Ladies, and gentleman, it’s finally happening. Friday the 13th for the NES is being made into a live-action film.I remember the first time I popped Friday the 13th into my NES. Like most NES games, I died repeatedly, and just assumed that I was just really bad at video games. In my 10 year old mind, there was […]
Retro Video Game Review – Pac-Man on the NES
Villordsutch reviews Pac-Man on the NES…Pac-Man is an all-time classic! Originally released upon the Japanese arcades in May 1980 from video game designer Toru Iwatani, this Namco game then went over to America and flew under the Midway flag come December 1980. As any Scott Pilgrim fan will tell you, our yellow hero went through […]
Retro Video Game Review – Super Metroid
Andy O’Flaherty reviews Super Metroid…Super Metroid. Anybody who owned a SNES back in 1994 is probably nodding their head right now while thinking “yep…. there’s one of the greatest games ever made right there…” Following on from the Game Boy’s Metroid II (1991) and continuing the series established by Metroid (Famicom – 1986), the third outing […]
Why the Switch makes me excited about owning a Nintendo console again
Jordan Jones explains why he is excited over the announcement of the Nintendo Switch…After months of speculation, Nintendo has finally revealed its mysterious new console to the masses. Previously codenamed “NX”, we now have to slowly become used to referring to the device as the “Nintendo Switch”. It’s a catchy name, and also a really […]
The world record speedrun for Super Mario Bros. has been beaten – by 0.05 seconds!
Although it was released in 1985, competition for Super Mario Bros. supremacy still wages on with gamers, and a new world record has been set.A gamer under the name Kosmic claimed on Friday that he’d broken the record held by Darbian of 4 minutes and 57.244 seconds, but then retracted his claim when he noticed […]
Video Game Review – Retroid for the Nintendo Game Boy
Villordsutch reviews Retroid for the Game Boy…The Nintendo Game Boy arrived on the gaming scene back in 1989 and it truly took the world by storm, combined with the Game Boy Color, Light and “Play it Loud” releases the Game Boy to date has sold 118.69 Million Units. What’s more scary if you multiply that […]
Video Game Review – Yun on the Nintendo Entertainment System
Villordsutch reviews Yun on the NES…In today’s Homebrew Reviews we take a look at another NES release, this time from the Mojon Twins who have released a fair few ZX Spectrum games in the past, but are currently producing a number of crowdfunded NES and Megadrive games. Their most recent free release is called Yun and […]
Video Game Review – Alter Ego on the NES
Villordsutch reviews Alter Ego on the NES…In our homebrew reviews today we take a look at game that destroys your mother’s bizarre hysterical rant of, “I can’t be in two places at once!?” and puts it to bed once and for all. Not only that, but it’s possibly the first NES game I’ve ever seen […]
The LEGO Movie producer would like to make a Nintendo All-Stars film
The LEGO Movie did a good job of bringing together several franchises in Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, DC Super Heroes, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and many, many more – and it’s producer would like to do the same thing again with Nintendo.“Zelda, Mario, the whole universe of characters, I feel like could be […]
2016 Won’t Be the Year of VR
Samuel Brace doesn’t think 2016 will be the year of VR… The journey to VR — to real, sustainable VR — has been long. The journey to VR has been torturous. The journey to VR has been exciting and mysterious. The journey to VR has been fuelled — as any notable product is — by […]
