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Ken Horowitz

Ken Horowitz

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Mon 6th, May 2019
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  • How A Donkey Kong Clone Almost Scuppered Nintendo's Ambitions In The West

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    Feature How A Donkey Kong Clone Almost Scuppered Nintendo's Ambitions In The West

    This Kong be CRAZY

    The following feature is an excerpt from Ken Horowitz's excellent Beyond Donkey Kong: A History of Nintendo Arcade Games and has been reproduced here with the kind permission of both Horowitz and the publisher. 1981's arcade smash-hit Donkey Kong created a surge in revenue that lifted Nintendo’s prospects for its North...

    • Sun 8th Nov 2020
    • Features
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    • Donkey Kong
    • Best of 2020
  • The History Of Virtua Racing, One Of The Most Influential Coin-Ops Of All Time

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    Feature The History Of Virtua Racing, One Of The Most Influential Coin-Ops Of All Time

    Now the Switch version is with us, we look back on the arcade classic...

    Far more than any other factor, it was undoubtedly the advent of new hardware that propelled Sega’s arcade games to a whole new level. The ‘90s saw video games make the transition from sprites to polygons, a charge Sega led from a position of uncontested leadership despite...

    • Mon 6th May 2019
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    • Virtua Racing
    • Nintendo Switch

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  • Square Enix Teases More For Dragon Quest, NieR and Final Fantasy In 2026

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  • Stardew Valley - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition Is Now Available, Will You Be Getting It?

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