Every Smash Bros Fighter Who Debuted on a Game Boy
Around May 1990 a 19-year-old at HAL Laboratory named Masahiro Sakurai drew up a proposal for a small Game Boy game. He built it on a Twin Famicom fitted with a HAL trackball and... Read More →
Author: Jax Cole
Every Wizarding Sport and Game in Harry Potter
Quidditch began, by its inventor’s own account, in a temper. In the margin of a first edition of Philosopher’s Stone, annotated for a charity auction and printed by The Guardian on 18 May 2013,... Read More →
Every National Toy Hall of Fame Toy in the Toy Story Movies
America’s National Toy Hall of Fame announced its first class in 1998, and it had 11 toys in it. That was generous by the standards of these things; baseball’s first Hall of Fame class,... Read More →
Every Game Dug Up From the Atari Landfill
On the morning of Saturday, April 26, 2014, a backhoe began digging into the old city landfill at Alamogordo, New Mexico, while a sandstorm blew in “gusts of wind peaking at sixty miles per... Read More →
Every Woodstock Act in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
On June 7, 1993, Pete Townshend went to Cleveland to help break ground for the Rock Hall’s new home, in the company of Chuck Berry, Billy Joel, Sam Phillips and Ruth Brown, and summed... Read More →
Every Pharaoh Whose Body Was Found in His Own Pyramid
At the end of May 1934 Jean-Philippe Lauer slid feet first, arms raised above his head, through a robbers’ gap beside a granite plug of nearly 4 tonnes and dropped 2.70 m to the... Read More →
Every Royal Mummy in the Pharaohs' Golden Parade
On the evening of Saturday 3 April 2021, a convoy of converted army trucks, painted black and gold and labelled in English, Arabic and hieroglyphs, pulled out of Tahrir Square in Cairo carrying the... Read More →
Every Video Game Tune That Made the UK Singles Chart
The best-known tune in Tetris reached number 6 in Britain in October 1992, and it is not on this list. Doctor Spin, the act behind that “Tetris” single, was a one-off disguise for Andrew... Read More →
Every Person Who Has Been to Both Space and the Bottom of the Ocean
622.085 kilometres is what Guinness World Records certifies as the greatest vertical extent travelled by any individual within Earth’s exosphere. Guinness worked it out for Kathryn Sullivan by taking the apogee of the shuttle... Read More →
Every Father-Son Duo LeBron James Has Played With or Against
LeBron James played his first NBA game on October 29, 2003, in Sacramento, and lost it 106-92. He had come to the league from St. Vincent-St. Mary High School in Akron and gone first... Read More →
