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No, this thumb-sized NES controller isn’t an April Fools gag, and I’m staggered by how accurate it feels
The IINE Gamebrick Mini is a tiny NES Bluetooth controller that is roughtly the same size as a Game Boy Advance cartridge,…
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Nine years later, Hyperkin Retron HD is nowhere near as crumby as I remember, and it’s a solid starting point for playing physical NES carts on any screen
The Hyperkin Retron HD isn’t a perfect NES clone, but it’s actually a decent alternative to the real retro console with HDMI…
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After years of torturing myself over NES color accuracy, it turns out there is no consensus for how the retro console should look
It turns out that there’s no consensus on how NES games like Super Mario Bros should look, and it’s all thanks to…
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It’s no Steam Machine, but if you’ve got a grand to splash on a tiny rig, I’d check out this NES-inspired mini PC
The ACEMAGIC Retro X5 Mini PC that packs 32GB RAM and a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 into a NES-themed shell just…
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Almost 10 years after launch, Capcom’s NES Disney compilation could finally bring classics like DuckTales and Rescue Rangers to Switch as ESRB rating emerges with new publisher
Hopefully Goof Troop makes it in this time
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Historians recovered the source code for this never-before-seen NES shooter, finished the game themselves, and are now selling it as a charity fundraiser
Xcavator 2025 was rebuilt “using the tools and environments” it would’ve been developed with in the first place
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This NES horror JRPG spent 32 years as lost media, but once it was preserved it only took 33 days to get a complete fan translation
Splatterworld lives… in English!
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“Unforgivable” Stranger Things season 5 NES blooper has retro game fans fuming, albeit mostly jokingly
As The Simpsons would put it: “Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder”
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Despite a 30-year run in charge of Star Fox and F-Zero, former Nintendo veteran Takaya Imamura “always wished I could have experienced developing for the NES at least once”
But he gave us Tingle, so how could you regret anything
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“This isn’t just another emulator” – I can’t believe we’re getting a new 8-bit console that’s not a NES clone
The Gametank is a brand-new 8-bit console that boasts its own library of cartridges, but uses its own architecture to run retro-style…
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After 32 years, an NES horror JRPG thought to be lost media has suddenly leaked in fully playable form
Splatterworld lives!
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Square Enix says no spoilers for the remakes of 38-year-old NES JRPGs Dragon Quest 1 and 2, please – there’s a “big surprise” in store
“If you are streaming a scene that is closely related to the game’s scenario, please voluntarily mark it as ‘Contains spoilers’”
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Sales exec who helped launch the NES says Donkey Kong Jr. Math is “the worst game we released” and Nintendo “thought it’d be great for kids’ education, but we couldn’t give it away”
“I think that was one game that slipped through”
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Nintendo’s iconic NES Zapper could have been called something else if “a third” of a housewife focus group hadn’t walked out of a Duck Hunt preview: “No guns are coming in my house”
“About a third of the women got up and walked out”
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“Nintendo created their big competition”: Shuhei Yoshida says Super NES ditching PlayStation at the last minute was “almost helpful”
“Otherwise the Sony team would have been stuck as part of a Nintendo system”
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Retronauts Episode 719: The NES Launch Ranking Hootenanny
more like the Nutmeg Entertainment System
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High on Life 2 is about to be the only legal way to play notorious NES anti-classic Bible Adventures
“More than five” other games are included, and I hope they’re every bit as good
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Nintendo NES Bluetooth Control Pad Adapter ‘Retro Receiver’ Out Now
NES Bluetooth Control Pad Every had the urge to plug a more modern control pad into the Nintendo NES? You’re in luck!…
Emulation
puNES v0.99 released
puNES is a NES emulator. Currently the program supports mappers 0, MMC1, UNROM, CNROM, and the sound is available. It uses the…