Category: Games Consoles

Community Showcase: GreenBoy Games and the passion for the 4-shades-of-green handheld

Greenboy Games is a one-man studio that has only one objective: make games for the classic Nintendo Gameboy. Behind that studio is Dan Puch, a hobbyist game developer that is passionate about the 4-shades-of-green little screen handheld. While my first idea was to write about his work, last week we talked and later he sent me via email some answers…

Attention (Retro) Nintendo Developers: NESMaker Byte-Off 2020 compo has been announced!

The New 8-bit Heroes, creators of NESMaker have announced the 2020 edition of the Byte-Off game development competition. NESMaker is an Integrated Environment for PC that allows you to create NES games even with no programming experience. For more advanced users, the tool still saves development time while being flexible enough to allow machine language code to be added to…

Noobs Review 11 :- Super Mario Land (Game Boy 1990)

Super Mario Land is Mario`s 1st outing on the Game-Boy, how does it stack up 30 years after its release?

Noobs Review 8 :- Micro Machines (Megadrive 1993)

Micro Machines for the Mega Drive hit the stores in 1993, does it still hold up today? Lets find out

Noobs Review 6 :- Super Star Wars (Super Nintendo 1993)

Super Star Wars was released on the Super Nintendo in 1993, and was known as being a hard game, does it still hold up almost 30 years later?

Noobs Review 5 :- Moonwalker (Megadrive 1991)

SHAMMMMOONNEEEE…… excuse me….Did you ever wonder what it would be like playing as an 80`s icon in a fantasy setting…well now you can…

Noobs Review 4 :- Lemmings (Game Boy 1994)

Lemmings was released on loads…and i do mean loads…of systems, how does the Game Boy version stack up..lets find out.

Noobs Review 3 :- Mega Man 2 (NES 1988)

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…

Noobs Review 2 :- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (NES 1990)

Back in the late 80`s there was a phenomenon about to launch in the UK, (No i`m not talking about shell suits) i`m talking about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (In the UK the Ninja was replaced to Hero Because…you know….reasons). Konami released one of the greatest arcade games ever into the arcade in 1989, the 4 player simultaneous play…