Game History With Jonny 8-Bit
Explore researched video game history, arcade legends, console stories, myths, records, cheats, and creator breakthroughs with Stangmedia host Jonny 8-Bit.
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Games have stories beyond the screen
Jonny 8-Bit is the face of Stangmedia’s growing editorial and video library. Explore game history now, followed by classic tips, cheats, records, creator stories, and future videos.
History categories
Gaming Origins
The experiments, laboratories, and first playable ideas that started the medium.
02 · 9 STORIESArcade Legends
The machines, designers, characters, and communities that defined the arcade.
03 · 9 STORIESConsole History
The deals, rivalries, launches, and technology that moved games into living rooms.
04 · 7 STORIESHandheld History
Portable hardware, landmark releases, and the stories players carried everywhere.
05 · 8 STORIESHidden Stories & Myths
Famous legends carefully separated into what happened, what changed, and what remains uncertain.
06 · 6 STORIESTips, Tricks & Cheats
Classic strategies, secret codes, techniques, and the culture of sharing discoveries.
07 · 7 STORIESRecords & Competitive Gaming
High scores, tournaments, speedruns, world records, and the people who pushed games further.
08 · 8 STORIESCreator & Technology Stories
The artists, engineers, constraints, and breakthroughs behind memorable games and hardware.
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Records & Competitive Gaming
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EVO Moment 37 and the Parry Heard Around the World
With one strike of health left, Daigo Umehara predicted Justin Wong’s finishing move, parried every hit, and created fighting game history.
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How StarCraft Became a Major Esport in South Korea
A strategy game met the right network infrastructure and social spaces, producing a professional culture years before global esports boomed.
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Inside the Nintendo World Championships of 1990
Nintendo turned three familiar NES games, one unforgiving timer, and a traveling consumer show into America’s biggest console competition.
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Red Annihilation: The Quake Tournament With a Ferrari Prize
An online Quake competition ended at E3 with a one-on-one final, a dominant champion, and the most famous set of car keys in esports history.
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Twin Galaxies and the First National Arcade Scoreboard
Before online leaderboards, national records traveled through telephone calls, photographs, witnesses, and mailed evidence.
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Steve Wozniak’s Secret Tetris Name Fooled Nintendo
Evets Kainzow looked like a mysterious new Tetris master. The name was really Steve Wozniak spelled backward—and even Woz briefly forgot the joke.
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The First Video Game Tournament: Spacewar! in 1972
Long before esports arenas and livestreams, a Stanford computer lab offered skilled Spacewar! players free beer, bragging rights, and a magazine subscription.
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