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Maze Chase Adventure ‘Jester’ Drops On NES & SNES

Team GAMBIT May 28, 2024

Mega Cat Studios, with developer CollectorVision Games, invites gamers on a retro journey with the release of JESTER, a mesmerizing maze chase adventure game coming to NES and SNES platforms available today. Experience the...

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13-Year-Old Boy Believed To Be First To “Beat” NES Tetris

B. Simmons January 4, 2024

He is the man who arranges the blocks. It’s pretty likely that everyone (or at least, most of us) has played Tetris at some point or another. And of the many, many versions of...

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South Carolina Man Allegedly Robs Convenience Store With Spray-Painted NES Zapper

B. Simmons June 5, 2023

The Florida Man is spreading. Ahh, who doesn’t have memories of trying to shoot the dog in Duck Hunt? I only ask, because the NES Zapper, a necessary peripheral to play Duck Hunt and...

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NES Cart Allows Online Play Via Built-In WiFi

B. Simmons April 27, 2023

Surprisingly the easiest way to make that sort of thing work. If you thought it couldn’t be done, well, you were wrong. Technically, you’ve always been wrong, since the Famicom was capable of limited...

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Turns Out The NES Can Do Color FMV; Something Nerdy Studios Shows Off

B. Simmons February 13, 2022

Space, the final frontier… It’s the way of things that, as time goes on, the sorts of people that love to push the boundaries of what’s possible on a system will make breakthroughs. And...

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Masayuki Uemura, Architect of the NES And SNES, Has Passed Away At Age 78

B. Simmons December 9, 2021

He had a spectacular career. We’ve lost a real one. Masayuki Uemura was responsible for much of the work that went into creating both the Famicom/NES and Super Famicom/SNES. And on the 9th, news...

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Fan Made Street Fighter II For NES Looks Amazing

B. Simmons October 8, 2021

But for Bison, it was Tuesday. It’s hard to overstate the impact Street Fighter II and its subsequent editions had on the gaming landscape. It went from arcades, to practically every home console (seriously,...

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Switch Online Gets Special Version Of The Legend Of Zelda

B. Simmons October 11, 2018

GRUMBLE, GRUMBLE… Those of you that have played the original The Legend of Zelda know that it isn’t exactly the easiest game. Plenty of stuff is hidden away, often in unusual ways. But maybe...

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Nintendo Switch Online Hacked For More NES Games

B. Simmons September 20, 2018

Oh, what a surprise. It seems that hackers have already found a way to hack and add games to the Nintendo Switch Online NES library. And it’s apparently easy enough to do that, aside...

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Nintendo Switch Online is here and it sure is a thing

J. Luis September 19, 2018

Nintendo Switch Online has finally launched and it feels, well, pretty light. The main thing of interest for most people will be the retro games that are offered but those, again, are pretty slim...

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Switch Online: NES Games Can Be Played Offline For Up To 7 Days

B. Simmons September 18, 2018

That’s… actually pretty good. While people keep melting down over Nintendo’s $20 online service, some good news is coming at least. For one, the NES games that come with subscription will actually not require...

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Holy Diver resurrected with new Collector’s Edition cartridge

J. Luis August 2, 2018

Three decades is a long wait, but finally IREM’s cult classic Holy Diver is heading West. Later this month you’ll be able to get your hands on the game in a limited edition collector’s...