We're not quite sure what kind of high-def party went down overseas this past week, but boy, was it a big one.

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The NES, SNES, N64, Game Boy and DS were all big sellers in one way or another, so why would a product come along to give them so much trouble?

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One of the riflemen in my platoon, a big muscular farm boy from South Dakota, had seen, strewn on the Tarawa beachhead, a string of guts twelve feet long belonging to the marine who, only seconds before the mortar blast, had been his best buddy.

NEWYORKER: Rat Beach