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Game music can show up in the most random places. Rarely, however, does it involve rock bands in bad wigs. More »
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The original Game Boy was big enough to fit in an enormous pocket. This Game Boy is big enough—make that, small enough—to clean your teeth. More »
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It's just two minutes and twenty-two seconds of black and white video. In it we see a play-through of classic 80s Game Boy title Super Mario Land. Pretty bland stuff, until you hear how it was created. More »
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Before the 3DS launched, Nintendo promised that it'd be rolling out a catalog of Game Boy classics for their new handheld. While that roll-out hasn't been as fast as some fans has wanted, a genuine classic's hitting the system this Thursday. Metroid II: Return of Samus sends the iconic bounty hunter to the home planet of the powerful alien race to exterminate them all. Fans of the franchise knows that the game sets up the even more beloved Super Metroid; you'll be able to download it from the eShop in 48 hours or so. More »
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Club Nintendo goodies, rewards offered by the company for serious and long-serving fans, aren't usually that great (outside Japan, at least). But these Nintendo handheld cards, celebrating 31 years of portable goodness, they're great. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5845330&view=rss&microfeed=true GoNintendo dug up a current Australian rating for Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, pointing to it as an upcoming release for the Game Boy Virtual Console on the Nintendo 3DS. Remember, early adopters "ambassadors," you get 10 VC titles for free in addition to the 10 free NES classics you downloaded at the beginning of the month. More »
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The merry band behind the Bomberman mod for Minecraft have struck again, creating a colossal in-game stop-motion animation of Tetris—complete with a Game Boy surround (and startup screen!). More »
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Super Smash Land, the PC 'demake' of the beloved Super Smash Bros. series is here in full, free of charge and looking faithfully Game Boy-esque. More »
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Jamming 30 years worth of Mario tunes and visuals into an epic 18-minute-long video remix, the creators of "Super Mario Ceremony The 30th Anniversary Medley" doing an impressive job of honoring Nintendo's famous mascot. More »
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I'll kill the fun right now by saying this is a 'shop. Can you name at least one reason why it's fake? I'm sure you will. Or, just enjoy some good ole crude junior-high humor as conceived (snicker) on the Game Boy. More »
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It's one of the defining works of modern popular culture, and features plenty of stylised, graphic action. So why is it nobody has ever made a good game out of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira? More »
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Honey, if I bought this for you, would you wear it for me? This Game Boy-themed tube dress costs about as much as the original device did—$70. It's made by HereandThereVintage and available on etsy. More »
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Until now, the Nintendo 3DS's eShop has only offered Game Boy and Game Boy Color games. Soon, that will change. More »
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Commenter Hongo has had it up to here with people denying devices the label 'portable' simply because they can't fit in their pants pocket. He'd prepared a portable primer for today's Speak Up on Kotaku. More »
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This week in the Nintendo Download, Pro Jumper! premieres for North American audiences, though the trailer is still in Japanese, it's an adorable variation on platformers. Tennis and Stratego are exactly what they sound like&emdash;expect no variations there. This week is rounded out by a hidden-object game that will put I Spy books to shame, and and a classic puzzle for the 3DS and DSi. More »
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The weekly Nintendo Download makes the move to Thursday morning this week, as the era of the eShop kicks off with the Game Boy version of Donkey Kong and a colorful WiiWare game about snails. More »
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The Nintendo eShop launched in the latest 3DS update, bringing with it the handheld's Virtual Console. Players can buy Game Boy titles like Super Marioland. More »
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Kotaku reader Maxwell passed along this wondrous mixture of old and slightly less old without any sort of source, so I'll just assume it sprang forth from the unspoken desires of gamers everywhere. More »
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Recently, some internet person picked up an unmarked Game Boy game at retailer Hard-Off for a mere ¥105 (US$1.29). It's not actually unmarked, with the label scratched completely off. The cartridge's back reads "unko" or "crap" in Japanese. More »
