T he Game Boy wasn't the first handheld gaming machine, but it was one of the most successful ones on its 1989 release.

Yet, most gamers in 1991 didn't quite think so, as it never really took off, getting lost amidst a sea of great NES games. It was also followed by the hyped SNES around the time of its release and ...

The first model of the NES wasn’t all that great; just ask any one of the millions ... pieces of hardware that can play every single NES game, and even with years of hacking NES-on-a-chip ...

Graveyard Dude is now available in physical form for NES, but only 200 copies can be purchased before it returns to the great ...

The interactive documentary is mostly a story about how hard it is to improve Tetris — and it’s missing key versions ...

If one company was known for its amazing licensed NES games, it's Sunsoft ... Growing up, my neighbors seemed to have all of the great games, when we could only afford one here and there.

SMB2 offers greater diversity in graphics and gameplay than the original, making it a great bridge game between the other NES Mario titles. I played Super Mario Bros. 2 for the first time while in ...

The video below goes into great detail on that, and it’s a fascinating lesson in optimization. The game logic itself is coded in assembler, which of course is far more efficient than higher ...

When a games system enters its twilight years, you see accusations of filler and recycling. And that’s the case with Nintendo World Championships NES Edition for the Switch, which slices up 13 classic ...

And of course there have been various Nintendo handhelds as well, such as the Game Boy and DS machines. It has been a long time since the release of the NES, yet it is getting a new game.