The first model of the NES wasn’t all that great; just ask any one of the millions of six-year-olds who independently discovered blowing on a cartridge made it work. The second NES hardware ...

it used the top-down 2D style that originated with the first Zelda game on NES. In the near 40 year history of the series, ...

I’m glad that Square Enix preserved the intense difficulty that defined the original NES RPG, whose eccentricities have been ...

The Super NES is arguably the best known console of ... Compact and mini versions followed later, but there were also a few lesser-known models released during the SNES’s heyday in the early ...

The Mighty Bowser overtook the NES as the Lego Mario set with the most pieces when it launched two years ago. With the display stand included, the 2,807-piece interactive model is 12.5 inches tall ...

Movies and TV shows get rebooted all the time. Video games are no different. While a video game series will sit dormant for a while, that doesn’t mean it’s done. We’ve seen games rebooted in ...

It’s essentially a merger of various forks — when developers take the source code of one piece of software and use it to develop something else — of FCE Ultra, a previous NES emulator ... to emulating ...

The company already has a strong track record of bringing back older consoles in style, having released their modern interpretations of the Gameboy, NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis. The Analogue 3D is ...

The Nintendo Entertainment System — the NES — released all the way back in 1983, in Japan. It didn’t come west and to the United States until 1985 though. This means, next year the console ...

It has excellent 3D hall sticks and clicky buttons ... For roughly $100, you can enjoy games from the NES, SNES, N64, or even PSP eras for upwards of five hours on a single charge.

Nintendo’s upcoming Switch Online service will include a selection of NES games. Reopened as an independent entity ... what they’re doing from a technical standpoint is fascinating, and a model worth ...