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Have you ever stopped to think about the soul of a Goomba when you crush or burn its body?
Celebrate the 40th (or 41st ) birthday of Nintendo’s game-changing video game console by putting together a perfect paper replica.
38 years ago today, the Famicom everyone knows and loves went on sale, but what about its often forgotten upgrade?
In all its 35 years of existence, we’ve never seen this classic Nintendo Famicom/NES game being played quite like this.
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No one needs to wait their turn to play as Luigi thanks to an epiphany about the Nintendo classic.
Beautiful paintings of glitchy NES screens will star in Tokyo art gallery through December.
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Famicom Mini Weekly Shonen Jump 50th Anniversary Version is all about manga/anime games, but that could spell disaster for North America.
27 years after the first 8-to-16-bit Nintendo video game migration, it might be time to do it all over again, so we called the company to see if they’d give us any more info.
Super Mario Bros. 3, Mega Man 2, Metroid, and Final Fantasy all included in save state-equipped device.
Vietnamese hobbyist Trần Vũ Trúc, using mostly undisclosed programming wizardry, introduced this Firefox browser-based emulator that adds a pixelized 3-D effect to many of the NES’s best games.
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