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Never-before-seen deleted scenes, developer interviews, trivia, and more from all your favorite games!
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Mr. Gimmick (AKA Gimmick!), Sunsoft's last 8-bit title, is a little-known cult-classic for the Famicom and NES that only saw release in Japan and Scandanavia. Though it didn't sell well, it's still praised by game fans for its eye-popping graphics, grievous difficulty, and high-quality music.

In this interview, a prequel to The Making of Mr. Gimmick, composer Masashi Kageyama looks back at his time working on the game. His answers touch on the following subjects:

• What the Mr. Gimmick soundtrack means to him • The variety of unusual musical influences present in the game's BGM • His struggles composing within the hardware limitations of the Famicom • His current activities, 20 years after the game's release

Read the full interview here!

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You may be a Nintendo fan, but I bet you didn't know about the Famicom Modem released in 1987. This accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System allowed Japanese users to connect their NES to the telephone lines and:

• Look up stock prices
• Bet on horse races
• Play network games
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You may be a Nintendo fan, but are you familiar with the following piece of Nintendo's history? In the newly translated article, The Short-Lived Famicom Disk System, we discuss:

• Why Nintendo, for a short time, offered its games on floppy disks
• Why the company reverted to cartridges for later systems like the SNES
• Nintendo's early DRM

Follow GlitterBerri's Tumblr for more great retro gaming trivia! 

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In December of 2011, Nintendo released an official Zelda artbook called Hyrule Historia! In addition to revealing the official timeline for the Zelda games, the book also contains never-before-released concept art!

Take a look at these newly-translated concept art pages from Adventure of Link, Link's Awakening, and A Link to the Past!:

Or click here to check out the entire book!

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Hyrule Historia: LoZ Concept Art Pages

In December of 2011, Nintendo released an official Zelda artbook called Hyrule Historia! In addition to revealing the official timeline for the Zelda games, the book also contains never-before-released concept art!

Check out concept art from the original Legend of Zelda:

Or click here to check out the entire book!

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