audience of more than 640,000 followers, Bowman has cut back on his streaming … to six days a week. It turns out, streaming video games for a living isn’t all fun and, well, games.

Amazing how we have dreams of playing video games for a living without realizing the amount of stress it involves. Yikes!

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15 NES Games You've Played... But Can't Remember The Name Of

Take a stroll down memory lane and have a look at some NES games you've probably played before, but forgot.

OMG, there have been so many games I played back in the day that I had forgotten about! This article is awesome; thanks for the memories!

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Nintendo grants a final wish to a man who wanted to play Breath of the Wild

So awesome!

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Japanese arcade pioneer and 'Father of Pac-Man' has died

TOKYO (AP) — Masaya Nakamura, the "Father of Pac-Man" who founded the Japanese video game company behind the hit creature-gobbling game, has died. He was 91.

So sad.....

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-NBcP0YUQI)

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In the late 1990s, Nintendo released a disk drive add-on for the N64 that never made its way to the United States -- but now a collector has found an American prototype of the system in Seattle.

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This amazing hack unlocks hundreds of secret 'Super Mario Bros.' levels hidden on the cartridge

There's an amazing, crazy complex hack for unlocking hundreds of secret "Super Mario Bros." levels!

This is awesome, and definitely checking it out tonight!

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Mind-Blowing Facts About Your Favorite NES Games - IGN

Why do mushrooms make Mario bigger? Is Zelda set in a post-apocalyptic future? The answers to these questions, and more, lie within.

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Mortal Kombat Secret Menu

Here’s a cool story: a video was uploaded on Sunday feb 21, 2016, showing that arcade cabinets of the Martal Kombat game have secret menus that went unnoticed for more than 30 years. The secret menus were meant to be used for diagnostics but they can also allow you to cheat your initials into high scores, view character fatality endings and more.

Read more about this story and watch the video online at newsmax.com here: http://www.newsmax.com/TheWire/mortal-kombat-arcade-game-secret/2016/02/25/id/716002/

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This is the fastest 'Super Mario Bros.' completion time yet

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Happy bday NES!!! On October 18, 1985, Nintendo renamed the Famicom and released it in North America as the NES.

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Happy Bday Mario!!

Nintendo will celebrate the 30th anniversary of Super Mario, one of the best-known characters in video game history, at an event in Tokyo Sunday evening where artists will play his theme music to fans dressed up as the hyperactive plumber.

Read more about his bday online at msn.com here: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/mario-still-super-after-30-years/ar-AAed4e9?ocid=ansmsnnews11

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Original Pac-Man Sketches by Toru Iwatani

Designtaxi.com released a series of images from Toru Iwatani, the creator of Pac-Man, showing his early sketchbook for this iconic game. The images were originally posted on Reddit, and have since been released, retweeted, and shared across the entire web.

Read the article online at designtaxi.com here: http://designtaxi.com/news/378728/Pac-Man-Creator-Toru-Iwatani-Reveals-Original-Drafts-For-His-Iconic-Game/

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Nintendo Quest

As a video game collector, I have amassed a good chunk of video game gems. I’m not really into hoarding games of trying to get every single game for a specific console; I’m more into collecting games that I remember made me very happy as a child.

In recent years though, collecting video games has turned into a business, with more and more people looking to cash in on old video games by reselling them for insane amounts of money. But still, there are some people that just do it for fun.

Nintendo Quest id a documentary that started as a Kickstarter project, with the film depicting the challenge of finding every official Nintendo-licensed NES 8-bit game in 30 days without using a computer. Currently playing only in Canada, hopefully we will see the film in the US or online via Netflix.

Read more about this documentary online at wired.com here: http://www.wired.com/2015/07/nintendo-quest-movie/

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First Inductees to the Video Game Hall of Fame

On May 17, 2015, the Video Game Hall of Fame selected its first set of inductees to their list: Pong, Pac-Man, Tetris, Doom, World of Warcraft, and Super Mario Brothers. There will no doubt be a lot of people that will disagree with this selection, but, the fact is, all of this games not only influenced the video game world, but also reshaped the way video games were created. Some of these games introduced platforming, while others revolutionized the PvP arena. But in the end, each game has become an icon to every one that has become a player or an spectator.

Read more about this article online at Yahoo! Games here: https://games.yahoo.com/news/pong-tetris-video-game-hall-fames-first-class-143522726.html