Subscribe to Nintendo life on YouTube764k The director of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Masahiro Sakurai is back at it with a new “Grab Bag” video – this time discussing “the most amazing year for the gaming industry.” In his “personal opinion”, it is in 1986 – the year that marked the beginning of several big ...
Gavin Lane, editor Image: Nintendo Mario Bros. 3 was my first. Actually, I don’t remember if it was 3 or Super Mario Bros. which was actually mine First — my brother had both strollers — but 3 really captured my imagination. The dancing objects on the world map screen, Mario’s round, waddling spirit and the ...
Image: Nintendo Life Happy MAR10! Well, almost. Mario Day is on March 10, so we’re republishing our list of the best mainline games starring a plumber. Which is the best Mario game ever? Where do you even begin to rank all the Mario games? Let’s face it, anyone in the top 10 could legitimately take ...
Be sure to cast your votes in the poll below; but first, let’s look at the box designs themselves. North America Picture: Let’s compete The design for North America and Europe is remarkably similar, with the only real differences being the general look of the Ryu Hayabusa and the applied art style. Here, Ryu shows ...
Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life Four decades after becoming an international sales phenomenon and dominating a crowded gaming market, the Nintendo Entertainment System – the 8-bit box that spawned some of the media’s greatest enduring franchises – today finds itself playing host to something else entirely: a new aftermarket of IPs that are incredibly ...
Image: Nintendo / Universal Pictures You remember when we highlighted the wonderful efforts @KeshiCorner in preserving Zelda history by 3D scanning a bunch of rare figures from the 1980s? Well, they’re back at it again with another batch of great figures from Bandai that would otherwise have been lost to the merciless passage of time. ...
Almost 40 years have passed since The Legend of Zelda invaded our homes and Nintendo created one of its most legendary franchises. How to forget Link picking up his sword for the first time to face the dangers that awaited him on that unforgettable 8-bit map. If we add a LEGO lover to such a ...
Image: Nintendo Life During a recent interview with Gene Park of The Washington Postfamed Nintendo composer Koji Kondo recalled his work with Nintendo and the impact his music had on the industry after it was inducted into the National Music Registry. One particular anecdote that caught our eye happened just one year after the launch ...
Update: To celebrate the 10th anniversary of DKC: Tropical Freeze and the return of DK (and his rivalry with Mario) to the Switch in Mario vs. Donkey Kongwe’re revamping our list of the best DK games, switching it to a reader-ranked format. That’s right, the list below is now governed by the user rating of ...
In an unexpected turn of events, modder and YouTuber, DeCrAzYo, pushed the boundaries of retro gaming by successfully installing a Linux-like operating system on the NES console. Despite the hardware limitations of the NES, DeCrAzYo sought to run Linux directly on the NES processor. However, due to processor limitations, it turned to a UNIX-like operating ...
