Nicole Express on Throwaway Arcade Games
Now here's something fascinating I had not heard of before Nicole Express recently wrote about it. Because of a law in Japan it was (maybe still is?) illegal to sell an arcade cabinet without a game in it.

When the market for replacement cabinets opene
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Nicole Express on The Legend of Makai
What a weird game Nicole Express has dug up, an excellent example of how interconnected video gaming can be, in unexpected ways.

The Legend of Makai is a 1988 arcade game from Jaleco, developed by NMK. NMK made a variety of games around that time, but one especially notable thing they did was publish a Famicom game
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Nicole Express: Nintendo’s First Console
Long long before the Switch, Wii-U, Wii, 2DS, 3DS, Gameboy Advance, Gamecube, SNES, Super Famicom, Gameboy, NES or Famicom, there were Nintendo's Color TV Game 6 and 15.

Nintendo's second console - the Color TV Game 6, released a week earlier, was the first(Image from Nicole Express)

These were what are now called dedicated
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