Category: Games Consoles

Fantastic Dizzy Superior, ‘Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy’ NES Hack Work In Progress

Fantastic Dizzy Superior by Łukasz Kur is a large-scale rom hack of “The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy” that changes and adds many features of the original game. It pays homage to both past and (possibly) future Dizzy titles while attempting to remain faithful to the look and feel of the original. Main Features: -3 slot save system -“Red” and “Blue” original…

ROMhacking.net Latest Rom Hacks and Translations Including Super Mario Land 2 DX!

Romhacking.net have updated their website with some brand new Rom Hacks and Translations. There is one particular hack that stands out for me today, which is called ‘Super Mario Land 2 DX’. I’m sure you guys have all owned a Game Boy at one point or another, heck I still own my original 1989 model, and it still works perfectly…

Brazilians have brand new Sega Genesis/MegaDrive again

Tec-toy is a Brazilian toy/electronics manufacturer that had launched, in partnership with Sega, the Mega Drive initially in 1990, around one year after it brought the Master System to the Brazilian gamers. Although it passed through tough times in the late 90’s, the company kept investing in Sega consoles and even launched original Mega Drive games at the beginning of the…

Three new brand new games for the NES

  Mega Cat Studios has released three new games for the NES:  Creepy Brawlers, Creeping it Reel, and Justice Duel. In Creepy Brawlers is, in Mega Cat own words, a horror-boxing game where you have to fight several “movie monsters” who have different abilities. If you manage to perfectly timed counter-attacks will be able to stun the monsters and get closer to the…

New Atari 2600 Games to be launched at 2017 Portland Retro Gaming Expo

The Atari 2600 will have three brand new homebrew games being released at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo that will happen next October 20-22. The games are Super Cobra Arcade, Space Cactus Canyon, and Draconian. Follow the description from the press release: Super Cobra Arcade is a sequel to the classic arcade game Scramble in which the player must navigate their…

City Trouble – A great homebrew action game for the NES

  The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) homebrew scene has never been stronger with many amazing releases in cartridge happening for the past few years. We at VITNO are excited to support the homebrew scene and we will start to post about games that are being released as well as games that were released recently. Mega Cat Studios’ City Trouble is a side-scroller…

The complete history of Nintendo arcade games

When I think Nintendo history, I can’t help but think about the home game consoles, like the NES. Little did I know how rich is Nintendo history in the video game realm that started a decade before the NES. In the light of the last Nintendo Direct announcement that included bringing to the Nintendo Switch old arcade games, the Tired Old…

NES Classic is back! In 2018, you will be able to go back in line at 5am to not find one!

Due to demand, Nintendo has announced that the elusive NES Classic will be available again in 2018. There are no details about when that will happen, but get that alarm clock and lawn chair ready so you can stand in the cold waiting for the store to open! (And see the NES is sold out all over again!!!!) Source: Engadget

New NES homebrew game development podcast

The Assembly Line is a new podcast that talks exclusively about homebrew games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. There are already four episodes, which the first released last June. Each episode focuses on one specific homebrew game, but what I love about the podcast is that the game is used to illustrate aspects of the NES game development which is…

Kickstarter – Games for Atari: 1977 to 1995

The campaign for Games for Atari: 1977 to 1995 is in its final days and might need more people in order to reach its goal. The project objective is to publish a book (or an Encyclopedia if you will) containing all games for all Atari consoles and 8-bit computers from 1977 to 1995. The project looks gorgeous and it is…