The Tetris World Record Has Been Obliterated

Two million points over the previous record. The world of ‘classic’ Tetris (the NES version, basically) has been chewing up column inches of late thanks to the news that the game has finally been “beaten” after 34 years. That feat was achieved by Willis “Blue Scuti” Gibson, who managed to reach the game’s kill screen…

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Is This The World’s Smallest Game Boy?

We hope you have tiny hands. YouTuber Elliot Coll has discovered a teeny, tiny Game Boy which makes the Game Gear Micro look positively oversized. Coll – who also runs The Retro Future channel – stumbled across the $85 device while browsing AliExpress. It’s totally unofficial, of course, and appears to be powered by a…

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You are What you Play – By Howard Scott Warshaw

That’s the first law of Hollywood. The video game industry always wanted to be like Hollywood. Who would know this better than me, the man who did the most notorious movie conversion of them all? But then again, nobody knows anything. If anybody knew anything then why would major Hollywood studios reject the original Star…

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