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One day in the hopefully not too distant future, we’ll be able to fold electronic paper in a certain way and it will spring to life with our favorite games animated in real, physical three-dimensional glory. It’ll look something like that recreation of Pacman with specially programmed roombas. Until that day, though, we’ll have to [...]

Tetris, the game that gave us bloody blisters and we kept playing, was first released 25 years ago today, and the world’s gamers have been hopelessly addicted ever since. To celebrate, mental_floss looks at some wannabes and homages in their listicle of 10 Variations on Tetris, although we’re a little surprised by the absence of [...]

Here’s some advice from a child of the eighties: this Christmas season, give your kids the gift of lowered expectations. Because no matter what Monopoly says, we’ll never be homeowners. Not even on Baltic.
10. Let’s Be Safe!: The geniuses at Milton Bradley were sitting in a room in 1986 and were all, “You [...]

Some time ago we mentioned, in a listicle about obscure musical genres, our developing taste for Chiptune: music made with the primitive chips used in the first generation of videogame systems. With that in mind, the musical nerds over at Unreality have compiled a list of 10 Songs and Sounds from 8-Bit Nintendo Games.
It’s a [...]