You may remember a few years ago when veteran game developer and DOOM legend John Romero released a video of a PC port demo of Super Mario Bros. 3 originally built as a pitch to Nintendo back in 1990. Well, the full demo has now turned up in a bunch of data donated to the ...
If you’re big on your video game preservation and history, this latest batch of pre-orders will be right up your retro-collecting street. Piko Interactive, an American publisher that specialises in grabbing the rights to forgotten, never-released games from years gone by and giving them the development time they deserved, has opened orders for four games ...
© PixelHeart We’re pretty used to seeing retro games getting reprints these days, but if you have a craving for 100% authenticity, then you might be more excited by the news that French publisher PixelHeart has 500 ‘new’ copies of F-Zero on the SNES for sale. While some overly optimistic individuals might assume these are ...
The aptly-named Japanese studio Treasure — in spite of its fondness for focusing on less popular formats and its infrequent and occasionally Japan-only releases — has long been a developer famed throughout all of game-dom for the consistent originality and sheer quality that runs through its work. Formed in 1992 by a bunch of ex-Konami ...
Update [Sat 10th Jul, 2021 07:30 BST]: Well, it’s official – a week later the same Legend of Zelda NES cartridge has now sold for $870,000 USD. This not only surpasses the amount Super Mario Bros. sold for, but also makes it the highest-priced video game that has ever been sold at an auction. That’s ...
© Nintendo Life You can keep your fancy-pants Switch OLED Models, chum – for retro fans, the news that the GBA SP is getting a battery upgrade is arguably more exciting (‘arguably’ being the operative word here). While older Nintendo systems like the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance have been subject to some really ...
picture: Tomb Raider Foundation / Kotaku Of course now Indie repentance day has been such an instituteut in the game industry since its inception this morning, that people are starting to get nostalgic about the whole thing. To meet that need, here are ten indie games that you have probably never seen before and that ...
Not so long ago, a super-rare version of Super Mario Bros. sold for $660,000 at auction, and now it’s The Legend of Zelda‘s turn. Yes, in the crazy world we now live in, people are buying hard-to-find retro game cartridges for insane sums of money. A 1987 copy of the NES classic Zelda – which ...
Microsoft has decided to take its most famous FPS franchise to a “touchy” console genre like RTS. Real-time strategy games are a genre that we generally associate with the PC, but in 2009, Microsoft decided that the studio in charge of Age of Empires at the time, Ensemble Studios, take this formula on console, especially ...
© Nintendo I first experience with the Metroid series was relatively unremarkable: I just bought Super Metroid for my SNES, back when a brand new SNES game was something you could just walk into a local shop and buy. I took its oversized box home, flipped through the glossy Player’s Guide, and noticed something odd ...
