The NES was Nintendo’s smash hit console of the 1980s, the international version of their Japanese Famicom system. It wasn’t a particularly complex device, so it was the subject of …read more
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In a resurfaced interview via Games Radar the legendary video game developer Shigeru Miyamoto talks about The Legend of Zelda 2 and while the game was Miyamoto’s idea, it was developed by another team at Nintendo. While it is not as highly regarded as other games in the franchise Miyamoto looks back and considers the… Read More »Miyamoto: Zelda 2 was “sort of a failure” and Link to the Past is…
Displaced Gamers has yet another fascinating “Behind the Code” dive into the workings of an NES game, this time the original Final Fantasy. (30 minutes) We’ve linked videos in this series many times before, but it’s wuite a doozy this time. Final Fantasy is known to have a number of combat bugs. Critical Hit chances … Continue reading "Displaced Gamers on Final Fantasy I Combat & Bugs"
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Nintendo has added three more NES games to the ever expanding Nintendo Switch Online service library. The following games are included in the update: The Tower of Druaga (1985), PAC-MAN (1988), and Mendel Palace (1989). Two of the three games were developed by Namco, and Mendel Palace, although developed by Game Freak, was originally published by Namco… Read More »3 NES games added to Switch…
El sistema era tan sencillo como ingenioso. [Ver vídeo en X] @Eldatofreak
Ver post completo: Así funcionaba la pistola de la Nintendo NES.
The ACEMAGIC Retro X5 is a mini PC with an AMD Ryzen AI HX 370 Strix Point processor, support for 2.5 GbE LAN and WiFi 7 networking, and support for DDR5-5600 memory and PCIe 4.0 storage. What really makes it weird though is that the little computer looks like the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game […]
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A couple of years ago gamedev channel NesHacker did a video on how everything in your typical NES game is really a pile of state machines, concurrent ones, nested ones, bunches and bunches of them. If you have any interest in NES coding at all, it’s worth a look. (8½ minutes) The chief difference between … Continue reading "NES Games & State Machines"
I recall having known that Wario's Woods was the final licensed game released for the Nintendo Entertainment System ("NES") in North America. But I learned something extra about that previously-known fact in Marc Normadin's article about Wario's Woods for NES at Retro XP.
Because of the late release date, Wario’s Woods is also the lone NES game to be slapped with an ESRB rating. It’s a little…
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