Just last September, Splatoon 3 celebrated its two-year anniversary in a spectacular sendoff with the Grand Festival. This celebration also marked the effective ending of the game, with new monthly Splatfest themes coming to a close. While the new content has slowed down, it hasn’t stopped entirely, as the seasonal…
For older Nintendo fans, Space World 2000 is one of the most pivotal moments in the company’s history. The event where Nintendo not only unveiled the GameCube to the public but showcased Super Mario 128 and some ridiculously high-quality 3D renders for a Legend of Zelda prototype, Space World 2000…
Across Nintendo’s vast reach, Mario has quite a few unique games under his belt. While most people tend to focus on the main series entries, there’s many games that fly under the radar for one reason or another. One such oft-forgotten title is Super Mario Run. This mobile-exclusive platformer doesn’t…
Few games are more cult classic this point than Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective, the DS mystery adventure game by Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi. Despite a huge amount of love from basically everyone who’s ever played it, the game has lied dormant since its release year of 2010 — until…
You know Yasunori Mitsuda, right? The beyond legendary composer of Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, most Xeno- games, and countless others. Well, in what is usually a fun, mildly goofy trivia fact, he also composed music for the original Mario Party: which, as it turns out, was a hellish experience. MP…
Halloween isn’t the only holiday involving spooky spirits worth celebrating — October 30th (yesterday) was the 30th anniversary of the release of the very first Shin Megami Tensei game in Japan on the SNES! The Shin Megami Tensei series, which began with the Japanese launch of Shin Megami Tensei…
Yesterday the Brazilian game development team at QUByte Interactive announced a bunch of projects, many of which are set to bring more obscure classic games to modern systems. Perhaps the most noteworthy of the bunch is none other than Glover, the bizarre Nintendo 64-era platformer from 1998. Judging by the…
Update (11/2/22): The N64 icons for Nintendo Switch Online members are now available for the West, as announced by Nintendo of America via Twitter: #NintendoSwitchOnline + Expansion Pack members! Redeem #MyNintendo Platinum Points to get icons from: ✅#SuperMario 64✅#Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards✅The Legend of #Zelda: Majora's Mask✅#N64 Hardware…
Sakurai may have made waves for Nintendo fans with Kirby but it’s Super Smash Bros. that shot the developer into the mainstream. The first game in the series, released for the Nintendo 64 in 1999, is the next game to be spotlit in Sakurai’s ongoing video series The video covers…
Fan tributes come in all shapes and sizes. Whether it’s a simple piece of fanart, a complex re-imagining featuring multiple animators, or anything in between, passion can bleed through the proverbial canvas to reconnect us with the art we love. And there may be no better example of that than…
It’s almost time to take to the skies as one of the Nintendo 64’s launch games is finally heading to the Nintendo Switch Online’s retro library! Pilotwings 64 was a launch game in Japan, North America, and Europe developed collaboratively between Nintendo EAD and the visual technology group Paradigm Simulation….
Masahiro Sakurai has released the latest video on his YouTube Channel, which chronicles his experiences directing Kirby Super Star for the SNES. The third and final 2D Kirby sidescroller he’d direct, the account is full of tidbits — from Shigeru Miyamoto asking him to implement multiplayer, which indirectly led to…
On September 24th, 1992, SNK launched its second fighting game series in the form of Art of Fighting. Originally pitched as a prequel to the iconic Fatal Fury, the game introduced genre elements like its drainable spirit gauge, graphical sprite scaling, and super attacks. To celebrate its recent anniversary, SNK…
Over the month of September Nintendo has been updating its Switch Online selection of icon elements with a variety of classic NES sprites and hardware images. With October fast approaching, the fourth, and presumably final, wave has landed. The games featured this time are Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Excitebike, and…
A fresh batch of Sega Genesis games have been added to Nintendo Switch Online’s library of classics, and this time around we’ve got a beloved Zelda-like, a quirky platformer, and an action packed sorcery simulator. Check out Beyond Oasis, Earthworm Jim, and Alisia Dragoon in the trailer below! …
