Ah, August 13. At least it’s not a Friday the 13^th, the day of OK movies and horrible games, historically. Looking at this week’s neat vidya game stories from around the web:

– Polygon is doing the lord’s work by ranking all 30 games in the Rare Replay classic remake for the Xbox One. You can read it here, but as a warning, it’s an intense load in terms of video and flash for some older machines. The piece is by Philip Kollar.

– In Vancouver, a dude has souped up his Hyundai with a Sega Genesis theme, according to an article in the Parksville Qualicum Beach News.

– From Cinema Blend, an article by William Usher on the weird and terrifying Sonic games.

– The latest Kids React video is on the Nintendo 64’s Pokemon Snap. It’s like Kids Say The Darnedest Things, without roofie pudding pops!

– Cameron Faulkner of Tech Radar points out that a line can be drawn from the development of the Dreamcast to the eventual integration of Windows 10 into the Xbox.

– Ever wondered about the video game industry in Ireland? News Talk has you covered.

– The movie version of DuckTales, The Treasure of the Lost Lamp, turned 25 in August.

– From Kotaku, the secret NES and SNES games on Seinfeld’s bookshelf.

ON THIS DAY IN VIDEO GAME HISTORY…

– Xena: Warrior Princess came out for the Game Boy Color in 2001, as did World Series Baseball 2K2 for the Dreamcast. As you can imagine, August is still slim pickings for decent video game releases. The next year, NCAA College Football 2K3 came out.

– In 2003, EA Montreal was announced. It formally opened in March 2004. They’ve mostly produced accessory and spin-off games for EA, excluding NHL 07 and Army of Two.

Video game history information comes from GameFAQs and Moby Games. And as always, if you’d like to support the show, do so via our Amazon link.