Category: NES
Bitmap Books has certainly found its niche and a lot of success there, not without deserving it. The publisher has been releasing many fantastic books about retro gaming like Commodore 64: a visual Commpendium. Now they just released a new book called Super Famicom: The Box Art Collection, which shows, as the name suggest, the box art of almost 250 classic Super…
There are so many 6502 good assemblers nowadays, including the modern KickAssembler and its javascripty macro capabilities. Now the 6502 developers have another option: Macross 6502. This assembler was developed between 1984 and 1987 by LucasFilm Ltd and used on the development of the game Habitat. Now, the project source code is available on Github, thanks to The Museum of Art…
Dungeon Master was originally developed for the Atari ST by FTL Games, and later ported for the Amiga, Apple IIGS, PC, SNES, TurboGrafx-CD, Sharp X68000 and PC-9801. The game established several new standards for RPG and video games in general. Jimmy Maher, The Digital Antiquarian, has published to articles about the game. The first one talks about the development of the game and the…
Back in 1990, IFD (soon to be Id Software) wanted to pitch a PC version of Super Mario 3 to Nintendo and to do so made a demo of the game running on the platform. As we all known Nintendo is adamant (or was) to keep its exclusive games only to its own consoles and the history tells us Id…
Forum 64 has released the rules for its new game competition 2016. The theme is “strategy games”. The competition will run from January 1st to Oct 31st 2016, but the registration has to be done until Dec 31st of this year. The forum thread explains the definition of Strategy games, and what will be accept. You can read all the…
Engadget has published an extensive article about the Nintendo Playstation, which first appeared back in July. A lot of people were skeptical about the Frankenstein machine equipped with CD-ROM and SNES cartridge slot. Could it be real? Well, it is! “The “Nintendo PlayStation” is now the stuff of gaming legend, with reportedly only about 200 prototypes ever produced. But, as…
The Amazing Spider-Man: Lethal Foes is a 1995 Japan-exclusive action game for the Super Famicom (Super Nintendo). Contrary to several bad Spiderman games, “Lethal Foes” is a great game, with great graphics and action. It is too bad it was never released in North America. Following the motto “better late than ever”, the game was recently translated by fans to…
Following the recent buzz about the new Wonderland Dizzy game, the Oliver Twins have also made available the (until now) unreleased Nintendo NES title Wonderland Dizzy and put it online for free. RetroCollect website reports that “This fantastic discovery is now sitting proudly on the newly launched Wonderland Dizzy website which includes an online Nintendo NES emulator to sample the game. Featuring…
On Oct 21st, 2015, Marty McFly arrives in our year, finally! The future pictured in the movie is not quite right, but it is an important date nonetheless. To celebrate this day, we have selected few retro games you should play, if you haven’t done already. Since we are talking specifically about the second movie, our choices are narrowed down…
Nowadays, it is all about the Internet, right? We can buy anything from almost anywhere, and for people who chase the latest and greatest collectable retro-game there are good options around the globe. However, sometimes it is nice to be able to shop using the old fashion way: driving to a physical store, browse the titles, talk to the sales…
