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That title sounds like a bad Electronic Gaming Monthly April issue cover blurb, I know. The difference is, here it is real. While EGM would have hired an artist to fake the screen shots, this port is quite real. A team of several developers are working on making a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) port of […]
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Street Fighter 2 Nintendo Entertainment System Unofficial Port in Progress
October 3rd, 2021 
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LED Matrix Cube Display Playing Castlevania on Nintendo Entertainment System
December 28th, 2020 Carl Williams Anyone seen an LED Matrix Cube before? Me neither. They look cool though. Anyhow, the LED’s across four sides display the game screen. The one in the video below is set on an auto rotating base. This keeps the necessary parts of the screen in your view as you play. Unfortunately, this is extraordinarily little […]
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Tetris Tetrisizes World on Nintendo Entertainment System – November 20th, 1989 – Today in Video Game History
November 19th, 2020 Carl Williams Tetris on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) was more than just a license. It was the first official console release of the popular Soviet Russia developed game. It was also the culmination of many man hours investigating, talking, flying back and forth, and lawsuits. Out of all that commotion, Nintendo came out with the exclusive […]
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Now You Are Playing with Power, Nintendo Entertainment System Debuts in Stores – October 18th, 1985 – Today in Video Game History
October 18th, 2020 Carl Williams The Nintendo Entertainment System is a seminal system. When it was launched, the console market was in shambles. Atari had a big hand in that situation, but they were not alone. Nintendo knew things had to be different when their console launched. Whether you agree with the business practices used or not, the impact of […]
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Toki Enhanced Color Hack Released on Nintendo Entertainment System
July 19th, 2020 Carl Williams Toki is one of those arcade games I will forever remember. Fans of this ape game will want to pay attention here. Recently an independent developer created a hack for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) version. Better colors and a new sprite await you.
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Rollie Kickstarting Onto Nintendo Entertainment System
September 21st, 2019 Carl Williams Most reading this know what Kicsktarter is, a platform for those with talent, or a product, but no money can meet fans with money and get funded. The retro gaming scene is one that has flourished with the increase in popularity of these “crowd funding” services. Rollie by Optovania is one such upcoming title that […]
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Nintendo Entertainment System Mode-7 3D Engine Shows Promise
August 2nd, 2019 Carl Williams 3D on the Super Nintendo was a huge selling point for the 16-bit console from Nintendo. The NES was not exactly capable of this stuff, though some developers certainly tried, with varying results. Leave it to independent homebrew developers to one up the official stuff we saw years ago. One such developer, Z80artist on YouTube, […]
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Berzerk Ported to Nintendo Entertainment System
July 30th, 2019 Carl Williams When it comes to game ports it is often a brighter outlook if you steer towards independent homebrew developers. This is mainly due to contracts and other legal issues that keep some of our favorite games off certain platforms. Nintendo was well versed in this type of keeping games off other platforms during the NES […]
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SimCity Discovered, Archived, for Nintendo Entertainment System
December 26th, 2018 Carl Williams It is not all that common that I get to discuss an actual Nintendo developed prototype discovery so this one is very interesting to me. Couple that with the fact that I was a huge fan of the Super NES version of SimCity and this news gets even more fun for me. I remember idly […]
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Fan Porting Shadow of the Beast to Nintendo Entertainment System
June 5th, 2018 Carl Williams If you are scratching your head at that headline then don’t worry, I am sure you are not alone. Shadow of the Beast, a franchise that was quite impressive back in the day, started life on the Commodore Amiga computer and later saw ports for many platforms. The Super Nintendo is the only Nintendo platform […]
