Dress Your Xbox One And PS4 Up Like Respectable Game Consoles
Ah, that's much better. Now where do I put my money?
Proof that Nintendo Still Rules Japan
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!
Little Details Make This Ninja Turtles/Mario Mashup Great
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.
Hackers Can Take Over Cars and Drive Them With a Nintendo Controller
A pair of security experts demonstrated to the BBC that some ordinary models of cars can be overridden—despite whatever the driver is doing behind the wheel—using a laptop, some software, and an old Nintendo Entertainment System gamepad.
Guy Proposed By Modding Contra, But She Had To Finish It First. Ouch.
Veteran gamer EquinnoxX documented how he modified an old Contra cartridge with a proposal message to his girlfriend at the end of the game. Knowing that Contra is not necessarily the easiest game to beat, it feels like a somewhat cruel—but nevertheless fantastic—way to do it.
Happy 30th Birthday, Famicom
Your carefree 20s are over, Famicom. No more gallivanting. It's time to settle down—find a nice wife, get a stable job, maybe put a down payment on a house. You're 30 now.
You're Not Ready for All of Title Scream‘s Retro Game Nostalgia
Maybe you want to bask in the memories of the openings of all the games you played back in the day but don't feel like digging out and hooking up your old systems, if you held onto them at all. Title Scream is here for you.
How Past Game Consoles Said Goodbye in Japan
Each time we approach the beginning of a new console generation, it also marks the slow and gradual ending of the previous one. Games for the previous consoles are released less frequently until they disappear altogether. But have you ever wondered what the final releases were for each major home console in Japan? We…
Shigeru Miyamoto's 'Bad' Game
Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's lead creator of Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong, was recently showing me Pikmin 3
This Mesmerizing Version of Tetris Can Draw Anything You Want
Two years ago, the Internet stumbled across a guy who would work upwards of two hours to create virtuoso sprite patterns within Tetris
Super Mario Bros. 3 Was Kind Of Different In Japan
You might have already known that Nintendo changed a few things when bringing NES platformer Super Mario Bros. 3 to North America—mostly to make it easier—but it's still fascinating to see the changes presented side-by-side.
Classic Video Games With Real-Life Backdrops Are Delightful
Video games from the 8-bit and 16-bit era mixed with real life environments look awesome, and it's a technique that lets anyone's creativity shine. It's something that Kotaku has covered before
Horrid Friday the 13th NES Game Gets This Special Edition Figurine
Friday the 13th, the 1989 game, is widely considered to be one of the worst video games of all time, certainly one of the worst ever made for the NES. So of course it rates a special edition figurine—Jason Vorhees in the strange purple getup he wore for the final, deeply unsatisfying boss battle.
The Super Retro Trio Is Three Classic Consoles In One
With my children rapidly approaching gaming age, I want their introduction to my favorite pastime to begin with the classics — NES, Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. The Super Retro Trio, coming this summer from Innex and Retro-bit, handles games from all three of those systems for a mere $69.99. That'll look so lovely …
The Consoles Of The 1980s Are A Little Too 1980s
Having lived through the 80s, it's always weird when I see people associating the decade with BRIGHT PINK and BRIGHT PURPLE and neon lights and sparkles. I remember it being pretty dull. Lots of brown everywhere. Lots of bad plastic.
A Visual History of Attractive Video Game Characters: The 80s
Video games in the 80s only depicted a certain amount of pixels on the screen. Fortunately, that didn't hold developers back from pushing the limits of the available hardware to play with our imagination by creating beautiful, handsome characters.
NES Title Screens That Are Almost Better Than The Games Themselves
Sometimes I think the internet was invented just for sites like NES Title Screens. Places where you can make a cup of tea, sit down and just click through images that are equal parts fantastic art and pure nostalgia.
Goodwill Hunter Who Found Rare Game is Selling It to Pay Student Loans
The woman who purchased from a Goodwill store
Woman Buys Old Nintendo Game For $7.99. Turns Out It's Worth $15,000.
It's the archetypal jackpot story of flea markets, pawn shops and antiques roadshows. Someone pays a few dollars for a long-forgotten box at a swap meet and then discovers they have a five-figure rarity on their hands. That describes a North Carolina woman today, who purchased one of the rarest video games ever sold…
This Creepy-Cool Metroid Poster Gives a Shout-out to Alien
Lovers of Nintendo’s sci-fi action franchise know that Metroid’s female protagonist and a cosmic ecosystem of creatures that nest all over the galaxy were inspired by Ridley Scott’s classic space horror film Alien . A new poster by artist Marinko Milosevski (who we've featured
This Guy Wrote A Program That Teaches Itself To Play NES Games
This is amazing. Tom Murphy created a computer program that actually learns how to play classic NES games on its own, with a little instruction from Tom.
For chiptune aficionados, the original soundtrack to Mega Man now is available through the Capcom store, part of the Blue Bomber's 25th anniversary year. The album is $8.95.