Faxanadu: The NES RPG That Got Its Name From a Word Game
You rented it because the box looked like nothing else on the Blockbuster shelf. A knight standing in front of a tower under a green
September 13, 2026
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The NES Zapper: Nintendo’s Best-Selling Light Gun That Can’t Work on Modern TVs
Every NES household had a version of the same afternoon: someone pointing a plastic ray gun at the television, half-convinced the dog on screen was
September 12, 2026
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Rad Racer: The NES Hit That Sold Nearly Two Million Copies and Still Couldn’t Save Square
Somewhere in a lot of NES collections from 1987 sits a pair of flimsy red-and-blue cardboard glasses that never got their own game case. They
September 12, 2026
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Ranking the 10 Best NES Platformers Ever Made (And the One Nobody Could Actually Find)
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
September 11, 2026
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Double Dragon vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Which NES Game Actually Kept Its Arcade Promise?
Two kids walk into the same video rental counter in the summer of 1989. One grabs Double Dragon. The other grabs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
September 11, 2026
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Tecmo Super Bowl: The NES Game That Made Bo Jackson Nearly Unstoppable
You know the feeling if you had a Sunday afternoon and a working NES sometime around late 1991: someone in your friend group picked the
September 11, 2026
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Ghosts ‘n Goblins: The NES Game That Made You Beat It Twice to Win
You’re eight levels deep into a cardboard-boxed NES cartridge, sword raised, feeling like a real knight for once. A flying red imp swoops in from
September 10, 2026
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Sealed Isn’t Always Sealed: How Graders Catch a Fake Shrink-Wrap Job
You knew a kid whose game stayed in the closet, still wrapped in plastic, untouched since some Christmas in the late 1980s. Nobody dared open
September 9, 2026
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Donkey Kong: The Game Boy Remake That Turned Into a Whole New Game
Somewhere in a bedroom in 1994, a kid slid a new Game Boy cartridge into the slot expecting four levels and a bragging right: I
September 9, 2026
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The Guardian Legend: The NES Game That Couldn’t Decide Which Game It Wanted to Be
Rent this one blind from the video store in 1989, and you had no idea what you were about to load. The box showed a
September 8, 2026
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