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When Nintendo Took Blockbuster to Court The Battle Over Rentals In the late 1980s Nintendo ruled the living room. The NES was in millions of homes, and kids flocked to local rental shops like Blockbuster to grab the latest cartridges for a weekend of gaming. But while game rentals exploded in popularity, Nintendo was far less enthusiastic. They worried that renting would cut into cartridge sales, since players could beat …

A Colorful Beginning Long before the blue suited hero cemented his place in gaming history, Capcom’s designers toyed with a name that could have changed everything, Rainbow Man. It was not some throwaway title scribbled in a notebook. The choice reflected what made the character unique. Each time he defeated a Robot Master he absorbed their power and his armor blazed with a new color. According to the character’s development …