NES Archives

SimCity is one of the most revolutionary titles in video game history with 36 different ports across PC platforms and home consoles, yet one platform mysteriously missing is the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom Home Computer. https://youtu.be/N0q93b_allYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: SimCity NES Unreleased Prototype Gameplay (https://youtu.be/N0q93b_allY) Will Wright created the original city-building game in 1989[...]

credit// Heritage Auctions If you've ever wondered whether your vintage video games could be worth something, Heritage Auctions is now accepting "slabbed" video games as part of their collection. Just got the new Heritage Auctions newsletter and apparently "slabbed" video game cartridges are a thing? pic.twitter.com/5c6fLSJcXe — Ben Towle (@ben_towle) January 3, 2019 And yes, there are more games[...]

The game was shown once at an electronics show, and then never heard from again as the company went full-throttle into the SNES era, which is the console that would eventually get a version of the game What happened to the original? Only a few test cartridges were made, and two of them popped up near[...]

Credit// Nintendo Nintendo is bringing three more NES Classics to the Nintendo Switch Online Library on December 12th The three NES games making it to the service this month are Adventures of Lolo, Ninja Gaiden, and Wario's Woods Nintendo also confirmed that more NES games will be added to the Switch Online library next year, with the next around[...]

Probably one of the coolest creations you'll see all year (for what's left of it), someone turned a Nintendo NES into a fully functional guitar/console. Rob Scallon posted on his YouTube channel a short video of this fully functional guitar made from an original Nintendo Entertainment System console (created by Randy Garcia), which is also a fully-functional[...]

Today, Nintendo released a brand new teaser video showing off the remaining NES games coming to Nintendo Switch Online for 2018 For the month of November, players can get their hands on Metroid, Mighty Bomb Jack, and TwinBee, while the three games coming up in December will be Adventures of Lolo, Ninja Gaiden, and Wario's Woods[...]

Nintendo has decided to hit you with some extra nostalgia by hyping the next few NES games coming to Nintendo Switch Online Right now you have 20 games to choose from with the online service, but the company has made it know with the new trailer here that they will be adding three games a[...]

Those of you hoping to snag a couple of those NES controllers for the Nintendo Switch will have to subscribe to the online service first According to Nintendo's own website, the controllers will be sold as a pair for $60, but you have to prove that you have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription first before[...]

The bane of many a gamer's existences has to be the Turbo Tunnel in the original Battletoads for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Three classic, but slightly terrifying, 8-bit NES adventure games are coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC just in time for Halloween. Packaged in a bundle called the 8-Bit Adventure Anthology (Volume One), Abstraction Games will be releasing NES titles Shadowgate, The Uninvited, and Déjà Vu on October 31, 2017 Because nothing says Halloween quite like replaying[...]

I'm aware that it has a history, including an NES videogame release from the 1990's. As usual, I throw that out there as a disclaimer I'm not too familiar with Zen. However, I'm always willing to try new things, and my father recommended this one to me He read a couple of issues from the last run[...]

SNES Classic comes hot on the heels today after last years mega-popular NES classic What basically boiled down to a emulator in a mini-Nintendo house caused quite the stir — sell-outs, ridiculous prices on the after-market, and angry customers demanding that Nintendo answer for making such a short supply While they are in fact making[...]

To help celebrate the release of the Super NES Classic Edition, Nintendo has made two significant announcements regarding their retro systems The first being that the SNES version will have a "higher volume of units" compared to the last, meaning that you might actually have the chance to buy one and not get scalped on[...]

for the NES just sold on eBay for a whopping $30,100.44 The seller, a well known and I'd say respected retro collector known as DKOldies threw the item up last week for one cent, which has been sitting in the CEO's office until he decided one day to just sell it along with other sealed games. Now what makes[...]

SwitchBrew found something interesting inside the firmware of the Nintendo Switch this week: an NES emulator, which they loaded up the data for everyone to check out on their site The laymen's version of all that technical data is that there is an emulator file called "flog" on the Nintendo Switch, not being used by[...]

