Generally speaking, writing your own games for retro consoles starts with C code. You’ll need to feed that through a console-specific tool-chain, and there’s certainly going t ...

The original NES hardware wasn’t designed for digital hi-def output. It was designed for the warm, fuzzy, bleeding pixels of a cathode-ray tube.

The Switch 2’s $449 launch price seems steep—until you realize the Atari 2600 would cost $1,012 today. Even the NES and SNES adjusted for inflation hit $503 and $460 respectively—more than ...

The first model of the NES wasn’t all that great; just ask any one of the millions of six-year-olds who independently discovered blowing on a cartridge made it work. The second NES hardware r… ...

3dSen PC is a passion project that reimagines classic NES games by turning them into fully playable 3D voxel dioramas. It’s not just about nostalgia—it's about seeing these beloved games in a ...

You probably never saw the NES as a productivity machine, but some clever developers beg to differ. Hackaday and Ars Technica note Inkbox Software has released a graphical operating system, NESOS ...

Shipments hit 2.3 million units NES Classic discontinued because ‘we don’t have unlimited resources,’ Nintendo says By Samit Sarkar Published Apr 28, 2017 Follow ...

If you want the nostalgia of an old-school NES with the quality and ease of an HDTV, an emulator can take you far. If you want a perfect NES experience, you’ll want to go with the Nestopia UE ...

If you've turned your media center into a video game console but the new school controllers just don't invoke the same feeling of nostalgia, you can easily turn an old NES controller into a USB ...