Category: Nintendo News
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…
The once mythical Nintendo/Sony prototype console can now be yours, my deep-pocketed friend! The auction for the console found in 2009 is now live and the current bid is US$23,000. The story started in 2009 when Terry Diebold struck the best luck when he bought a lot of abandoned property of a former Sony executive of an auction and the…
Introduction The awesome Retro Hour podcast, on its episode 190, featured a very long chat with Randy Linden, a seasoned developer who is responsible, among other things, to bring Dragon’s Lair to the Amiga, DOOM to the NES and also the creator of Bleem!, a PlayStation emulator for PC. I’ve found Randy so interesting to listen to, and his contribution…
Here’s one for all you Snes fans out there. Justice Beaver, The Great Timber Tantrum is a new game that is due to be released sometime this year. After doing a little bit of research on Twitter, it seems that this game has been in production since July 2015. Fast forward to 2019 and the game is looking polished, 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…
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…
As a follow up on our previous article, Commodore Computer Club has reached us out to say they had posted a new article with the contents of Nintendo’s takedown request email. First of all, I thank the Commodore Computer Club for their openness about the subject, considering the overall reaction, including ourselves. Some just raising fair questions, others questioning the…
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…
