A glut of poorly made games for the Atari 2600 killed the marketplace ... on toy shelves instead of in the electronics department. The NES quickly became a defining part of 1980s culture ...

Mint condition games for classic retro consoles like the Nintendo Entertainment System are both rare and valuable.

Capcom didn't really go out with a bang with this final NES Mega Man game, then, but it did create one final enjoyable entry on the console which birthed the series. And a 'just good' Mega Man is ...

Tengo Project’s recent games (such as the pitch-perfect revamps of SNES standouts Wild Guns and Pocky & Rocky) are remakes in the way that John Carpenter’s The Thing is a remake. Is the ...

If a game can make Urban Champion seem fun, like this one does, then it must be good. The first one must have done reasonably well, as here we had a sequel. NES Remix 2 actually had less featured ...

People had a lot of fun playing the NES at home. Well, at least when they weren’t getting frustrated by a gaming experience. Not every Nintendo game was a cakewalk. Some were quite difficult ...

Really, really good. Sunsoft's Batman ... full of deep gameplay and immense difficulty. But while action games on the NES are a dime a dozen, it's this very fact that made Batman stand out ...

What’s the quickest way to turn one game into ... RetroPie into an NES cartridge and call it Pi Cart. This elegant little build requires no soldering — provided you have good cable management ...

Rescue Rangers also ratcheted the difficulty down quite a bit, making it a good experience to share with a less-skilled partner. Despite their popularity, cooperative games were rarity on the NES ...

The problem with a NES that just won’t read a cartridge is the ZIF socket inside the console. Pins get bent, and that spring-loaded, VCR-like front loader assembly is the main point of failure ...

A new set of profile icons is available through Nintendo Switch Online, this time based on the NES puzzle game Yoshi.