Nintendo

NINTENDO

Pictured: The 1980s.

In the 1980s, shopping malls across America hosted everything from video game demonstrations to fans screaming for Patrick Duffy.

Jake Rossen








iStock.com/BrendanHunter

While he started off as a protective sidekick for Mario and Luigi, Nintendo's cuddly dino soon became a franchise star on his own.

Javier Reyes








James Joel, Flickr // CC BY-ND 2.0

The NES Classic helped take the veil off a subculture of retro gamers who make their own classics, buy clone consoles, and know when a vintage side-scroller has the wrong frame rate.

Jake Rossen






Chris Gentile

On the surface, it seemed like an impossible task. Take an $8800, NASA-approved interface glove running on $250,000 worth of computer hardware, then replicate the performance in a consumer-grade toy with parts costing less than $26.

Jake Rossen