Console History
The Game Boy Story: How Nintendo’s Handheld Dominated Portable Gaming
How Gunpei Yokoi's "withered technology" philosophy, Tetris and long battery life turned Nintendo's 1989 Game Boy into a handheld giant.
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Console History
The Original PlayStation: How Sony Entered and Reshaped the Console Market
How a broken Nintendo deal, Ken Kutaragi's persistence and cheap CD-ROMs turned Sony's first console into the first to pass 100 million units.
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Super Mario Bros. (1985): The History and Legacy of a Landmark Game
How Super Mario Bros. came together in 1985: Mario's arcade roots, Miyamoto and Tezuka's design, World 1-1 as a tutorial, Koji Kondo's music and its legacy.
Console History
The Video Game Crash of 1983: What Happened and Why It Mattered
Why the North American console market collapsed between 1983 and 1985, what caused it, and how the crash shaped Nintendo's careful launch of the NES.