Since almost the day the NES Classic was announced, we’ve been anticipating the arrival of a Super Nintendo equivalent. The Super Nintendo Entertainment system has every bit as much nostalgia packed into it as the NES. Now, sources are saying that the micro-console is indeed on the way and scheduled to hit shelves for Christmas, sources close to Nintendo have told Eurogamer. According...
Earlier this month, video game archivist Byuu stated that the USPS lost nearly $10,000 worth of rare Super Nintendo games when his package went missing and actually appeared to be stolen. One week later after the most recent developments, we have a happy ending to this story. According to Byuu, he was contacted by the USPS Consumer Affairs office after the widespread coverage of his...
A couple years ago, a keyboard was just a keyboard. You might get a few macro keys or some futuristic plastic styling around the edges, but underneath it all, keyboards were mostly the same. Now, we’re awash in a biblical-level flood of mechanical keyboards bearing a variety of different-colored switches, RGB LEDs, programmable functions, and more. PC component manufacturers known for...
A quarter of a century since the Super Nintendo has passed. Often cited as one of the most popular and beloved consoles in video game history, the Super Nintendo first hit the North American market on Aug. 24, 1991, and even after all this time, its allure still pulls in gamers from the youngest generation. Why is that? Well, I’m of the belief that there is just something really...
I can’t be the only one who still plays Super Nintendo games. If the NES brought video games to geeks everywhere, the SNES brought gaming to the mainstream. It’s highly regarded as the best system ever, home to some of the best games in the medium, including Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and others. The only inconvenience about playing the system today is...
Just last week, Nintendo announced the NES Classic, a microconsole with 30 built-in games ready to play. While you can’t add games to it, it’s packed with classics and looks like it’s going to be more than worth the $60 price tag. We’ve already talked about the games we wish were on the NES Classic, but we got started thinking – a SNES Classic has to be coming along, too, right? It...
The Super Nintendo games on the New Nintendo 3DS are getting more and more tempting with each passing release! Last we saw one of Capcom’s best in Mega Man 7, and this week comes a fan-favorite hit from Konami. Yes, the company does indeed still publish video games… occasionally. Legend of the Mystical Ninja is the only game from the popular Ganbare Goemon series to be localized back...
I've been around the JRPG genre long enough to know what I like. Walking into the Peachtree City Microplay back in the mid-1990s and randomly renting a game titled Final Fantasy III forever altered the course of my gaming career. To this day, I am comfortable in saying that if I ever had to pick up gaming as a part time hobby to focus on kids, jobs, and other adult responsibilities, I...
Nintendo fans have been nagging for the chance to play Super Nintendo games on their 3DS handhelds through the Virtual Console for a long time, and Nintendo is finally granting them the ability to do so. During today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, Nintendo announced plans to bring SNES games to the New Nintendo 3DS. Be warned! The original Nintendo 3DS will not be able to support...
The Legend of Zelda Producer Eiji Aonuma has a lot of impressive games on his resume, namely every single Legend of Zelda game since Ocarina of Time. However, the game that put him on Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto’s radar was a fabulous little adventure title called Marvelous: Another Treasure Island. Fans have eagerly been wanting to play this game for two decades, and now they finally...