Gaming

Happy 25th Birthday, Nintendo Entertainment System!

It’s not just Super Mario Bros turning 25 this year. Today, October 18, marks the 25th anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System going on sale in the US.


October 12, 2010
Gaming

Report: Why Does The Nintendo Famicom Have The Colour Red?

When Nintendo launched the Nintendo Entertainment System in the West, the console was grey and black. Its Japanese originator, the Famicom, was not.


October 3, 2010
Entertainment

Nintendo NES DVD Player Reminds Me How Much I Loved Nintendo, DVDs

If I still watched movies on DVD and I still had my NES lying around, I would spend my entire weekend trying to make this Nintendo NES DVD player. It’s just beautiful. I love what he did with the NES controller.


September 29, 2010
Gaming

Cee Lo’s "F*ck You" As Performed By An Angry Nintendo NES

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September 17, 2010

Pretend Your iPhone Is Impressively Modded NES Controller

Instead of buying this $US5 decal and pretending that your super sophisticated 21st century smartphone is an old Nintendo controller, why not pretend that you just happen to have a magical NES controller that can run apps and make phone calls?


September 8, 2010

Behold! The Nintendo Entertainment System Coffee Table

A man named Matt has built a coffee table. It is designed to look like the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is awesome.


July 7, 2010
Gaming

RetroN 3 Can Play NES, SNES, Genesis Carts With All Three Original Controllers

These days, emulation makes having old school consoles hooked up to your TV pretty unnecessary. But if you must play Chrono Trigger from the original cartridge, the RetroN 3 is a pretty great way to do it.


June 3, 2010

TRON NES. I Repeat, TRON NES.

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This TRON-inspired NES illuminates with or without a black light thanks to glowing paint and eye-burning LEDs. And unlike most gaming mods, it’s actually on sale for $US250. [Threatris via Kotaku]


April 17, 2010
Gaming

The Kindle Plays NES Games Like A Penguin Soars

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Developers at KLab have built an NES emulator for the Kindle. It’s more awful than you could possibly imagine.


April 13, 2010
Gaming

What The NES Might Have Looked Like In 3D

Imagine, if you will, being sucked into a parallel universe in which the original Nintendo Entertainment System was exactly the same, but games like The Legend of Zelda were rendered in 3D. Don’t know what I mean? Watch this clip.