Throughout this year we have been able to see how the sale of video games has had an increase in figures spectacular. Nintendo classics like Super Mario Bros. or Zelda have reached astronomical numbers that few pockets can access. With a more modest fact, it reveals Kotaku than a copy of the first The Legend ...
The present and the future of the video game industry cannot be understood without the past, those years in which everything was experimentation, there was nothing settled and you had to squeeze your brain more than ever. In this field few stood out more than Masayuki Uemura. The former Nintendo engineer passed away on December ...
Image: Nintendo Life / Sayem Ahmed It is being reported that NES and SNES lead architect Masayuki Uemura has passed away at the age of 78. The Famicom – the system that would become the NES in the west – was the brainchild of Uemura, who joined Nintendo as an engineer from Sharp in 1972 ...
Image: Lowtek Games Alastair Low hadn’t even been born when the NES was originally released in the UK. But he spent much of his childhood joyously playing on Nintendo’s 8-bit wonder machine after picking one up for a pittance at a car boot sale in the mid-1990s. “I remember getting a NES with R.O.B. and ...
Every Christmas season has its fashionable product, its toy that all parents grab. Regardless of component shortages, console failures with high demand are also not a new phenomenon. For his new Christmas film, Warner was inspired by a time when the NES was selling like hot cakes (gingerbread). Warner Bros. just revealed a new Christmas ...
Oh god, retrogaming is getting expensive!
NES advantage After devices 1, 2 and 3 (click above), the 4th 1987, an ambitious arcade-style gamepad for Nintendo Entertainment System made its debut at this year’s Summer Consumer Electronics Show. Manufactured by the Japanese company Asciiware and licensed as an official device by Nintendo, the controller works as a standard NES controller and more. ...
Will the day come when this news accumulates and remains valid for more than a month? The video game sales by astronomical figures they have reached another level throughout this 2021. In just a few months the record for the most expensive game of all time has been broken several times. In April a copy ...
Remember guides? We certainly don’t, because of that terrible brain accident. But we’re pretty sure that they were excellent, fun little books filled with lovely art and weird semi-canonical facts about how Mario is secretly a tower of eggs in a trench coat. Anyway, you can now (or… soon) relive those glorious manual-filled days with ...
Of course, anyone can get the information just by looking at it. But I like to pass on to please you. Today we’re going to talk about the coasts of the NES. I am…
