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Old Super Mario Bros. Wii: The Night Four-Player Mario Grew Up and Got Grey Hairs
New Super Mario Bros. Wii turned 2D Mario into four-player chaos in 2009. Revisiting the co-op classic that is now, officially, retro itself.
Author: Sal Benedetto
From the Vault columnist. Grew up feeding quarters to the Ms. Pac-Man machine at his uncle's pizza place; still owns his childhood SNES and every Nintendo Power he ever begged his mother for. Writes the retrospectives and the hidden-gem hunts.
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Game Boy Works: Jeremy Parish’s One-Cartridge-at-a-Time History of a Revolution
Jeremy Parish’s Game Boy Works walks the entire library in release order. As it reaches the Color era, we examine why chronology is preservation’s sharpest tool.
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The Sorrow of Gadhlan Thur: The MSX2 Action RPG Built Like It’s 1991
Spain’s Kai Magazine Software spent the late 2010s finishing The Sorrow of Gadhlan Thur, a full-scale action RPG for MSX2 sold on real cartridge — proof that the MSX homebrew scene doesn’t do small.
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SRB2 Kart Late Nite Stream
When a community stream showcased SRB2Kart in May 2019 — the moment this post originally, if briefly, marked — the game was six months into a first season that would make it a fixture of fan-game cult
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Sonic the Hedgehog Bootleg Games: Inside the Hedgehog’s Pirate Shadow
Sega never licensed them, Nintendo never saw them coming, and no shop you have heard of ever stocked them on purpose. Yet for three decades, in markets from Taipei to São Paulo, Sonic the Hedgehog has
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The Day the Music Stopped: A Eulogy for the Wii Shop Channel, January 30, 2019
On January 30, 2019, the Wii Shop Channel closed for good after 12 years. Remembering Nintendo’s first download store and everything it started.
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Invasion 1984: The Little Game Boy Shooter Keeping the Arcade Invasion Alive
Invasion 1984, the Game Boy homebrew shooter announced in 2018, carries the Space Invaders lineage onto the brick. Why the fixed shooter and the Game Boy fit.
Reviews
Review: TANGLEWOOD – A new and original game for the SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis
There is a particular kind of madness required to make a Mega Drive game in 2018, and Tanglewood has it in the best way. The game was developed on an original 1993 SNASM development kit — period Sega
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Sonic Author Kiel Phegley: The Novelist Writing the Hedgehog for Young Readers
Ask a room of Sonic fans where they first met the hedgehog and most will name a game. Ask a younger room,…
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Sky Skipper on Switch — Nintendo’s Lost Arcade Game, Rescued at Last
Shelved in 1981, saved by a single surviving board: Nintendo’s Sky Skipper reached the Switch Arcade Archives after 37 years. The full story.