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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘nes’
Today in History: April 28th 1989 – Super Mario Bros 2 Hits the Nintendo Entertainment System
April 27th, 2013 
triverse 
Posted in Articles, News, Retro, Wii 
Tags: action, adventure, all-stars, bowser, cart, classic, game boy advance, gba, nes, re-release, retro, SNES, super, super mario bros, super nintendo, Virtual Console, wii 
No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Articles, News, Retro Tags: action, adventure, april 27th 1990, castlevania, classic, dracula, konami, nes, nintendo, quest, retro, simon's quest No Comments »
Mega Man 4 available on 3DS eShop now
April 25th, 2013 Nickerous Capcom continues releasing the classic NES Mega Man titles today with Mega Man 4. Originally released in 1992 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, this version of Mega Man introduces new bad guy, Dr. Cossack. Personally, I never played this version in the 90s, and when I did I felt that the game was missing something. [...]
Posted in 3DS, News, Retro Tags: 3DS eShop, capcom, classic, classic games, eshop, mega man, nes, NES classic, nintendo, nintendo 3ds, Virtual Console No Comments »
Wacky Wednesday – Galoob Thanks Canada
March 20th, 2013 Modern Zorker Copyright law in the United States is pretty explicit when it comes to defining what third-parties are allowed to do with regards to content said third party did not create. While copyright law makes provisions for fair use in the creation of new or derivative works based on original material, the owner and the would-be [...]
Posted in Articles, News, Retro Tags: camerica, canada, cheat, codemasters, galoob, game genie, genie, lawsuit, nes, nintendo, wacky wednesday No Comments »
Capcom embraces the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console
March 9th, 2013 Nickerous Capcom has already released Mega Man 1 and 2 on Nintendo’s Virtual Console for the 3DS. They have pledged that the other 4 Mega Man games will be released as well. Mega Man 3 has been announced for next week, March 14th. Now, we are hearing reports that Capcom’s classic arcade titles are being rated [...]
Posted in 3DS, News, Retro Tags: 1943, arcade, capcom, e3, gun.smoke, gunsmoke, mega man, nes, nintendo, nintendo 3ds, Virtual Console 1 Comment »
Wacky Wednesday – Konami’s Nintendo Hack
March 6th, 2013 Modern Zorker This week’s Wacky Wednesday offering doesn’t focus on any specific hardware or software, but rather the ingenious way one company hacked their way through Nintendo’s old third-party-software regulations. A round of applause for Konami, if you please, for creating Ultra Games…
Posted in Articles, News, Retro Tags: konami, nes, nintendo, nintendo entertainment system, retro, ultra games, wacky wednesday No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in News, Retro Tags: action, adventure, development, homage, indie, knil, nes, nintendo, retro, role playing game, rpg No Comments »
Got An iPad or iPhone and Love Nintendo?
March 2nd, 2013 triverse Following up the success of the recent game collection apps article on Android devices, I thought it would be a good idea to listen the feedback from readers across the Internet and do a Nintendo centric version of the article. Here I have collected several Apps off of iTunes that cater to a different Nintendo [...]
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!
Posted in News, Retro Tags: 2d, action, ad, beat em up, fighting, nes, nintendo, retro, river city ransom No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in News, Retro, Wii Tags: action, advance, adventure, all-stars, classic, entertainment, gba, nes, nintendo, retro, super mario bros 3, super nintendo, system, three, wii No Comments »
