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Since the eighties, most Transformersfans have been quick to dismiss Tonka’s Go-Bots as a simple Transformers knock-off. But the real story is much more complicated, with the Go-Bots actually reaching American store shelves a full year before Transformers. In the late seventies, companies like Mego and Mattel had established precedent for importing Japanese toys with…

Every few years, someone publishes a “definitive” ranking of The Legend of Zelda, and every few years, that list reveals more about gaming nostalgia than it does about design. The series created by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka in 1986, stewarded by producer Eiji Aonuma since the late 1990s, and scored by the legendary Koji…

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