- Visiting Portugal anytime soon? You might want to sleep in
this
Super Mario Bros. themed Airbnb room,
then! Story comes courtesy Thrillist. And, check out our past episodes on SMB1 and SMB2!
- Fans are desperate for Nintendo to release some info, any
info, on the upcoming NX console. So much so that they’re now speculating a
Papa John’s news release could be about the console. Polygon pokes fun at the
phenomenon here.
- Nintendo executives and ads sales people might be losing
their collective minds though, judging from this (really loud)
commercial for new colors on the 2DS. Starring Luigi!
- Gamasutra has a
really good blog entry from John Szczepaniak on the dark side of the Japanese
gaming industry’s work practices. I found that article in The Game Beat Weekly,
which is Kyle Orland’s awesome weekly email about the gaming industry.
Subscribe to it here!
- From Geek.com, a Commodore 64 has been running an auto
shop for 25 years. Read more here!
ON THIS DAY (OR CLOSE
TO IT!) IN VIDEO GAME HISTORY…
- MORTAL KOMBAT! … was released
in the arcades on October 8, 1992. The gory fighter from Midway Games was
hella popular, thanks to its mixture of Street
Fighter 2 mechanics with bloody combat.
- Ogre
Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber came out for the N64 today in 2000.
Quest’s follow-up to their earlier games was a bit more accessible than the
originals, but still just a niche title that’s now a cult classic. (And
speaking of, Tactics
Ogre came out on October 6, 1995 for the SNES in Japan.)
Video game history
information comes from GameFAQs and Moby Games. And as always, if you’d like to support the show, do so via our Amazon link.
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