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The A-Z of Gaming T-Shirt

Andrew5 | 5 days 12 hours ago | News | PC Playstation 2 
Kotaku have gone through the A-Z of gaming from the winner of the Shirt.woot.com t-shirt contest. Some of them could be a little better, like Excite Bike, and Galaga, which I've never heard of. But most of them are pretty good.
And to wrap things up today, here's "The ABCs of Gaming," from a t-shirt design contest at Shirt.woot.com. The contest closed this week. The latest on the site shows another shirt claiming 2nd place in this derby so, who knows, maybe it won. I'm sure the ordering information will follow.

For now, take a long look and see if you can name all 26. I can name about 19 offhand. There's a spoiler solution after the jump.
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    X_MANBEARPIG_X | 5 days 12 hours ago | reply
    'I' should have Ico, would've been a lot better.
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    tidus04 | 5 days 12 hours ago | reply
    F is for Final Fantasy, Screw Frogger!
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      Final Blade | 5 days 2 hours ago | reply
      Nah F is for Fatal Frame

      Anyway Why the hell is God of War not on there?
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    Andrew5 | 5 days 12 hours ago | reply
    Click the link to see the list.
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    twilightprince | 5 days 11 hours ago | reply
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    L: Luigi - Err what? Not a game, but a character....
    Luigi has his own game. It's called Luigi's Mansion.
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      tallteen86 | 5 days 10 hours ago | reply
      That is true, but it is hardly a super well known game, and all that popular either >_>
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    Andrew5 | 5 days 11 hours ago | reply
    I've never even heard of Excite Bike, and Virtua Fighter.
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      Xenctuary | 5 days 10 hours ago | reply
      All of the titles on the list are classic, breakthrough games.
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      Moonrise | 4 days 6 hours ago | reply
      What were you not born until 2001 or something? Excite Bike and Galaga were great games during their time, and Virtua Fighter has been around as long as Tekken (or longer? I'm not really sure).
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    The_Don | 5 days 11 hours ago | reply
    Sweet. I need to get one of those. What every hardcore, classic gamers should have IMO.
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    tallteen86 | 5 days 10 hours ago | reply
    A: Asteroids - Pretty Good, classic and well known.
    B: Bomberman - Ditto
    C: Contra - Ditto Ditto
    D: Donkey Kong - Ditto Ditto Ditto
    E: Excite Bike - Nothing better? Well, it is classic, isn't it?
    F: Frogger - Classic again....FF would have been hard to work (but Double Fs)
    G: Galaga - Isn't that also something of a classic? GTA Would have worked too...
    H: Halo - Meh, it has a huge fan-following...
    I: Indiana Jones (kinda cheating, but OK) - Cheating because that isn't officially part of his name (his name is 'Dr. Jones')...Well, there isn't anything better under 'I'?
    J: Joust - Again, classic....Not a lot of 'J' games...Well known ones anyhow...
    K: Katamari - Popular, and it works with "K", so yeah....
    L: Luigi - Err what? Not a game, but a character....
    M: Megaman - Sweet
    N: Ninja Gaiden - Good choice.
    O: Oregon Trail - Nothing better? I do believe I liked this game though.
    P: Pitfall - What'll they put? A character and a big round 'hole' desig?
    Q: Quake - OK. Not a lot of 'Q' games anyhow...Q-bert maybe.
    R: Rayman - Alright. I feel like there could have been a better choice?
    S: Super Mario - Alright, not surprising.
    T: Tetris - Classic (a bit tired, but it's spiritual replacements are popular, like Lumines)
    U: Ultima - OK
    V: Virtua fighter - OK
    W: Warcraft - Biggest name Online MMORPG, yes?
    X: X-Men (also a little cheaty) - Somewhat.
    Y: Yoshi - OK...Not a lot of famous "Y" games or characters...
    Z: Zelda - Zelda...Princess....Not bad I suppose. Games are well known.

    List seems to mix up titles and characters....Like "Super Mario" instead of "Mario". "Luigi" instead of "Super Mario"....

    NOTE: Comment got removed somehow, but here it is again
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    Andrew5 | 5 days 9 hours ago | reply
    Maybe it got removed because you're supposed to try to guess? It got taken out of my news post as well.
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    Nath | 5 days 9 hours ago | reply
    Heard of everything on this list, Galaga is a pretty famous arcade game. Though Excite Bike isn't too well known, it was fun for a sports game.

    For a second I had a splinter of hope that Half-Life may be H, but once again, my hopes were miserably crushed.
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    tekmosis | 5 days 3 hours ago | reply
    Those who don't know games like Galaga or Excite Bike are most likely younger gamers who didn't grow up with Comodor, NES, etc. Technically that Kotaku article is a bunch of uninformed BS. Woot is the best place to find awesome deals.

    They have "contests" which they call a derby for T-Shirt designs where you have a single theme. That theme was the ABC's. It just so happened that they themed the design around video games. The current day the shirt will go for $10 + $5 shipping. Any other day the shirt will sell for $15 + $5 shipping.
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    StarJet | 4 days 18 hours ago | reply
    I loved Excite Bike when I was a kid. (Road Fighter was better, though. )
    These days, people will be like "Eeeewwwww" about side scrolling facing games.
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    Final Blade | 3 days 20 hours ago | reply
    Why isn't Road Rash on here?
    It was a kickass game back in the day...I miss RR..

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