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A photo shows The Addams Family alongside Monster Bash and Scared Stiff in a row of pinball games.
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How licensing changed the pinball industry

An Inscryption screenshot shows five statues facing the player in a dark room.
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Breaking down the influences behind Inscryption's music

Official Wind Waker HD artwork shows Link conducting music with a wand while standing alongside a group of friends on a globe.
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The Wind Waker 'obsession' that influenced Spore

An old Maxis logo shows the company name in blue text with a partial circle around the middle letters.
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Why the Spore team didn't move to EA's campus

A piece of official Prop Cycle artwork shows an anime-styled character riding a plane through the clouds.
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How Namco built 1996's best arcade cabinet

A development render shows Final Fight Revenge character Guy looking into the camera while standing in the middle of a meat locker.
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Final Fight Revenge: An oral history, 26 years later

A CG render shows Lobo kicking through a stone wall, with flames roaring behind him.
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The '90s Lobo fighting game got censored because of... Tupac?

A photograph shows part of an official Capcom's World comic with Street Fighter's Ryu fighting Art of Fighting's Ryo.
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When Capcom called out SNK in a fan club comic

Official artwork from Mirror's Edge Catalyst shows protagonist Faith touching a broken mirror.
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The lost Mirror's Edge sequel

Official Mirror's Edge artwork shows main character Faith punching an armed enemy.
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How a love of techno music shaped Mirror's Edge

An in-development screenshot from Sayonara Wild Hearts shows the player riding a motorcycle at night.
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How Simogo built Sayonara Wild Hearts' best stage

A photo shows a Sound Fantasy Super Famicom cartridge, manual, and box on a blue background.
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Toshio Iwai's journey from Sound Fantasy to Electroplankton

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