Picture February 1989. The NES is already the hottest box under TVs across the country, but football games on it still look and play like
Ask two NES racing fans to name the console’s defining racer and you’ll get two different answers depending on how old they were in 1988.
Two kids, one jeep each, one cramped TV screen between them. That’s Jackal on a weekend afternoon in 1988: grenades flying past the edge of
Somewhere in a box of forgotten Game Boy carts, there’s a decent chance one of them has a potato on the label, dodging a butcher
Picture flipping past Duck Hunt and Mega Man 2 on a toy store shelf in 1989 and landing on a cartridge that tells your fortune.
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
Picture flipping open the March 1991 issue of Nintendo Power. The cover is a mech standing upside down on a ceiling, guns blazing, with a
Picture Mario without his cape and without his jump. That’s Wrecking Crew. He shows up on launch day in 1985 carrying a hammer instead, and
Pop Kung Fu into an NES in October 1985 and you got a guy named Thomas punching his way up five floors of a temple
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