All Original Game Boy Launch Titles
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 →
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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
The first time you heard that siren, you knew something was happening. The screen goes dark, a silhouette appears, and four words flash across the display: “A Challenger Approaches!” Unlocking secret characters has been... Read More →
Every Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros Ultimate
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate lives up to its name in every way - including the sheer number of characters who appear through the Assist Trophy item. First introduced in Brawl with 27 characters, the... Read More →
Every Smash Bros Fighter Reveal That Was Leaked Before the Official Announcement
Despite Nintendo's legendary secrecy, Super Smash Bros. has one of the most dramatic leak histories in all of gaming. From anonymous forum posts dismissed as trolling to voice actors accidentally spilling the beans in... Read More →
Every Character Sakurai Publicly Considered But Rejected for Smash
Super Smash Bros. is defined as much by who didn't make it in as who did. For every fighter on the roster, Masahiro Sakurai has spent decades in interviews, Famitsu columns, and Nintendo Direct... Read More →
Every Paid DLC Fighter Ever Added to Super Smash Bros
Super Smash Bros. changed forever on October 23rd, 2014, when Nintendo announced during the "50-Fact Extravaganza" that Mewtwo would be returning as paid downloadable content for Smash 4. It was the first time in... Read More →
Every Third-Party Character Ever Added to Super Smash Bros
Super Smash Bros. has always been Nintendo's all-star celebration - a roster packed with Mario, Link, Samus, and dozens of other characters from the company's own history. But starting with Brawl in 2008, Masahiro... Read More →
All Pokemon Designs Cut Before Red and Blue Release
When Pokemon Red and Green launched in Japan on February 27, 1996, players had no idea how many creatures almost made it into the game. Years of development, hundreds of designs, and countless revisions... Read More →
All Fossil Pokemon and the Real Prehistoric Creatures They're Based On
Long before Pokemon trainers roamed the world, real creatures inspired by fossils walked, swam, and flew across our planet. The Pokemon franchise has always paid homage to paleontology, creating Pokemon that can be resurrected... Read More →
