Category: Nintendo News
As an NES aficionado and amateur coder, I recently participated in NESmaker‘s 2019 BYTE-OFF competition. As a VITNO exclusive, I’m offering you the chance to play my submitted NES game — OFFICE HERO! To sweeten the deal, I’m offering prizes to the first few players who can beat the game and find all 8 exits to win the game. What…
NESmaker is a recently launched tool allowing you to create NES games without programming experience. The games created with NESmaker can be flashed in cartridges and played in an original NES console. To celebrate the new home brewers using the tool, the The New 8-bit Heroes have launched Byte-off!, a game designed competition. To enter the compo, the contestant has…
With a demo released back in April, the NES game Alfonzo’s Arctic Adventure started its Kickstarter campaign less than a week ago and already reached and exceeded its goal. Since the Eskimo Bob sequel is already done and playable, the campaign aims to fund the production of the cartridges and the companion swag (boxes, manuals, etc.). Tomas Guinan is already…
Log Jammers is a new arcade sports game developed by Mega Cat Studios for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and PC. Inspired by the ’94 Windjammers, Log Jammers can be explained as an air-hockey (or even Pong!) type of game, but its implementation goes way beyond that. As the name suggests, the players stay on top of rolling logs while they throw…
It looks like Nintendo is increasing its actions against the emulator sites, with new lawsuits against LoveROMs and LoveRETRO, two websites that host ROM files. Although this is not the first time that this is happening, seeing Nintendo stepping up its game makes us believe that the ROM sites are making a dent in Nintendo’s revenues. It is understandable that since…
UPDATE: Please head over our updated version of the video/article: https://www.vitno.org/how-to-play-retro-games-on-the-amazon-fire-tv-stick-4k-2019/ There are probably 12,982 ways to play retro games using old and modern machines (and counting), but it is always newsworthy to find yet another one. The Amazon Fire Stick is a device that is meant to let you stream video directly to your TV, but thanks to RetroArch, you…
Sam’s Journey is a high quality platform game for the C64 that has achieved critical acclaim since its launch in late December for pushing the old 8-bit PC to its technical limits while at the same time providing a great gaming experience that more than matches that what is offered by other 8-bit classics such as Mayhem in Monsterland and…
We covered Clive Townsend’s upcoming Saboteur 3 back in June, which I am sure you are all very excited to hear about. It seems there is more good News on the horizon, with an announcement on Facebook not long ago by SimFabric Studio that Sabotuer will be heading it’s way to the Nintendo Switch console. The Switch version will be…
It was announced the 2018 edition of GBJAM, a game development competition where the participants will have to create a complete video game that keeps Gameboy’s characteristics – notably the use of 4 colours only on a screen with the resolution of 160×144 pixels. It is not a retro gaming-only competition since the rules allow the use of any modern development…
The gaming market is awash of retro gaming hardware solutions, providing the ability to play original cartridge games natively up-scaled from their original resolution to allow them to look good on modern HD televisions. Playmaji is looking to take this a step further with the impending launch of POLYMEGA, a modular retro gaming system that supports multiple cartridge based and…
