'Mina The Hollower', the next game from 'Shovel Knight's creator is an original 2D action game with tons of old-school charm.

TL;DR: This HD projector is also a retro gaming console with 36,000+ games, Android 11, and two wireless controllers — all for $99.99 (reg. $149.99). This is not a drill. Someone decided to take a full-on HD movie projector, cram 36,000+ retro games into it, toss in Android 11, and sell it for under...

Microsoft has announced that a new “Retro Classics” collection is now available to Game Pass subscribers. Reminiscent of the Nintendo Switch Online classic games library, the collection includes Pitfall, Grand Prix, and more than 50 other Activision titles from the 1980s and 1990s. It’s not as many ...

As the NES nears the 40th anniversary of its U.S. release, the homebrew scene around it is still putting out some killer games. Hey all, Ernie here with a piece from David Buck, who isn’t posting as much these days, but I hear he’s been renting the underground bunker at Tedium HQ to develop some top...

A great modern update of a classic NES brawler is free now on the Epic Games Store, if you act fast to claim it.

Nostalgia for video games seems to be strongest for those played during childhood – at least for Nintendo Switch players

This week, for the Over/Under post, we have a person with whom I share many things. Between them, they are: *NIX systems fountain pens journaling Star Wars Retro gaming Let’s welcome Mr R.L. Dane! Below are the topics I picked up for him. ZFS In the Linux world particularly, ZFS is criminally underr...

Eve Upton-Clark writing for Fast Company: ‘It’s Like Their Escape’: Retro Gaming Is Back Thanks to Gen Z Low-tech holds nostalgic appeal and may even offer a solid antidote to our increasingly fast-paced tech-driven society. For 78% of those polled, one reason they enjoy using retro

Atari-branded "smartwatches" with classic games are coming this summer, and you can pre-order now. They don't seem to have many features other than the games—Pong, Breakout, Centipede and Missile Command—but at $80 it's not like you're expecting Apple Watches here. Show your love of retro gaming, ri...

The Analogue 3D console was originally scheduled for release in 2024, then Q1 2025, and today, the company announced its $249.99 reimagining of the Nintendo 64 with 4K output and Bluetooth controller support is scheduled to ship “by July 2025.” The retro game system was announced at the start of las...

Star of Providence is like a retro game I would have loved as a kid. But the roguelike bullet hell shooter is also a modern twin-stick shooter, and the melding of the two eras results in a fun, fast, and challenging experience. In Star, you control a ship and explore randomly generated dungeons. As ...

Cheap, unreliable ceramic APU resonators lead to "constant, pervasive, unavoidable" issues.

Limited Run Games has apologized for a potential issue with two games it has offered on NES carts — Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland and Piopow — that could cause damage to the cartridges or to NES consoles. The statement follows a Time Extension report about the games. In a statement emailed to cust...

If the idea of emulating a PC on a Nintendo Entertainment System sounds like a torturous exercise in proving Turing completeness and the very opposite of fun, console yourself with knowledge that it's the oldest PC. Behold NES86. The goal of this project is to emulate an Intel 8086 processor and sup...

Here is an e-reader device that can also double up as a retro game console. No matter how weird that might sound though such a device is indeed in the making. The basic idea behind such a device is to let users play games while also catching up on some serious reading as well. For […] <p>The post In...

clever and challenging physics NES platformer, made using the author's own programming language for NES development #

Play timeless classics on a modern TV with the Atari 7800+ HDMI Retro Console at Amazon for 22% off.

Personal science is the practice of systematically observing and experimenting on yourself to gain insights into your health, habits, and performance. It can help you make informed decisions, improve well-being, and optimize your daily life. The post Personal Science: Self-Experimentation from Quant...

Nintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailer by Nintendo of America on youtube.com My first Nintendo was the NES, followed by the GameBoy, the Nintendo 3DS and then the Wii. It's been close to 20 years since my last purchase of a Nintendo console but I've been thinking about a Switch for a bit... With the...

TL;DR: Play 70,000+ games on a retro console that's available for $99.99 (reg. $159). Remember the days of mashing buttons, dodging pixelated enemies, and yelling at the screen when your sibling cheated at Street Fighter II? Those glory days are back, but now in 4K with the Super Console X2 Pro. — R...

TL;DR: Revisit the classics and stream modern hits with the Kinhank Super Console X2 Pro, featuring retro video games and free shipping for $99.99 (reg. $159). Remember when multiplayer gaming meant elbowing your sibling on the couch instead of yelling into a headset? — Read the rest The post This r...

Jet Set Willy is a sprawling 8-bit classic requiring the player to tidy up his own vast mansion, infested with monsters after a party gone wrong. Pixel for pixel, every screen now fits on a modern 4K display, and Retro Games Look posted a video showing all of them animated just as in the game. — Rea...

TL;DR: The Kinhank Super Console X2 Pro Retro Gaming Emulator and Streaming Console and delivers 70,000+ retro games for $99.99 and ships free. Just plug it in, pick a classic, and play. Looking for the perfect gift for the gamer in your life who still talks about the "good old days"? — Read the res...

Over at Retro Game Corps, Russ Crandall put the new M4 Mac mini through its paces to see how it handled videogame emulation. As Crandall’s video demonstrates, even the base model version of Apple’s tiny Mac did very well: Crandall walks viewers through the basics of setting up Emulation Station Desk...

Louie Mantia has been making beautiful icons for many years, both as one of the owners of icon design studio Parakeet and as personal side projects. Recently, two of Mantia’s personal projects caught my eye because they combine my love of classic games with the technology I use every day. The first ...

In the NES era, if you thought of Capcom, you probably thought of Mega Man.

The live-streamed saga featured several nail-biters, including a color-palette glitch that made the rapidly falling blocks even harder to see

Dogplayingtetris blasts past 3,300-line rollover in two-hour, 29M-point endurance test.

It’s hard to believe Nintendo’s Classic Edition consoles are already this old. | Image: Nintendo Japan Somehow, Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition console is already almost eight years old, while the Super Nintendo Classic Edition is about to turn seven. That’s apparently old enough for Nintendo to anno...

8BitDo’s Retro Keycaps include options for both ANSI and ISO layouts. | Image: 8BitDo 8BitDo is now selling a set of keycaps featuring the same Nintendo Entertainment System-inspired design as those used on the Retro Mechanical Keyboard it debuted last July. While the keyboard is now available in fo...