Erik Voskuil running the wonderful Before Mario (and has wrote an excellent book of the same name), has one of the world’s best collections of Nintendo stuff. Recently though he managed to snag something that was special even by his standards: a couple of packs of 1950s Nintendo playing cards depicting the company’s hometown of ...
Hopefully you’re all enjoying the absolutely tremendous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revengethe latest addition to the TMNT video gaming canon from Dotemu and Tribute games. We know we are. It’s another blistering action game in the tradition of Konami’s NES and SNES beat-’em-ups. And that’s great — we called it “the best Turtles beat ...
picture: Nintendo / Kotaku / Tsvet04ek (Shutterstock) Stop me if you’ve heard this story before… A YouTube channel that featured music, covers, or remixes of classic songs from popular Nintendo games was forced to remove content after being contacted by Nintendo’s army of lawyers. Well it’s happening again. A new channel is now claiming to ...
photo: Luke Plunkett You’ll have seen a lot of Reggie Fils-Aime news lately. The man has a book out that tells stories about the notoriously secretive video game industry, so that’s to be expected. Much of it is instructive, some of it emotionallysometimes even a little puzzling. However, one section simply has me upset. It’s ...
Image: bennypvideo via TikTok We’re all probably guilty of neglecting our Nintendogs over the years, but have you ever lost your virtual pups? Nintendo Life reader and TikTok user Ben “bennypvideo” Pollard has become a bit of a viral sensation on the social media platform recently after he found an “abandoned” Nintendogs cartridge on a ...
image: Nintendo / Kotaku Bad news for anyone trying to re-download an old DSi Games or Wii titles via each console’s respective store channels: Currently, players are reporting that both channels are down, and have been for a few days. Many are now concerned the channels may not return and potentially lock away a lot ...
image: Nintendo Earlier today, a press release was published on the website of a Pentagon news service with the title Why today’s Gen Z is at risk from bootcamp injuries. It is very funny. You can read it here If you like (thank you Vice), but the gist is that a single guy from the ...
gif: Timur Gagiev / Kotaku Here’s a port I never expected but is real now and available for download today: Tomb Raider for the Game Boy Advance handheld console. It’s true. And this wild porting is only possible thanks to the flexible open source project “OpenLara”. Tomb Raider Running on a Game Boy Advance comes ...
The Game Boy Color was released in 1998, a few years before the first and grossest smartphones hit the market. Back then, the internet was fairly new and the idea of carrying around a single device that could send email, search the internet, send photos, and stream live video was years and years away. But ...
image: Nintendo / Kotaku So you just did a Nintendo Switch. Lucky you! Or maybe you have one for someone else and you want to help them get the most of it. How nice! In any case here some good things to know after opening everyone’s favorite hybrid portable console. While the Switch is pretty ...
