Nintendo was still new to the sequel rituals when they released Super Mario Bros 2 on the NES, and boy did they go away from the norm for what a sequel was supposed to be. Being almost a complete departure from the original NES title, in Japan the title used for the US SMB2 was [...]
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Today in History: April 28th 1989 – Super Mario Bros 2 Hits the Nintendo Entertainment System
April 27th, 2013 
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Today in History: April 27th 1990 – Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest on the Nintendo Entertainment System
April 27th, 2013 triverse Taking place seven years after the original Castlevania, this installment takes a rather large departure from what fans knew from the first title. Simon is on a pilgrimage to visit his family’s resting place and meets a lady that tells him that Dracula has placed a curse on the Belmont family (bummer). Unlike the first [...]
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Ducktales Remastered Announced by Capcom Coming to Major Consoles
March 22nd, 2013 triverse Ducktales is a cartoon that I grew up watching as a kid, and was the main reason I wanted Disney Channel but my parents were apprehensive to adding to the monthly cable bill (I had to do chores and odd jobs to pay for it). When Ducktales, and its sequel, hit the original Nintendo Entertainment [...]
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Knill: A New Indie NES Title WIP
March 2nd, 2013 triverse Retro titles around here are all great and fun but we have tried to keep away from simply flooding the site with yet more reviews of titles that have been covered time and time again on countless other sites in favor of focusing on finding original content we think our readers will enjoy. Original content [...]
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Mirror of Fate Demo Now on Nintendo 3DS eShop
February 28th, 2013 triverse Konami have been a dependable gaming company since they started back on the original NES in the 80′s thanks to mainstays such as Contra and Castlevania. Castlevania is one of those rare titles that has hit nearly every console released since it debuted (can you name the few systems that DID NOT receive a Castlevania [...]
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Retro Game of the Month – River City Ransom (NES)
January 30th, 2013 Modern Zorker This month marks the 1990 US release of one of the greatest 8-bit titles ever conceived on the venerable NES. We’ve got some classic gaming magazine ads to offer for your enjoyment as we celebrate River City Ransom’s twenty-third birthday!
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Today in History: January 23rd, 1990 – Super Mario Bros Conquers the World on the NES
January 23rd, 2013 triverse What can really be said about Super Mario Bros 3 for the Nintendo Entertainment System that hasn’t been said already? This was Nintendo’s unofficial swan song of Mario games for the NES that really showed that the system still had “oomph” when taking on more powerful systems such as the Sega Genesis and NEC Turbo [...]
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Code of Princess Coming to Nintendo 3DS eShop (Spiritual Guardian Heroes Folks)
January 3rd, 2013 triverse Miss the days of Final Fight and Guardian Heroes and that whole beat the hell out of everything in front of you type game play? So does Atlus who are releasing Code of Princess onto the Nintendo 3DS eShop this week.
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Gunman Clive Hits Nintendo 3DS eSHop Today
January 3rd, 2013 triverse Fans of Contra have been hard pressed for a new title in the style of Konami’s classic series- that wait is now over thanks to Gunman Clive on the Nintendo 3DS eShop.
Today in History: December 31st, 1998 – Battletanx Blows Up The Nintendo 64
December 31st, 2012 triverse Battletanx on the Nintendo 64 may not have set sales records, it certainly did open, even if ever so briefly, a new genre of gaming that few companies jumped in on (Sega did with Alien Front Online which was “similar”). The year is 2001, a virus has wiped out the feminine side of the human [...]
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