Atari took the success of PONG and made the first real mass-market home video gaming console in nationwide use. Namco and North American licensor Midway rode Pac-Man to a bonanza in the 1980s. But Taito, despite owning one of the keystone games of the early arcade days, didn't come anywhere near dominance in its…

You can't talk about Street Fighter and wrestling in the same sentence without namechecking Kenny Omega.

Eurogamer is becoming a bit of a joke. Yes, the queues were absolutely huge this year.

WB really need to stop trying to take this trailer down. Don't they understand how the Internet works?

Yeah, he's totally Ice Cube.

Team Beard for the win.

You could fit the entire Sierra and Lucasarts 3.5 inch catalogue on a CD, let alone a Bluray.

I still stand by the fact that the CU was the best thing to happen to SWG, but SOE didn't give it a good enough chance. Pre-CU was a freaking joke where anyone with a gaffi stick stacking every box with a dodge stat in it, and wearing 90% composite was a freaking immortal.

No, it's not, but this is more about the user experience, and ease of use in a TV environment.

I wouldn't be surprised if one of the Steam Machine protos is precisely that.

I remember playing GTA 1 one back in 1997. It never did me any harm.

Raph ain't Brooklyn enough.

Agreed 1000% If you are going to remake a game using contemporary graphics, you HAVE to make it play right. There's a reason why these games became classics in the first place, and that reason almost always was how they played.

I for one am glad they shitcanned this proposal.

I love me some Shin-Shoryuken

Have I fallen foul of some injoke that I'm not privy to?

Anybody who's ever played Paperboy knows it isn't Paperboy without a certain... Something...

People pretending to be other people has been popular for a long long time.

Platinum were originally the members of Capcom's Clover Studio, that was shut down due to their games never being "popular" enough.

In addition to this, Nintendo now have a reputation of changing the form factor of their consoles, changing barely anything inside, and appending a word or a letter after, as they did with the DS/DS Lite/DSi