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Tetris'D = Tetris + Platformer With A Cool Theme Music Remix

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Digg shares a Flash game titled "Tetris'D: The Game" -- "... Avoid the deadly tetrominoes and stay alive as long as you possibly can. The game goes on for as long as you can stay alive. The goal is to get the highest score possible..."

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Mythbusters: The Truth Behind 10 Great Videogame Myths

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Digg shares a two pages Crispy Gamer article on ten truths behind ten great videogame myths -- "We look at some of the most enduring myths surrounding games and the industry to see if there's any truth to these legends..."

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10 Fan-Made Trailers (Embedded YouTube Videos) to Video Game Movies

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Digg shares an Unreality article on ten fan-made trailers, with their embedded YouTube videos to video game movies

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As a current video and/or computer gamer, how old are you?

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The evolution of Japanese's Television/TV/Telly game spots/commercials/advertisements (ads.).

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Digg shares a four pages GameRadar article, with embedded short YouTube videos, on "the evolution of Japanese game commercials. 30 years of daft, brilliant and disturbingly odd television/TV/telly skits. Japan has a well-earned reputation for daft, brilliant and disturbingly odd TV game commercials, but it took a long (sometimes painful) evolution along a course signposted by geeky TV celebs in bad jumpers during the 1980s and PlayStation-sophistication in the 1990s, for that rep to be won and maintained.

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Stumbling Towards Greatness: A Batman Retrospective

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Digg shares a 27 pictorial Web pages Joystiq article on the history of Batman video games: "Batman has had a long and (mostly) horrendous career as a video game crime fighter. While his big screen adventures have evolved into masterpieces, most of Batman's video game outings have made players want to poke out their eyes with a Batarang. To celebrate the arrival of Batman's latest and (we assure you) greatest adventure – Batman: Arkham Asylum – Joystiq looks back at the rest of the Caped Crusader's games.

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Did you know pinballs used to be illegal back in the old days before reading the article?

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11 Things You Didn't Know About Pinball History

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Neatorama shares a two pages PopularMechanics article on the eleven (11) things one probably didn't know about pinball history -- "Today, pinball may seem like a harmless, all-American pastime. But the game's history--from its rebellious roots to its nerdy present--is more bizarre than most people would imagine..."

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Have you ever watched someone playing the whole computer/video game(s)?

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Robot Chicken's Space Invaders and Mr. & Mrs. Brady (Bunch) Funny Spoofs/Parodies/Skits

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Robot Chicken has two funny skits/parodies/spoofs titled "Mr. & Mrs. Brady" (two minutes) and "Alien Front Line" (based on Space Invaders video game; one minute and three seconds).

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The 40 Most Repeated Game Quotes

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This five pages GamesRadar article on the 40 most repeated game quotes -- "Film and television quotes are so entangled with our language that their origins are irrelevant to most speakers. We use Seinfeld-popularized neologisms and phrases constantly without considering how they became popular ('shrinkage,' 'close-talker,' 'not that there's anything wrong with that'). But games are a younger medium, and for a time were thought to be the realm of only children and socially-inept geeks. HA HA HA. NUH-UH! Hardcore gaming culture is wriggling its way into the mainstream as you read this (it had to make a brief stop at Hipster Town on its way, but it'll get there).

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BoxAliens -- A Flash Game Like Missile Command

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Blue's News share a Flash game titled "BoxAliens that is like old Missile Command game -- "Draw boxes of the same or larger size than the black box aliens coming down. Knock them back up."

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Train Factor: Chronicling the mis/uses of trains in games.

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Offworld shares "Trains In Games" is a Web site that takes a closer look at details in video and computer games that developers missed.

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Video clips showing 8-bit arcade classics are back, in LEGO form!

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Boing Boing and Offworld share two YouTube videos of video games in LEGO form

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Living With First-Person Shooter (FPS) Disease

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VideoSift shares a funny two minutes YouTube video showing a parody/spoof of a 34 years old man living with first-person shooter (FPS) disease

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Vector Effect -- A Flash Space Shoot 'Em Up Game

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Blue's News share a Flash shoot 'em up space game titled "Vector Effect".

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Pwong -- A Flash Game Based on Pong and Arkanoid.

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UserFriendly's link of the day is on a Flash game titled "Pwong" -- "Pong supercharged - dozens of balls - upgrades - crazy effects."

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Ghostbusters Video Games: Then and Now [Slideshow]

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Digg shares a fifteen (15 [1 is nonsense]) page slideshow on Ghostbusters video games: "Who Ya Gonna Call? The Ghostbusters have always taken us on a rollercoaster ride.

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