So I'm not going to insult us all and pretend these are all here for your nostalgia fix, but the consoles used do include that Atari above, the Sega Genesis, and the NES, so they are a bit retro. Personally, I think the Genesis is the most car-like of the bunch What about you? #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1[...]

After all the terrible news about the NES Classic Edition, and now the news that the SNES Classic Edition will be replacing it, fans are now anxiously awaiting the last of the consoles to hit the marketplace Well, we got good news and bad new for you and they're both the same: Best Buy is[...]

Back when College Humor was actually on their game, they used to have awesome videos of what a TV show would look like as an old SNES game I wish this trend would keep happening since the videos of Doctor Who and Breaking Bad are just awesome In the same spirit, a fun little video[...]

During this time, Disney and Capcom had a working deal to produce games based off the shows, and we got several games out of their partnership for the original NES Some great, some good, and some you rented at the video store because that's all they had. credit//Capcom After seeing the success of 2015's Mega Man Legacy[...]

When Nintendo released the NES Classic Edition last November, the company basically gave themselves a license to print money Whether you're a Nintendo fan or not, you could not deny the immediate success of the retro console as it sold out across the globe and people have been waiting to plop down $60 and get[...]

No really, this collection is absolutely designed to prey upon your desire to return to the simpler times of your childhood. Capcom has partnered with Disney to give us a collection of 6-NES era games including Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2, Darkwing Duck, DuckTales, DuckTales 2, and TaleSpin. I may be hating a[...]

The past weekend saw the Sixth-Ever Best of NES Big 20 Race take place on Twitch, featuring a who's who of NES streamers and professional speedrunners looking to claim mild internet glory The goal of the competition: to beat a series of classic NES titles the in the fastest time possible 20 players went head-to-head, streaming from[...]

In a feat that not a lot of people can boast, Piotr Delgado Kusielczuk, better known as "The Mexican Runner" on Twitch, has set the bar for every old-school NES collector and gamer He has successfully defeated all 714 games released for the Nintendo Entertainment System, and he has the video footage to prove it. Without using[...]

 This is real. It is, as far as I know, the only homebrew for the NES to actually use the light gun  Andrew Reitano is a longtime tech nut who loved his NES when he was younger  And just to fulfill his dream of making his own game for it, he started working on SRR[...]

In this case, a NES. Now this is pretty neat. As part of Hack Day, a couple of Netflix engineers got a little creative They decided to have a go at creating a Netflix service on a Nintendo Entertainment System Here is what came of it. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yn-rNdYZAY[/youtube] Granted, the 2-bit display is not the optimal way to watch[...]

By Jared Cornelius I'm the kind of guy who's not crazy about crowds, I'm not afraid of being trampled or have some irrational fear, but whenever I'm somewhere like Wizard World Philly I can't help but feel congested.  I enjoy conventions, I enjoy meeting like-minded people, but it always seems like such a hassle fighting crowds and waiting in[...]

 Now we switch from the doldrums of having little to play to having too many games to play.  We're adding to the pile in what is bound to be another memorable week of releases with a brand new AAA franchise leading the way. First off this month we take a scenic trip to Middle Earth, more specifically the bad[...]

Elliot poem of the same name, The Waste Land places you in the role of King Zyron III whose actions have transformed the land and unleashed a horrible evil that only he can stop.  Metroid-Vania titles at heart are about exploration and role playing game style upgrades with The Waste Land boasting "vast maps across 7 continents" and a series of[...]

By Jared Cornelius Have you ever played a modern game that takes you back to your childhood?  A game that in every way makes you remember why you fell in love with video games in the first place? 2D platformer, Shovel Knight, has become that title for me.  Shovel Knight started life as a successful Kickstarter from Yacht Club Games, a group of ex-Wayforward Technologies employees.  Wayforward has[...]

By Jared Cornelius   Welcome back to Live(ish) From The Games Shop.  I was content to keep complaining about the lack of releases again, because unsurprisingly this is another barren week.  However, a bright shining star was released on Friday, escaping last week's column.  So I'm going to gush about that, then give you a couple of quality download titles[...]