Video Game Canon / John

Ranking the Top 1000 Video Games using 76 “Best Games” lists from 1995-2023 and writing about gaming’s fascinating history.

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NEW PATREON POST - The Etymology of Boomer Shooter

Available seven days early for patrons, I tried to track down who decided that “Boomer Shooter” was a genre. It was harder than you’d think.

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@AVGRankings Yup. The first 16 games are in the top 40.

There’s nothing wrong with their list. I’m just shocked how unoriginal it is.

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A quick recap and a few thoughts about Rolling Stone’s “The 50 Best Video Games of All Time”

https://t.co/v0SXJAi74B

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ICYMI The editors of Shacknews have announced the Class of 2024 for the Shacknews Hall of Fame. Tony Hawk! Super Smash! Final Fantasy 8! And many, many more!

https://t.co/V4Aq0fkYN6

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NEW PATREON POST - I Need a Little More Time for the Next Update to the Video Game Canon (Version 8.0)

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Astro Bot is “Game of the Year” at the 2024 Game Awards

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The 2024 Game Awards are tonight! My money's on Balatro! Yes, that was a gambling pun, I don't regret it.

But first, let's take a look back at the nominees and winners from the first Game Awards from 2014.

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ICYMI https://t.co/jqMnSPGe9W has launched the GOG Preservation Program to help keep classic PC games available on modern systems

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Wrote a little bit about “The @Eurogamer 100”, which is a great collection of recent-ish games to play right now.

https://t.co/GejcezTz9S

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@scriptz4sale There have to be a few more dentists who want to be film producers, right?

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For the last few years I've been (very slowly) putting together a growing collection of articles about video game history at the Video Game Research Library.

I thought other people might find these articles interesting, so here you go...

https://t.co/Ydv8ZSGjqe

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@dandock Congratulations! I know you’ve been hinting at this for a while, but it’s great that it’s finally official.

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Reminder: Public libraries exist.

(And most of them offer video games too!)

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I love the stories of people waiting for hours to get into the traveling Criterion Closet. Somebody, please, reopen some brick & mortar video stores.

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Nintendo removed Yoshi’s Island from the Mario timeline on their official website several years ago. This isn’t really a new revelation.

https://t.co/hBzhLeag7L

[Dan Ryckert @DanRyckert]

I'm now the source for confirming Yoshi's Island is NOT a mainline Mario game (what I saw at the Nintendo Museum) as well as the source for confirming it IS a mainline Mario game (Miyamoto's answer to my question in 2012).

I'm choosing to believe Miyamoto.

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@Marc_Normandin Tiebreakers are for cowards (which is why Rob Manfred prefers them).

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CONFIRMED: Microsoft doesn’t own a calendar.

(For “Console War” purposes, consider this a joke about the Super NES as the real arbiter of where the X button goes and/or the Xbox’s 2024 release calendar)

[XBOX @XBOX]

ICYMI: This is where the X button goes

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Do not tell lies on the Internet.

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Tomorrow #batman will become the first superhero with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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@Andy_VGC Have you ever been to the Strong Museum of Play? All the pictures and videos I’ve seen of the Nintendo Museum (especially the interactive areas) are very reminiscent of The Strong.

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@XF_lostepisodes @Darren_Mooney Which is insane because all the crime family stuff from Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Batman would have fit right in on The Animated Series.

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If you’re a Jeopardy! fan you have to read this…

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