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 →
Category: Gaming
Explore the best gaming facts on FinalWonder, where every post is a complete list worth reading. From original console launch titles to every Pokemon gym leader across the generations, our gaming lists cover the details most players overlook. Browse the full collection below and find your next deep dive into games, hardware, and gaming history.
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 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 Pokemon Gym Leader Who Returned in a Later Generation
On November 21, 1999, Gold and Silver arrived in Japan and quietly staged gaming’s least-advertised reunion: seven of the eight Kanto Gym Leaders from the original games turned up on screen in the sequels.... Read More →
All 23 Original PlayStation Launch Titles
On December 3, 1994, Sony launched the most technologically advanced home console yet made – a machine built to throw textured 3D polygons around at a speed nothing in a living room had managed... Read More →
All Original Game Boy Launch Titles
Nintendo shipped 300,000 Game Boys to Japanese shops in April 1989 and had sold every one of them inside a fortnight. What those buyers could actually put in the slot was a Mario platformer,... Read More →
All 37 Xbox Launch Titles Across All Three Regions
Microsoft released the Xbox at midnight on November 15, 2001, at a Toys R Us in Times Square. Bill Gates personally handed the first console to a twenty-year-old named Edward Glucksman, who had been... Read More →
All NES Launch Titles
Early on the morning of October 18, 1985, several Nintendo employees were hiding behind pillars inside FAO Schwarz on Fifth Avenue, watching their first American customer approach the cash register. The display had been... Read More →
Every Gym Leader in Pokemon Generation 9 (Paldea)
In 1996, every badge run began the same way: Brock, in a stone-floored room in Pewter City, waiting for you because the game gave you nowhere else to go. The eight Kanto gym leaders... Read More →
Every Trial Captain and Island Kahuna in Pokemon Generation 7 (Alola)
Pokemon Sun and Moon arrived in November 2016 with no Gym in them anywhere. No badges, no row of buildings each holding a puzzle and a specialist and a handshake, nothing resembling the circuit... Read More →
