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Everyone's heard about high score runs, but how about the opposite? In this video, NicoNico Douga user Haru@Yotsuba sets out to get the lowest possible score in Super Mario World on the SNES. Mario World becomes a very different game in this challenge, where killing Koopa Troopa or breaking a brick is the same as failure. But not content with this already insane challenge, he added a few more rules: More »
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New York LEGO builder Baron von Brunk has done something I'm surprised it's taken decades for someone to do: take Transformers villain Megatron as inspiration and build a transforming NES Zapper. More »
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Kotaku reader Riccardo whipped up this HD version of Mother's opening credits. It, like the game itself, is fantastic. If anything should get you excited about an HD Nintendo gaming system, it's this. More »
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Platinumfungi grew up playing The Legend of Zelda and decided the best way to say thanks was with a NES case mod and this lovely video. More »
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The same folks who made that amazing Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening animation in Mojang's hit sandbox construction game have come back with yet another homage to an old-school classic. MinecraftA2Z managed to recreate Punch-Out's first bout—where series hero Mac trades blows with Glass Joe—by manipulating millions of blocks frame by frame, in the same manner as the Super Mario Land clip. More »
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You expect, and will find, old games for the Famicom where you play as a soldier. Or a pilot. Or an athlete. More »
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Nearly pristine. Frozen in time. That's what the claims are for a rare 1985 edition of the Nintendo Entertainment System being sold on eBay. Wrapped in plastic in a handled cardboard box, the NES up for grabs is apparently in the same state that retailers received it more than 20 years ago. More »
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An article on Hungary's MSN portal about teen sexuality uses an interesting image to illustrate its point. And by interesting I mean amazing. More »
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Comic writer and artist Ed Piskor doesn't just nail the Nintendo Entertainment System, he nails the entire 1980s in this comic for Boing-Boing. More »
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Remember R.B.I. Baseball? The classic sports title for the Nintendo Entertainment System? This gamer is so confident that he can defeat anyone at it, he or she took out an ad in a local Oklahoma newspaper. More »
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Do not trust FedEx with your deliveries. I had shipped out a NES coffee table to someone who bought one, and upon receiving it, they ignored the "This side up" stickers and delivered it on it's side. They also had stacked a large and very heavy box on top of it, tweaking the table inside. There were minor damages, some splitting and chipped paint. I had him ship the damaged table back to me and I got to work making him a new one. More »
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The Nintendo Entertainment System, and its Japanese sibling the Famicom, were two of the most successful video game consoles to ever be released. Which led to a lot of, let's say, imitators. More »
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When you think about it, Duck Hunt is a pretty scary game. Get past the blue skies and cheery art design and that's one evil dog lurking in the bushes. Something this horror movie based on the Nintendo classic knows only too well. More »
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Dorkly's rewritten the theme song to Konami's 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game for the NES to reflect the overall quality of the title. Oh come on, it wasn't that bad, was it? More »
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Cult classic PlayStation 2 game Okami got a Wii port. It never got a NES version, because that system was well before the game's time. But what if it did? More »
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NHL 12 is not just a critically acclaimed game for its simulated play; it's also a fun time for armchair talent evaluators and kitchen-table franchise managers. Giving credit where it is due, the series' producer says the game took its inspiration from an old, old old-school NES title. More »
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This season's Retro Game Master ends with a bang as the Kacho takes on... Golden Axe. 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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There's a little surprise in this unassuming cardboard box: a physical side-scroller, a paper-based re-imagining of Nintendo classic Super Mario Bros.. It's all powered by servos, some open source code and a little device named the Teagueduino. More »
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Things got interesting, once Link learned the upthrust technique in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. Artist Sang Han took his love of the game and created this bloody beautiful piece. More »
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Ah, and now the football video game that really is just a roster and uniform update, and that's all everyone wants it to be. Just in time for the NFL's kickoff tomorrow, modders today released Tecmo Super Bowl 2012. It's the same NES classic you've loved for 20 years, updated with the stars of the current league. More »
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You love it, you know it, it's crap. The Cheetahmen appeared on the dreadful Action 52 cartridge, and it was supposed to be like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It wasn't. More »
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The 3DS's new second thumbstick is, to be blunt, horrific. It's an ugly, quick fix to a problem that should have been identified during the handheld's design phase, not six months after. More »
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Despite annual reminders, Hollywood has never made good on its threat to release a sequel to classic 1985 adventure flick The Goonies. More »
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We started to see limited edition consoles pop up regularly in the late 1990s. They're of course commonplace now. In the early 90s and before, though, they weren't really around, which is where Ricepuppet's console customisation service comes in handy. More »
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Yesterday, ten free NES Virtual Console games were dispensed to 3DS owners who had purchased the hardware before the price cut. And it looks like those gamers won't be playing their VC games alone. More »
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Today, Nintendo's ambassador program kicked off early in Japan, giving early 3DS adopters like me the chance to snag free NES games. In this video, I give some of the games a spin. More »
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Today, the 3DS' "ambassador program" kicked off in Japan—you know the program that gives early birds twenty free games. More »
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This week, starting September 1, early Nintendo 3DS adopters will be to download classic NES games like Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda for free—as long as they hopped on the Nintendo eShop in time and achieved "Nintendo 3DS Ambassador" status. Turns out, downloading those games might be just a little bit... tricky. More »
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Either these cosplayers at PAX 2011 in Seattle were relaxing when they agreed to let me take their photo this past weekend, or they were role-playing the more mellow, never-before-seen alternate ending the second-best Zelda on the Nintendo Entertainment System. More »
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Back in July, Nintendo announced it was dropping the 3DS's price from US$250 to $170. To make it up to those who shelled out full price, Nintendo launched its 3DS "ambassador program", More »
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Saving the Princess looks almost too easy armed with an Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device. But that doesn't mean we're not overly excited to play Mari0, a side-scrolling that jams Valve's brand of teleportation into Nintendo's NES classic. More »
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This week's Retro Game Master challenge's full title is actually Kanshaku tamanage Kantarō no Tōkaidō Gojūsan-tsugi. (That's Firework Thrower Kantaro's 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō in English.) But we're just calling it 53 Stations of the Tōkaidō! More »
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Previously (on Pawn Stars), a Halo cosplayer sought $2,000 for his custom-built Spartan armor, and walked out with nothing. A little snicker-inducing, but the seller kept his hubris to a minimum and seemed to show more understanding than disappointment, so I felt a little sorry for the guy. This, however, is pure schadenfreude. More »
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Samus gets a loving / mind numbing Metroid kiss in this 25 year anniversary illustration by artist Drew Green. Check out more of his work here on Tumblr. More »
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Because they don't count the CDi Zelda games, and because they count the repeatedly re-released Ocarina of Time twice, Nintendo promotes a worldview in which 17 ^[1] Zelda games have been released in the past 25 years. More »
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This week on Retro Game Master The Kacho takes on The Poseidon Adventure-inspired adventure game S.O.S. More »
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Artist Justin Currie, admittedly an inexperienced Metroid player, gorgeously illustrates the disintegrating armor of Nintendo icon and bounty hunter Samus Aran, a moment before it fully forms around her (or disintegrates, depending on your point of view). More »
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This week on Retro Game Master The Kacho takes on the side-scrolling platformer The Mystery of Atlantis. More »
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Own a Nintendo 3DS or plan on getting one in the next couple of weeks? Congratulations you're now a Nintendo 3DS Ambassador and that means you get 20 free games. Right? Maybe. More »
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