Category: Games Consoles
[youtube UsfhIAHE5k0 nolink] Even after 30 years, your Nintendo Entertainment System is still up to the task, right? What if you can put your hands on a brand new game cartridge? You are lucky today! Sly Dog Studios have finally released their long-awaited puzzle platformer Mad Wizard: A Candelabra Chronicle on cartridge for the 8-bit system. RetroZone is selling this…
[youtube EJbB10Z-6fo nolink] Back in January the ‘Games That Weren’t‘ website announced that a copy of Last Ninja 2 on the Konix Multisystem had been found. Fast forward to February and now the GTW team have received an update that one disk of the game has been saved and that now the game is playable on an emulator! An amazing…
“Zombi Terror” is an adventure game, divided in two parts, where you can move through the different locations and make special actions by the options displayed on screen, and with a “battle system” based on “dice rolling”, just like some rpg-board games. In addition to the amount of graphics, Kabuto Factory have composed an audio soundtrack to ambient the game…
RetroCollect has published a second article entitled “Cart Wars” by MEGABITES. This time around his coverage starts from the 90’s. “Progressing through the early 1990s, new cartridge innovations served to not only extend the capabilities of the home console, but also those of the handheld. The Gameboy, the Game Gear and the Atari Lynx – each were noted for their…
For some, it doesn’t seem to be an significant achievement, but the cartridge allow the video game industry to jump from the dedicated systems, like Pong, to all-purpose consoles. FastCompany website has published an impressive article about the invention of the game cartridge, written by Benj Edwards. According to his own website Vintage Computing and Gaming, Benj started his research…
We reported few days ago that an eBay auction for this rare Nintendo game was already reaching US$100,000. It seems now more people will be able to go back in the game. Gamespot reported today, and you can verify yourself, that the bids went down to *only* US$32,000. Also, the bids are now only opened to pre-approved bidders, which hints…
It is well known and accepted in the gaming community that Stadium Events is the rarest licensed NES game available. According to the seller description, in 1987 Nintendo purchased the rights to the Family Fun Fitness pad from Bandai as well as the rights to Stadium Events. After the purchase, Nintendo ordered a recall and almost *none* of these titles…
[youtube lZK3Rmerg1I nolink] RetroGameModz made a video about the adjusting the CD-32 to read CD-R discs. In the video you can see: The disassembly. Identification of parts. Explanation of the signal paths. Schematics & block diagrams. The servo system. And the adjustment of FEG, TEG, FEB, TEB and laser power. Website: RetroGameModz
Retro Games Collector website has published an extensive review of the Super Retro Trio console, which plays games from 5 consoles right out of the box (Genesis, Mega Drive, SNES, SFC and NES) – The Trio in the name is more related to the three cartridges slots, I assume :) Pre-unboxing impressions are good, the box shows what looks like…
[youtube mpXRSk4JyCU nolink]The Super 8 bit is a new hand-assembled game console that can play all your favorite NES and Famicom games. It uses the original CPU and PPU chips for pixel perfect gameplay and 99.8% compatibility. The Super 8 bit has video, audio, and reliability improvements over the original systems in a compact form factor. Imported $20-$80 clone systems…
