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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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
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 →
Every Species and Scientific Name Taken From Pokemon
From a lightning-fast eye protein to extinct pterosaurs, scientists have officially named real species after Pokemon characters. Here are all the confirmed cases. Read More →
