There is an interesting point here. Even with all of the success had by games created for adults, they still have a yearning for the days of yesteryear. Why is that? Is it the nostalgia?

This is the first in a five-part series looking at the evolution of video games.

A pair of Italian-American siblings waged war against evil mushrooms and flying turtles amid the gurgle and chime of an improbably catchy theme song.

A swift blue hedgehog wheeled about a colorful and conspicuously ramp-rife world.

A man named Pac scarfed down power pellets and dodged a tribe of angry ghosts within a fluorescent labyrinth. [Read the rest]

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