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Mario Super Picross was a puzzle game released on the Super Famicom. This title never made it to North America. There was a similar title for the Nintendo Game Boy released. After that, the whole genre of Picross never really picked up in North America. Such a shame as this style puzzle can be quite […]
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Street Fighter 2 Nintendo Entertainment System Unofficial Port in Progress
October 3rd, 2021 
Carl Williams 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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Mario Party 2 Continues Nintendo Genre Take Overs – January 24th, 2000 – Today in Video Game History
January 23rd, 2021 Carl Williams Mario Party 2 is a multiplayer party game that takes advantage of the Nintendo 64 hardware. Namely the four players at once capabilities. This allowed Hudson Soft, the developers, a lot of freedom in how the Mario Party line of games play. Even if you do not have three friends to play with you can […]
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Legend of Zelda The Minish Cap Continues Innovating Classic Formula on Nintendo Game Boy Advance – January 10th, 2005 – Today in Video Game History
January 9th, 2021 Carl Williams Legend of Zelda The Minish Cap has a story set in a unique position. The third entry in the Four Swords series takes place between Skyward Sword and Four Swords. Nintendo’s Hyrule hero’s adventure here also takes place prior to the events that split the Zelda timeline in Ocarina of Time. The Minish Cap allows […]
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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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WorkBoy Long Lost Nintendo Game Boy Accessory Discovered
December 26th, 2020 Carl Williams The WorkBoy is a curiosity of accessories. This device was intended to fill a gap between gaming devices and computers. Like how, in Japan at least, Nintendo had a keyboard, modem, etc available for their NES console. Unfortunately, this add-on was not going to feature online connectivity of any kind. That would limit what you […]
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Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Was Almost a Nintendo 64 Launch Title – December 3rd, 1996 – Today in Video Game History
December 3rd, 2020 Carl Williams Star Wars Shadows of the Empire was one of the first third party games to launch for the Nintendo 64. LucasArts postponed the release to give the developers a bit more time to clean things up. That does not happen all that often. Anyhow, not being able to use the main characters from the movies […]
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Dr Mario Does House Calls with Nintendo Game Boy – December 1st, 1990 – Today in Video Game History
December 1st, 2020 Carl Williams Dr Mario is an anomalous release by Nintendo. On the surface, everything has the Nintendo feel to it. If you look slightly below the surface though and you see something more going on here. For one, we seem to have jumped forward in Mario’s life as he is now a doctor. Gone is the Mushroom […]
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Castlevania II Simon’s Quest Branches Franchise on Nintendo NES – December 1st, 1988 – Today in Video Game History
November 30th, 2020 Carl Williams You either love or hate Castlevania II Simon’s Quest by Konami on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). There is no real “middle ground” with this release. Hardcore Castlevania fans place this one towards the bottom of their list of quality entries. Others actively engage in the adventure aspect presented in Simon’s Quest. The exploration does […]
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Donkey Kong Country Brings SGI Graphics and More to Super Nintendo – November 21st, 1994 – Today in Video Game History
November 20th, 2020 Carl Williams Donkey Kong Country (DKC) was somewhat of a gamble for Nintendo. For one, it had been years since home console gamers saw a Donkey Kong game. Earlier in 1994 Nintendo released Donkey Kong for their Game Boy handheld. That title was closer to the 1981 arcade classic, just with more levels. Donkey Kong Country on […]
