Category: NES
Back to the future is an all time classic movie franchise, but how were the games? Lets find out.
In 1987 Capcom, under the guidance of director “Akira Kitamura” released Mega Man on the Nintendo Entertainment System, sales were disappointing, to the point where a sequel was canned..until the developers within Capcom decided to produce the game in their own free time. And then on the 24th December 1988 Rockman 2 was released to the Japanese Public. And a…
The Mojon Twins are releasing a brand new game for the Nintendo Entretainment System (NES). Espitenen und Herr Pimponen is a colourful platformer where the player has to jump up the platforms, beating the screen scroll. As you jump from one platform to the other you have also to dodge or kill the enemies. Physics bring another challenge for the…
The 4MHz team are excited to announce that they have commenced development on Malasombra, an action adventure game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). Set in legends and fairy tales, Malasombra is an ambitious project carefully designed to provide gamers with an epic adventure, featuring an exciting story where nothing is what it seems. The backstory to Malasombra sees you…
Parisoft has released a port of Berzek for the Nintendo Entertainment System and it is available for purchase on itch.io. Berzek is an arcade game released in 1980 by Stern and later ported to the Atari 2600, 5200 and Vectrex. It was one of the first games to dynamically generate mazes and have synthesized voices. I actually remember it was…
The Legend of Zelda, Trial of Courage is an exciting new Zelda experience for the classic NES system. This brand new rom hack was created by The3Dude and took many months of hard work, editing and revising before an official release on June 1st 2019. Below is a list of things you can expect to see in this hack. Brand…
Morphcat Games, who last year ran a successful crowd funding campaign to raise funds to produce the cartridge, box and manual for their new Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game – Micro Mages, has recently made the game available on a general retail basis. Micro Mages is an upward vertical scrolling platform game that sees you take on the role of…
RetroAcción, a Spanish non-profit association dedicated to retro computing studies, has announced a contest to celebrate the Nintendo Game Boy 30th anniversary. From the contest page: “The goal of this contest is to encourage the development of new titles and productions for the Game Boy, so the videogame can be of any genre and complexity and can be programmed in…
1989 was a big year for me — Nintendo had taken North America by storm and just about everyone I knew had an NES console at home. It was the system that captured our imaginations — I was in grade 3 at the time, and we’d spend our recesses drawing elaborate NES levels (as seen in Nintendo Power), talking incessantly…
As an NES aficionado and amateur coder, I recently participated in NESmaker‘s 2019 BYTE-OFF competition. As a VITNO exclusive, I’m offering you the chance to play my submitted NES game — OFFICE HERO! To sweeten the deal, I’m offering prizes to the first few players who can beat the game and find all 8 exits to win the game. What…
