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1UP's Bob Mackey and Marty Sliva take you through a PC classic in this keyboard warrior edition of Retronauts Lunch Break.

1UP's Bob Mackey and Thierry Nguyen try to keep their sanity as they journey through Maniac Mansion.

Back in the late 60s, German-born gadgeteer Ralph Baer began inventing what later became known as video games. Over the ensuing decades he would develop Pong, the rifle you could point at the screen that was the precursor to the Duck Hunt shotgun, and the germ of countless other important concepts that the gaming industry is founded on.

In case you missed today's LIVE Destructoid Show, Tara's got beef with tiny hamburgers, and has a handful of details about Resident Evil 6 and Resident Evil Revelations, while Max talks Darksiders II and Nobunaga's Ambition + Pokemon.

Ray and Nurulla Latypov are two physics engineers brothers who came up with a virtual reality device, which they claim is going to change the way we play video games.

Video game mascots used to be all the rage from the late 80's to the late 90's. Similar to the Hollywood "star system" of the 1940’s, back in the day, there was a tremendous drive to create and push mascots by game companies. This video tries to answer what stopped this.