Every genre on the NES has one rule that never bends. For shoot-’em-ups, it’s this: the screen wants you dead, and you’ll replay the stage
On October 18, 1985, Nintendo put eighteen games on American store shelves and asked a country that had just watched its video game industry collapse
Every kid who got a movie or cartoon game under the tree in the early ’90s remembers the sinking feeling of booting it up and
Halloween always arrived early on the NES. Somewhere around the first week of October, a kid who’d normally beg to play Mario Bros. would dig
You rented the movie, you loved the movie, and then you rented the video game because it had the same face on the box. By
Somebody always has this story: a Game Boy cartridge turns up at a yard sale, a thrift store, the bottom of a junk drawer at
There was a specific feeling that came with the Konami logo flashing on a rental cartridge’s title screen in the late 1980s. It wasn’t a
Ask five NES collectors to name the best platformer on the console and you’ll get five different answers, plus an argument about whether Metroid even
Before EA Sports built an entire business model on annual roster updates, the NES handled sports the way it handled everything else: one cartridge, one
Walk into any American living room in 1989 and there’s a decent chance the exact same ten NES cartridges were stacked next to the TV.