What year is it?! If you still want to make 8-bit NES games, you can demo and buy “NES Maker” software here at GDC, which lets you create an NES game with a GUI interface, no programming necessary. The games you make can run on actual NES hardware.
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Last week, Nintendo added the cult-classic 1990 NES game StarTropics to the Switch Online library. There’s just one…
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Hello! Welcome to this inaugural edition of Morning Checkpoint. Each Saturday I’ll help you get caught up on last…
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When we talk about obscure or “lost” games, we normally need to have known about them in the first place to know…
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Swedish artist Love Hulten combines technology with natural wood to create outstanding works of functional art. He’s…
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When I think of the toughest games of my childhood, the Ghosts ‘n Goblins series from Capcom immediately comes to…
As usual with Nintendo’s classic game services, Switch Online’s NES app now has more games in Japan than it does in…
Every time Nintendo posts a YouTube video about its NES games for Switch Online, it gets more thumbs down than…
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Here’s a failed game concept that I really wish had managed to survive the gauntlet of development: Headcannon’s…
The NES Zapper light gun peripheral is an unfortunate victim of the relentless march of technology, rendered…
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There’s an infamous, hidden level in the original Super Mario Bros. called World -1 that is glitched and impossible…
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In January of 1991, a prototype for an NES version of SimCity appeared at an electronics show. It was never seen…
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The original Super Mario Bros. is tightly optimized, as far as speedruns go. Runners have been shaving off…
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Nintendo Switch Online hasn’t even been out for a day and hackers have already found a way to upload new NES games…
You can download the Famicom versions of Switch Online’s NES games from the Japanese eShop using a fake Japanese Nintendo Account. There aren’t many differences in most cases but it’s still pretty neat. Plus the Famicom box art is way cooler, and in the future Japan might get different games.
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The Switch is getting NES controllers for the library of NES games releasing on September 18 as part of the…