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 →
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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 Secret Character Unlock Method in Super Smash Bros History
In 1999, the official Super Smash Bros. website ran a technique column – 77 numbered entries, written by Masahiro Sakurai himself – and technique 20 addressed the players who kept losing to the game’s... Read More →
Every Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros Ultimate
The item drops, somebody grabs it, and the match stops being fair. An Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate can produce a Castlevania swordsman, a falling moon, a vintage Pong console, or a... Read More →
Every Smash Bros Fighter Reveal That Was Leaked Before the Official Announcement
The Smash Bros. DOJO ran on weekdays from May 22, 2007 to April 14, 2008, and Masahiro Sakurai wrote all of it himself, in Japanese, for a localisation team to push out in seven... Read More →
Every Character Sakurai Publicly Considered But Rejected for Smash
Most game directors bury their rejected ideas in design documents nobody will ever read. Masahiro Sakurai publishes his. For more than two decades he has told the public, in his own words, which characters... Read More →
Every Paid DLC Fighter Ever Added to Super Smash Bros
Masahiro Sakurai spent most of the 50-Fact Extravaganza on October 23, 2014 explaining mechanics, then closed it with a resurrection: Mewtwo would return to Super Smash Bros., and for the first time in the... Read More →
Every Third-Party Character Ever Added to Super Smash Bros
Shigeru Miyamoto closed an after-hours Nintendo event on May 10, 2006 with a trailer for a Wii game called Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and at the end of it stood Solid Snake – Konami’s... Read More →
All 37 Cut Pokemon Designs From Red and Green
The Pewter Museum of Science keeps two skeletons behind glass, and in the code both of them are Pokemon. The Kabutops fossil and the Aerodactyl fossil hold index slots 182 and 183, one along... Read More →
All 25 Fossil Pokemon and the Real Prehistoric Creatures They're Based On
On 22 May 2026 the Field Museum in Chicago opened a hall where part of a juvenile Nyctosaurus, a flying reptile about 85 million years old, stands beside a model of Aerodactyl. It is... Read More →
