October 2010
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This American Life: Ep. 319 - And the Call Was... →
For Halloween, scary stories that are all true. Kidnappings, zombie raccoons, haunted houses—real haunted houses!—and things that go “EEEEK!!!” in the night.
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Happy 25th Birthday, Nintendo →
Twenty-five years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the US.
While a widespread release of the console wouldn’t take place until 1986 (the same year it was released in Europe), it was in late 1985 at the FAO Schwarz in Manhattan, New York (as part of an advance market test) that the first of millions of the machines would pass over the counter of an American...
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