In 1989, marking the start of the blue-clad ninja's two-and-a-half decade career, the first Strider game was released in arcades throughout Japan and North America. From then on, it was a road filled with cameos, curious localization decisions, and slashed-up baddies.
This much. Actually, a bit more. They couldn't fit everything on one photo.
Screw touchscreens. There's something satisfying about the press of a button. The push, the give, the click, the release. You just know something's going to happen.
Copying scenes from movies, and putting their 8-bit replicas into their licensed video games was a bit of thing back in the NES era. NYC-based artist Brother Brain started a series where he compares these particular scenes using animated GIFs.
Yesterday Madden NFL 25 gave its prediction for Super Bowl Ex El Vee Eye Eye Eye, handing it to Denver, 31-28, on a field goal in overtime. Today, the guys keeping alive 1991's Tecmo Super Bowl offered their own version of events: another OT game, with Denver winning on a goddamn safety.
This is what the entire stadium in Tecmo Super Bowl would look like, according to @VideoGameMayhem. Clean, classic stadium design, but I think it could use a newer video scoreboard. [via TecmoBowl.org]
That ugly looking Nintendo World Championships cartridge for sale on eBay has been bid up to more than $99,000 over the past two days. The auction closes in two hours.
But nope! For that kind of luxury, you need to pay at least three to five times as much.
I hope you have some time set aside and have made yourself comfortable, because if you wanna watch every single NES 'start' screen, you're gonna need a few hours.
(Image removed at the artist's request and pulled from their own site, too - sorry!) Hard to tell which parts of this amazing Legend of Zelda pictures are painted, and which parts are real. It's a matte painting, made by artist Saad Alayyoubi for the ambitious Zelda Project. and you can check the original photo…
For some reason, the typed, un-illustrated manual, in Finnish, for Bram Stoker's Dracula on the NES is a very desirable collector's item. Finland's equivalent of eBay currently has a listing for one, where it's been bidded up to the equivalent of about $1,200 U.S.
No matter how full the internet is with Metroid fan art, there's always someone topping it with something special. Here's an injured Samus Aran with some awesome coloring by DeviantART user muju. Could look at this all day.
Is that... a Link to the future? Digital artist Jamie Boylan on DeviantART created one of the weirdest (in a good way!) pieces of Legend of Zelda fan arts. You can't say it lacks enough twists.
Dave Nunez sure likes 3D printing stuff, and his latest project was no small undertaking. Inspired by his desk lamp and a pile of spare parts, he came up with the design for this 'NESPoise' system, and it sure is pretty.
Ah, that's much better. Now where do I put my money?
You think you know everything about a NES? Well, think again.
If there's ever been any doubt, this should settle it. Over the past decade, Nintendo hasn't been doing well in Japan – It's been dominating.
What's the Moon from Majora's Mask doing in AVGN Adventures? The Angry Video Game Nerd-based platformer, which came out recently on Steam, has all sorts of gameplay elements from the horrible stuff James Rolfe featured in his videos (in addition to lots of swearing). But Majora's Mask? That's not a sh**ty game!
I really dig fan-made mashups and animations where there's a little easter egg or a hidden reference to catch every second—like the Statue of Liberty holding a golden NES Zelda cartridge in YouTuber James Farr's retro mashup animation above.
The mad magicians keeping Tecmo Super Bowl alive nearly 22 years after its debut have released their latest mod—Tecmo Super Bowl 2014, featuring all of the teams and players of the current league, just in time for the NFL's season opener tomorrow.