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In 1993, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr A. Serebrov blasted off for a trip to the Mir space station. Onboard his Soyuz rocket was this Game Boy, and it can now be yours. More »
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According to the bill of sale, this Game Boy was owned by Michael Jackson. He used it to court Macaulay Culkin. Culkin even set Tetris records on it. So $75 to call it your own is quite a steal! More »
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If this were a real game, it would be the best game ever made. I can already see the ads; Which seat will YOU take? More »
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OK, maybe there aren't 1000 words here, but there is just about every classic Game Boy game ever released (via it 8-bit) More »
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Drive up the volume for this user-created level from LittleBigPlanet 2, an homage to World 1-1 from Super Mario Land on the Game Boy. Creator Junkvxxl loaded the level three days ago; it became a developer favorite two days ago; it's been played more than 36,000 times in that span. If you have the game, perhaps you should try it for yourself. More »
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Jody Bennett of Mentcle, Pa., whose coffin-burgling of a Game Boy back in December managed to get the gaming handheld described - for purposes of criminal charges and possibly the first time ever - as a "venerated object," got two months of probation for his ugly deed. He's still going to jail, but on unrelated charges. More »
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Nintendo's Game Boy is the instrument of choice for some musicians, due to its charming chiptune sound and the prominence Little Sound Dj. But artist Sebastian Bender has taken a different approach to using the 8-bit handheld as musical maker. More »
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During an interview with Fortune Magazine, SCEA's charming CEO Jack Tretton discussed the company's business strategies...and then indulged in some nasty smack talk. More »
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If you like video games and animated series Adventure Time, no doubt one of your favourite characters will be Beemo, Jake and Finn's adorable little talking Game Boy...console...thing. More »
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Resolution of your iPhone camera got you down? Are HDR photographs just too dynamic for you? With the lo-fi magic of the 8-bit Pocket Camera app, you can make your iPhone's photographic capabilities look a good 13-years-old, emulating the qualities of Nintendo's Game Boy Camera. More »
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With the fifth generation of Pokémon monsters introduced (in North America) earlier this month, the bestiary is up to nearly 650. That's a lot of Pokémon, and it figures not every one of them is recognized as much as, say, Charmander, Snivy, Pikachu and, yes, Mudkip. More »
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The very last model of the Game Boy was the Game Boy Micro. It was tiny. You couldn't just put it in your pocket, you could lose it in there. Now let's compare that sleek handheld with something from 1991. More »
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On March 21, 2001, stores in Japan began selling the first units of the Game Boy Advance. There are few sentences that can better describe how far video games have come in the past decade than that. More »
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Police responding to a bomb scare this morning on a school bus outside of the Northside Intermediate school in Milton, Wisconsin, discovered an 11-year-old boy in possession of a video game system dressed up with wires and batteries to look like an explosive device. More »
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It's terrifying to think what their kids will be like. By John "wafflehouseninja" Pading. More »
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This video turned up a couple of weeks ago, claiming to be a "banned" Nintendo commercial. And that's not even the most interesting thing about it. More »
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Forget its glasses-free 3D, the Nintendo 3DS is unlike any Nintendo video game before it because it will debut without Mario or Luigi. The previous nine major gaming machines from Nintendo — all of the big ones, from NES to Wii — had these guys. More »
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You finally have a purpose for all those oscilloscopes that have surely piled up in your basement, now that one man has hacked together a way to play your original Game Boy games using its monochromatic powers of display. More »
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Artwork by Brandon Reese. More »
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An argument over a stolen gaming handheld last May led to a fatal stabbing, a guilty plea, and a sentence to 5 1/2 years in state prison today in New Jersey. The victim's mother is outraged. More »
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In today's day and age, if people want to see a whole bunch of Nintendo characters appearing in the same game, they can play Smash Bros. In the 1980s, they could play...Tetris. More »
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