Category: Games Consoles
Clueless Gamer coming at you once again for a look at another revered and hated video game – Renegade – which pops in the charts at #16 on Cracked.com’s List of the 20 Worst NES titles of all time. My first thought on researching this game was – why is it on a bad list? It has action, fighting, suspense,…
Clueless Gamer coming at you once again with my review of Hudson Hawk – which Cracked Writer Seanbaby placed at number 17 on the worst games for the NES. When you make a movie there are elements you need – good actors, a decent screenplay, plot, emotional connection, and I forgot the fifth element… Hudson Hawk was an “ok” movie made…
My experience with Nintendo Power is recent. I subscribed the last 2-3 years of its existence, and I keep the last issue as a collector item. That said, I never read any of the first issues of the magazine that started circulating in 1988. If you are like me, you can now read the first 13 years of the magazine…
Hey there everyone, Clueless Gamer here! It’s nice to be here on VITNO with you all – I cannot believe how much FUN I had playing Platoon! for the Nintendo Entertainment System! Let’s Take a peek at what I found… Platoon – a game with a great title and a nod to one of the greatest movies ever made, ironically,…
Once again hailing from the depths of Spain, The Mojon Twins are back with another stellar homebrew release. Yun is the newest platformer to hit the Nintendo NES, and best of all it has been released online for free. The game puts you in control of bubble blowing demon tasked with filling the pantry of its sushi restaurant. This unusual…
[youtube qAGVilt3Rls nolink] The ‘NES Classic Edition’ is causing a commotion in the retro gaming community. While it is “not da saaame” as playing on the original hardware, the modern minified version is on the Christmas list of *everybody* probably because it is from Nintendo and it looks exactly like the original console. However, according to a recent article on…
We are already used to the ‘Flashback’ consoles featuring Atari, Intellivision and Colecovision. Some of these are already launching its 6th edition. Out of blue, Nintendo has just announced that they also decided to join the retro gaming nostalgia club, launching the NES Classic Edition, a palm-sized NES console packaged with an HDMI cable, an AC adapter and one NES…
With the launch of Pokemon Go for iPhone and Android in many countries, the Internet has been flooded with all sorts of news about the game, with people playing the game everywhere. All that buzz made me think about the first Pokemon games – Red and Blue, released for the Gameboy in 1996. Yes, that is 20 years ago, which…
After 20 years, the CD copy / homebrew protection on the Sega Saturn has been cracked. A very clever reverse engineer known as Professor Abrasive has managed to dump the 64kB ROM of the CD subsystem processor and figured out the byzantine copy protection code and how it interacts with the Video CD slot. A proper announcement of this is…
A new classic gaming contest has been announced over at highscore.com. This time, the goal is to crack previous high score trophies on Atari (2600, 5200, 7800, 400/800/XL/XE, Lynx, Jaguar, ST) Colecovision PC Engine / TG-16 Nintendo (NES/Famicom, Super NES, N64, Gameboy, GBC, Virtual Boy) Arcade / MAME This contest has some truly awesome prizes, including an X-Arcade Dual Stick,…
