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USPS “Lost” $10K Worth of SNES Games Heading for Archival
Amateur game historian Byuu was excited that a collector from Frankfurt, Germany is loaning him 100 vintage SNES games worth approximately $10,000 USD for digital archival. While it crossed the Atlantic ocean safely, once hit arrived at the hands of the United States Postal Service however it got “lost” and…
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Coleco Chameleon to Relaunch on Kickstarter at Lower Price
The Coleco Chameleon originally launched as the Retro VGS and embarked on a very ambitious Indiegogo campaign. Its creators tried to produce a new console which uses cartridges and appeals to retro collectors. Furthermore, the Retro VGS didn’t incorporate any online functionality, or community features like achievements. Instead, it was designed…
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Japanese Gamer Left SNES Powered On For 20 Years to Preserve Saved Game
Nearly five years ago, I dug out the old SNES to satisfy my hankering for some classic Mario. After a few hours of playing Super Mario World, I saved my game, intending to return to it later that evening. I turned the console back on to find that, 22 years…
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See the Never-Released Nintendo Play Station in Action!
The PlayStation 4 is winning the console war, consistently outselling the Xbox One and Wii U, but had a particular historical curiosity progressed as intended, things could be so much different. Back in the late Eighties, Nintendo approached Sony to produce a CD add-on for the Super Nintendo console, which…
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Nintendo No Longer Bringing Back SNES Games to New Consoles?
One of the greatest features of the newer Nintendo consoles of the last couple of generations, has been their efforts to bring classic games from consoles such as the SNES and the Game Boy to their emulated platforms via the consoles app stores. However, after 9-years of doing so, it…
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Twitch Streamer Uses Xbox Rock Band Guitar on Bloodborn
What do you get when you mix a Xbox 360 Rock Band 1 Guitar controller with a PS4 version of Bloodborne? Well, a bit of a headache getting it to work at first, but eventually an epic ‘Guitarborne’ gameplay video, as Twitch streamer bearzly names it. It looks like the…
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Man Plays Super Mario World by Putting a Recorder up His Nose
A man known as Wakou, user of Japanese video sharing site NicoNico, has uploaded a video in which he plays SNES classic Super Mario World by blowing into a recorder with his nose. Wakou mapped each button function to a particular note using a program called Audio Pad. Each note…
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Scientists Turn Mario into an Artificial Intelligence
Scientists from the University of Tübingen in Germany have made Mario, star of the Super Mario games, self-aware, able to think, talk, and learn. The project, called ‘Mario Lives!’, was created to compete in the annual competition run by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and is…
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SNES Emulator Sneaks Onto iOS App Store
Emulators are banned on the iOS App Store, but on a few rare occasions, emulators and other banned apps sneak past Apple’s reviewers and onto the store. That has happened again, this time with a SNES emulator disguised as a file manager. Floppy Cloud just looks like a fairly innocuous…
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Is Emulation the Best Feature of the Nvidia Shield?
Introduction Emulation is a popular pass time for many PC gamers, and in recent year there has been a big increase in GPU horsepower in the mobile market, allowing us to enjoy many classic games on the go, not just on our desktops. The Nvidia Shield is one of the…
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Super Retro Trio Console Launches Next Month
We love a bit of retro gaming from time to time, but since the price of the original Genesis (Mega Drive), NES and SNES consoles is ever increasing, especially for ones in great condition, there needs to be a more cost effective solution. Sure you can emulate, but that’s not…
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Street Fighter Theme Song Goes Perfectly With Fight In NHL
What’s not to love about Ice Hockey? The players have skill, speed, excellent hand eye co-ordination and let’s be honest all Ice Hockey players are usually as tough as a $2 steak. The game is always super fast paced and very physically demanding, so fights are usually a normal thing.…
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Comic Strip Of Classic Snes Game “PLOK” Released
First seen in the classic SNES platform game Plok!, the eponymous hero has been relaunched by creators The Pickford Bros as a regular comic strip. Starting today, and published exclusively on the Zee-3 website, Plok The Exploding Man will follow the adventures of Plok as he wakes up after 20…
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