Retro fans with a subscription to Nintendo Switch Online are getting supplies again, because the Japanese put together a neat package of NES, SNES and Game Boy games in March. For some time now, Nintendo has been publishing numerous classics from the past via Nintendo Switch Online, which can then be enjoyed on the current ...
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Here’s some balm for your soul this Thursday morning: There’s a museum in Japan that aims to reunite people with the Famicom games they once owned (via my city). Have you ever scrawled your name on an old cassette or game box, only to sell it later? You might ...
In the mid-1980s in Kyoto, Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka and their team at Nintendo were working in parallel on two game designs that would represent two sides of the same coin. One would be linear, an obstacle course, a headless rush towards a goal. The other would be non-linear, a mysterious labyrinth, an unpredictable world ...
If there is a classic title that has marked the evolution of video games throughout history in many ways, this is it. The legend of Zelda, that since his first cartridge for the NES, in 1986, he made it clear what his intentions were and it contained virtually all the elements that we have seen ...
Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life Hopping on and off public transport can be a boring task at the best of times and an all-out nightmare at the worst. But what if instead of having to pay for the bus with our normal people hard-earned money, we could instead use all that which we had ...
Image: Nintendo Life Hello, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Before we get cracking with this week’s crawl, let’s have a gander at how things went down last time. We took a look at the GBA launch title F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, pitting North America and Europe against Japan. Surprisingly, although the Japanese ...
Santa Monica Studio’s Eric Williams, who is the director behind the newly released and critically acclaimed God of War: Ragnarok, has spoken to IGN about the Nintendo Entertainment System games which have influenced some of his design decision in the games he’s been involved in. Mr. Williams says that he is an engineer at heart ...
Gaming News Before Resident Evil, there was Sweet Home, the NES RPG horror game Published on 10/29/2022 at 9:35 am A mansion in the middle of a forest, a team of five people come to unravel the mysteries of the gloomy building, narrow corridors, deadly traps, monstrous creatures haunting the place… does that remind you ...
Image: Nintendo Life Welcome folks, to another edition of ‘Box Art Brawl’! Last week saw the classic N64 title Pilotwings 64 battle it out for box art supremacy. The results were honestly quite a bit closer than we were anticipating, but nevertheless, Japan’s vertical design took the lion’s share of the vote with 60%. Bad ...
Today we bring you quite an interesting curiosity. Although the most veterans will know that The Legend of Zelda para NES It arrived in our hands in a nice gold box, that was not the standard for titles at the time. In those days, games used to come in black boxes with a little representational ...
