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Retro console lovers are perhaps the last group I'd expect to be up in arms on a quiet Tuesday because of the BBC. Yet, the ...
In this article, we’ll break down its physical design, internal technology, and how it communicated with the NES, uncovering why this gamepad left such a lasting mark on the industry. In 1983, when ...
Cracking open the NES Classic game console. CNET/TechRepublic What the teardown tells us. Simple to crack open: The only tool you really need to disassemble the NES Classic Edition is a small ...
BBC Breakfast's retro gaming segment has gone viral for all the wrong reasons as it featured an NES game awkwardly jammed ...
A segment on the rise of retro gaming on the BBC will now be forever remembered for putting a NES cartridge for Super Mario ...
The miniature version of its first home video game console released in 1985 will return to stores on June 29, Nintendo confirmed in a tweet. The NES Classic was a popular holiday item when it ...
It was 20 years ago today, to paraphrase the Beatles song, that "Super Mario Bros." started to play. On Oct. 18, 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) first went on sale in the United ...
When it’s a cartridge game for a console like the NES, that thrill increases. “There’s something special about getting a brand-new cartridge that just brings you back,” he says.
The actual guts of the NES were quite similar across the world, though the console's loading mechanism, shape, and game controllers varied by region. Image by Bololabich, All of this, I learned later.
He's been a godsend for helping the NES homebrew scene get their software on an actual console." The boards for the game are produced and then shipped in from China.