Did the first piece of NES code ever programmed by Nintendo's late president Satoru Iwata just get sold on Yahoo Auctions? Seems so. For quite a few years now, I've watched (and occasionally pitched ...

The following discussion between two early Konami programmers took place in 2003. It was retrieved from Game Staff List Association Japan, a Japanese website that, among other things, aims to ...

Nintendo Switch Online has been a long time coming and it finally released today at 8 pm PST / 11 pm EST / 4 am BST on September 19. This will be the first time Nintendo has charged for an online ...

Four decades after it became an international sales phenomenon and dominated a crowded games market, the Nintendo Entertainment System – the 8-bit box that gave birth to some of the medium’s biggest ...

Tetris for the NES (the overseas version of the Family Computer) slows down and makes it impossible to continue the game once a certain level is reached. A method was devised to exploit this slowdown ...

In a nutshell: A crafty group of gamers has found a way to slip custom code into unmodified copies of classic puzzler Tetris on the original Nintendo Entertainment System. It's an exploit that opens ...

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Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, Start. It's a powerful string of commands capable of garnering its invoker thirty lives, a gaggle of power-ups or other potent in-game bonuses.

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) library has an incredible selection of games in virtually every genre. The NES redefined how video games were both designed and played for the better, ...