It feels like a Majora’s Mask kind of holiday season! A few days ago, we reported on the discovery of hidden N64 Microphone support in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. Now, another feel-good story from the land of Termina has made its way to my desk, starring one of…
Leave it to hackers and modders to discover the darndest things about our favorite games. In a new video posted by Skawo on YouTube, it’s been discovered that The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask has support for the N64’s microphone peripheral. For those unaware, Nintendo released a microphone for its…
Here we go again, folks. As 2024 finally comes to a close, the Switch 2 rumor mill is running at full speed as we all anxiously await any official announcement from Nintendo about their next console. While Nintendo remains tight-lipped, more information continues to trickle out from unofficial sources, such…
You may not be aware, but Nintendo of Japan has a line of collectible controller button keychains that resemble the Famicom and NES controller layouts. Split into three parts, you can basically assemble the full controller by collecting all three and lining them up. It’s cute and fun, if a…
An incredibly rare controller for the Nintendo PlayStation prototype has appeared on Heritage Auctions, marking only the second time such a controller has been listed on the auction site. The “Nintendo PlayStation,” or SNES-CD, was a prototype that emerged from a joint venture between Nintendo and Sony. However, the partnership…
A talented animator has “de-made” cutscenes from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom in the style of Game Boy graphics. The video, created by YouTube user “it”, includes many familiar faces and major events from the game refitted with glorious 8-bit visuals and a monochrome color palette. It’s…
Despite thriving during the ’90s, the F-Zero franchise didn’t see a portable version until the Game Boy Advance era, meaning we missed out on a potential 8-bit take on the franchise. Thankfully, the homebrew Game Boy developer User0x7f is remedying that with a free game that’s heavily inspired by the…
A version of Super Mario 64 is now running on the Game Boy Advance, thanks to a highly talented fan. Joshua Barretto is rewriting the code of the 1996 Nintendo 64 classic for Nintendo’s retro handheld, with a new video showcasing familiar locations such as the Castle Grounds,…
A new app has been released allowing for Game Boy emulation on the Apple Watch. ArcEmu is a $1.99 emulator on the App Store which supports original Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance ROMs. Developer Raffaele D’Amato broke down the app’s features on Reddit, which includes 60fps…
Today’s Nintendo Direct will be the talk of the internet for quite awhile. As surprising as the big first party announcements so late in the Nintendo Switch’s lifespan are, the most interesting announcement came from Nintendo Switch Online. Starting today, Nintendo is adding a 17+ Mature rating section to the…
One of the bigger surprises during today’s Nintendo Direct was the news that Capcom has joined together with Marvel yet again to (re)license some of their arcade classics. For fighting game fans this is fantastic news and no doubt opens the floodgates for “MvC4 When” type discussions, but Capsule Computers…
Nintendo often forgoes family structure for its games and characters, but it’s brought us a fair share of great dads over the years. Each and every one has a part to play in his game and in our memories of the times we’ve spent playing them — some of us…
Thanks to the incredible efforts of The Video Game History Foundation, we may have just discovered Nintendo’s first-ever US commercial. In the early 80s before the NES was released and Nintendo became synonymous with the idea of video games, The Big N needed to go through different publishers and manufacturers…
A professional Super Mario 64 player has managed to finish the Wii Virtual Console version of the game without once pressing the jump button. The impressive feat, achieved by Twitch streamer Marbler from May 17th to May 21st, took 86 hours of game play to complete. YouTuber Bismuth has an…
2005’s Shadow the Hedgehog has gone down in infamy since it first released, being the game that allowed Sonic’s rival to wield guns and say some relatively light cursewords. It turns out it was almost much, much worse. Jason Griffith, the voice actor for both Sonic and Shadow at the…
