T he Game Boy wasn't the first handheld gaming machine, but it was one of the most successful ones on its 1989 release.

You may not remember this, but Nintendo hardware used to be a pretty big deal. The original Game Boy and NES both had remarkable industrial design that, like the Apple II and IBM Thinkpad ...

Back in 1989, Nintendo released Tetris for the NES. This detailed article first explains the mechanics of how Tetris works, then builds an AI to play the game. To understand the mechanics of the ...

Movies and TV shows get rebooted all the time. Video games are no different. While a video game series will sit dormant for a while, that doesn’t mean it’s done. We’ve seen games rebooted in ...

RetroTime has found a good use for the expansion port Nintendo included on the underside of the NES but never utilized. Its NES Hub connects to that port and adds Bluetooth connectivity, allowing up ...

EPIC Games Store gives away games for PC players every week, and this week’s offering is particularly special. Instead of one ...

And of course there have been various Nintendo handhelds as well, such as the Game Boy and DS machines. It has been a long time since the release of the NES, yet it is getting a new game.

Remember, these games aren't individual downloads but are bundled together in the Nintendo Switch Online NES, SNES, GB, N64, Genesis / Mega Drive, and GBA applications, which are 'free' to download.

Shuntaro Furukawa, the head of Nintendo, says that when it comes to first-party games, the company hasn't really changed its ...

which is part of the ninth generation of video game consoles, has outsold the lifetime sales of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), according to VGChartz estimates. The PS5 had sold an ...