Seemingly Unbeatable 30-Year-Old ‘Q*Bert’ Score Finally Toppled
For nearly three decades Rob Gerhardt’s Q*Bert score of 33,273,520 million points has been an untoppable, seemingly insurmountable goal. Records for other classic arcade games have been toppled and...
View Article‘It’s So Bad’: Watch Today’s Teens Wrangle With The NES Power Glove
For some time now, The Fine Bros. have been subjecting teens to old tech like the NES and Game Boy. Generally the goal of these videos is to angry up us old-timers still nostalgic for four-button...
View ArticleGaming Envy: Watch 6 Impossible Classic Gaming Challenges Get Destroyed In...
Most 8-bit games didn’t eff around, but there were certain classic gaming moments that took Nintendo to the next level. These challenges weren’t just though, they seemed to be impossible. There’s a...
View ArticleMario Almost Had A Centaur Suit? 13 Things You Might Not Know About ‘Super...
2015 marks the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. 3, which arguably still stands as the best game in the legendary Mario series. It’s almost impossible to explain how much bigger, deeper and more...
View ArticleCloud Originally Had Slicked-Back Hair? 14 Facts You May Not Know About...
This week saw the release of the long-awaited Final Fantasy XV demo, which has been quite well-received and seems to be reviving interest in the Final Fantasy series after a rough stretch of years. So,...
View ArticleThe Creators Of GTA Made A Kirby Title? The 7 Most Bizarre Games Nintendo...
Nintendo games have a reputation for being a bit predictable. Bowser kidnaps the Princess, Mario retrieves her, bottomless pits are jumped, rinse, repeat. That said, sometimes even Nintendo colors...
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Mew Wasn’t Supposed To Be In The Game? 13 Must-Catch Facts About ‘Pokémon Red...
Pikachu and pals have had some impressive staying power. When Pokémon first exploded in the late-90s, most pundits pegged it as just another fad. That year’s Pogs or Tickle Me Elmo. 17 years and 270...
View ArticleGaming Gold: The 10 Most Valuable NES Games Ordinary Gamers Might Actually Own
Stories about lucky folks selling old video games for unfathomable sums of money make the rounds on a fairly regular basis, but these feel-good stories can be a bit deceptive. Usually, when you hear...
View ArticleGaming Gold: The 10 Most Valuable Super Nintendo Titles You May Actually Own
Stories about lucky folks selling old video games for unfathomable sums of money make the rounds on a fairly regular basis, but these feel-good stories can be a bit deceptive. Usually, when you hear...
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The Ghosts Are Just Guys Under Sheets? 12 Delectable Facts About Arcade...
35 years ago today, Pac-Man first waka waka waka-ed its way into Japanese arcades, and it’s nearly impossible to overstate the game’s influence. Pac-Man was the first game to feature power-ups, and...
View ArticleWatch Today’s Teens Try (And Fail Miserably) To Survive ‘Contra’ Without The...
Listen, like all adults, I love to see teenagers suffer. Damn them and their lack of mortgage payments and ability to stay thin and attractive eating nothing but 7-Eleven taquitos. That said, I have...
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You Can’t Do A Real Barrel Roll In The Game? 10 High-Flying Facts About The...
After spending several years on the shelf, Nintendo officially unveiled the next big entry in the Star Fox series at this year’s E3. With Star Fox Zero only months away, now would seem to be a perfect...
View ArticleFrom Tomato Cans To Mike Tyson: The Definitive ‘Punch-Out!!’ Fighter Power...
We already listed off some interesting facts about Punch-Out!!, so we’re instead doing a power ranking today of the top 20 boxers from the Punch-Out series (I’ll be saving keystrokes and dropping the...
View ArticleThere’s A Way To Skip The Game’s Hardest Levels And Other Toadally True Facts...
Ah, Battletoads; the series wasn’t as big as Super Mario and Mega Man in its day, but seemingly everybody of a certain age spent chunk of their childhood trying, and failing miserably, to get anywhere...
View ArticleRanking All 30 ‘Black Box’ Nintendo Games In Honor Of The NES’ 30th Birthday
Today marks 30 years since the release of the American Nintendo Entertainment System. In celebration of three decades of Nintendo gaming goodness, I thought I’d rank every early “black box” NES game....
View ArticleA New Browser App Magically Turns Classic NES Games Into Amazing 3D Dioramas
Want to look at your favorite 8-bit NES classics in a whole new way? Well, now you can thanks 3DNes Emulator, a new browser app that somehow magically transforms classic 8-bit games into polygonal 3D...
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