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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 →
When the Game Boy went on sale in Japan on 21 April 1989, you could buy exactly four games for it. Not four hundred, not forty. Four Game Boy launch titles for the first... Read More →
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 fifteen-year-old named Edward Glucksman, who had been... Read More →
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 →
Most Pokemon games tell you exactly where to go. You beat Brock, then Misty, then you head north. The path is clear, the gyms are locked in order, and the whole thing unfolds like... Read More →
When Game Freak released Pokemon Sun and Moon in November 2016, they did something they had never done in 20 years of mainline games: they scrapped the Gym. No more badge-hunting. No more eight... Read More →
The Kalos region was built to look like France, and it carries that reputation with style. Released in October 2013, Pokemon X and Y introduced Generation 6 to the Nintendo 3DS - the first... Read More →
The Unova region is modeled after New York City and its surroundings, which explains a lot. The gym leaders here are not gentle professors or serene fishermen - they are a fashion model, a... Read More →
The Sinnoh gym leaders are the most structurally coherent group in the series. They include the only father-son gym leader pair in the franchise. They include a gym leader so bored with local competition... Read More →
The Hoenn gym leaders are the first generation designed around a region explicitly modeled on a specific real-world geography – the Kyushu and Yamaguchi prefectures of southern Japan, an area known for ocean, volcanic... Read More →
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