Nintendo

This ThinkGeek SNES Controller Looks Swish

Kotaku AU

I’m one of those crazy shut-ins that actually occasionally buys stuff from the WiiWare store and the Virtual Console. I have quite a few SNES games on my Wii, and it never feels quite right playing them with the Wii Classic Controller. Particularly games like Super Metroid or Super Mario World.


April 27, 2012
Retro

How Suicide Made This Japanese Game Developer Famous

Suda51 (Goichi Suda) is one of Japan’s most famous game directors. In the West, this is due to his cult classic PS2/GameCube title, Killer7, or his best-selling Wii series, No More Heroes. In Japan, however, he first became famous for another game entirely: Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special on the Super Famicom.


April 15, 2012
Nintendo

An Exercise Bike Is The Controller For This Mario Kart Mod

Now, this is exergaming with a purpose. Modder Brent Smith of Canada rigged an old exercise bike with some sensors, switches, transistors and the indispensable Arduino microcontroller, turning the whole thing into a Super Nintendo controller for use in Mario Kart.


March 5, 2012
Nintendo

Super Metroid Completed In 12 Minutes!

Kotaku AU

Ever since trying beat my buddy’s records on Super Punch Out!! for the SNES, I’ve loved the idea of speed runs. The Super Metroid speed run is perhaps one of the most hotly contested — now with some new sequence breaking, OmnipotentEntity appears to have gotten the time down to an incredible 12 minutes…


February 29, 2012
Nintendo

New Game For 1991′s Favourite Console

For the folks out there who can still lay hands on a working Super Nintendo system, good news: there’s a new game slated to come your way next year.


December 21, 2011
Nintendo

If Creative Classic Mario Paint’s Theme Had Lyrics, They Might Sound Like This

Retro game lyricist Brentalfloss rings in the holiday season with a musical tribute to the only Super Nintendo game to come bundled with a mouse and a mouse pad. Take that, uDraw!


December 13, 2011
Nintendo

A Nintendo Console So Small, It Fits In Your Hand

For years now, Japanese capsule toy makers have churned out miniature (non-working, of course!) game consoles and miniature portables.


December 9, 2011
Mobile

One Of The Greatest Role-Playing Games Of All Time Now Available On IPhone

Take a trip back in time on your iPhone today as Sqiare Enix finds a new way to get folks to pay $US9.99 for Chrono Trigger. Makes you wish they’d just sell lifetime version subscriptions. [iTunes]


December 8, 2011
Uncategorized

What If The SNES Was Modded For Minimates Fighting?

It cannot be, but what if? Filmmaker Kyle Roberts created this stop-motion short using Minimates, a SNES, and tin foil.


October 19, 2011
In Real Life

This Secret Of Mana Rap Will Make You Wistful

There’s nothing like old-school JRPGs to make you nostalgic, and this rap about the plucky lads from Potos tuugsa at the old heartstrings. But, what this really needs is a video. Can’t be too hard to mock up SNES-era graphics along with this track, right?