Beginning with Balloon Fight this week, Nintendo is releasing NES and SNES console classics over a new Virtual Console for the Wii U. Eurogamer noticed that the NES version of Balloon Fight in the EU runs slower—50 Hz com...
Literally, that is. This thing actually works, but if your arms are more T-rex than Mr. Fantastic, you might find it a tad challenging. Creator Baron von Brunk has posted a nearly four-minute video of him playing using the cont...
Yeah, I know. Skrillex game channels The Legend of Zelda. Seems like it might be bad, or at least, haphazard. But as it turns out, Skrillex Quest, a new browser game, is really pretty cool. It comes as something less of a surpr...
I don’t remember much about the golden age of arcades, but I am utterly obsessed with games from that era. It’s not nostalgia; my earliest gaming memories begin with the NES generation. It wasn’t until I began...
BrentalFloss and Pat the NES Punk teaming up to do a old-school Nintendo-themed cover of “Bohemian Rhapsody”? I wasn’t expecting to wake up to that this morning. Although admittedly staring into the eyes of th...
You know, once was a time Nintendo were serious about releasing miniature versions of their consoles. The NES got one (the NES-101), the SNES got one (the SNES 2), but ever since, Nintendo’s been all “eh, the origin...
Millions of people grew up worldwide convinced the way to get a busted Nintendo cartridge working was to blow on it. It may have worked sometimes, temporarily, but experts say you were actually doing a lot more harm than good. ...
It may have looked like something out of a more safety-conscious Star Trek episode, but Nintendo’s Zapper was about as harmless as fake plastic guns can get. Oh, except for this one. Which North Street Labs has turned int...
“Pure” can have a lot of interpretations. For artist Andrew Miller and his “Brand Spirit” series of photographed objects, it means removing all traces of brand and color. And the results are quite pretty...