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When Nintendo launched its third home console, the Nintendo 64, in 1996, it changed the way we looked at console gaming forever. With its use of true 3D animation, the console reimagined Nintendo’s classic properties in visually stunning and increasingly immersive ways. The rest of the industry followed suit, with the mid to late ’90s…

Picture Charlton Heston screaming at the destruction of the world at the base of the Statue of Liberty in Planet of the Apes. They incorporated Miracleman into the Marvel Universe. Kind of. It’s not Mike Moran. That might have been considered a bridge too far. Or they might be saving that story for future issues…

Classic game memories often begin before a title reaches its opening screen. The console’s shape, the controller in hand, and the familiar routine of inserting physical media into the systemall shape the experience. Those details explain why preservation can mean different things to different players.

Strike up the band and fire up the kitchens, because The Princess and the Frog is getting a new Disney+ special, and it’s bringing back original cast members, so it won’t just be some cheap cash-in. It’s about time, honestly: the movie came out 17 years ago, and Disney parks just massively rebranded centerpiece attraction…

Akira and Ghost In The Shell can keep cyberpunk. Those more interested in the Gothic, gory romance of Bram Stoker have their own definitive anime classic: Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s impossibly picturesque upgrade of Toyoo Ashida’s more classically cartoony 1985 take on the material first screened in American theaters in 2001, where it…