Category: NES

Ditch the cables! Bluetooth adapter for the NES available now

8Bitdo has released a bluetooth adapter that allows you to use modern controllers with the NES console, finally letting you ditch the cables. The adapter can be used with Wii remotes, PS4 controllers and, as expected, 8Bitdo NES bluetooth controller. The adapter costs $19.99, which is a pretty good value for what it offers. You can obtain more information following the…

“Nintendo PlayStation” Boot ROM Discovered

Last year, one of the biggest news around retro gaming was the discovery of the “Nintendo PlayStation”, which was a prototype of a partnership between Nintendo and Sony (duh!) to give SNES capabilities to use cartridges and also CD for games. RetroCollect reports that there is a file named SDBR_v0.95.sfc that seems to be legit, but they are still investigating…

'Nightmare Busters' – New game for SNES in cartridge

  Nightmare Busters is a new run & gun game developed through the partnership of Super Fighter Team and the game’s developers, Christophe Gayraud and Jean-Christophe Alessandri. “Synchronized with the wavelength of dreams, the miserable Tyrant has discovered a way to enter them and convolute what children see, hear and feel while they sleep — all for the benefit of…

25 Years of Lemmings – It's a Pixel THING – Ep.#81

Yes, the game features a suicidal mob of cute creatures is already 25 years old! Lemmings was first published by Psygnosis for the Amiga, Atari ST and PC in 1991. It was also ported for more than 20 different platforms, including NES, C64, Amstrad and Playstation. On this puzzle game, you control the lemmings trying to guide then to the…

"Super Famicom: The Box Art Collection" by Bitmap Books waiting for you!

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…

'Macross 6502', Assembler developer by Lucasfilm now available!

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' – The Making of

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…

Once upon a time John Romero made a version of 'Super Mario Bros. 3' for PC

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 Game Competition 2016: Strategy Games

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…

Nintendo PlayStation: It's real and it works

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…