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What Kinect For NES Might Have Looked Like

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12:30PM December 17, 2011 | Logan Booker

Technically, we use muscles all the time to control games (and express our anger at them, if you’re the gamepad-throwing type), but when’s the last time you strapped sensors to your pythons and fist-clenched Mario into stomping goombas? Probably never, unless you’re one of the soldering wizards at Advancer Technologies. More »


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The Strange, Sad Case Of The North American Super Nintendo

2:00PM August 25, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

This week is the, believe it or not, 20th anniversary of the release of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in North America. More »


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Feel The Parental Fury Of The Super Nintendo Launch

11:00AM August 11, 2011 | Michael McWhertor

You may have fond memories of the 1991 launch of Nintendo’s SNES, but according to a recently unearthed local news broadcast, some parents were steaming at the notion of the new 16-bit console. More »


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Building The Perfect Super Nintendo (on A PC)

6:30PM August 10, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

We’ve all used an emulator at one stage in our lives. Whether to replay some classic old arcade games or play an obscure console title you missed first time around, they’re a dime a dozen. More »


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Supaboy Hands On: The Littlest Super Nintendo

12:00PM June 9, 2011 | matt buchanan

For an engorged SNES controller stuffed with SNES guts, a 3.5-inch screen, a rechargeable battery and loaded up with an original F-Zero SNES cartridge, the Supaboy is surprisingly un-weighty. More »


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Tired Of Your Old, Broken Super Nintendo Games? Piss On Them!

2:40AM May 21, 2011 | Mike Fahey

You thought that eBay lot of used Super Nintendo games was a good idea, until you discovered they were all either broken or horrifically outdated sports titles. At least you’ll have a pot to piss in, as long as you follow Price Charting’s instructions on how to build a video game urinal. More »


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It’s About Time Chrono Trigger Made It To The Wii Virtual Console

1:40AM May 13, 2011 | Mike Fahey

When a role-playing game is as centred on time travel as the Square classic Chrono Trigger, you really can’t argue when I call it one of the greatest RPGs of all time. Guess what I’ll be playing come Monday? More »


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The Super Nintendo You Can Hold In The Palm Of Your Hand

9:20PM April 13, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

And no, don’t make a Game Boy Advance joke, you smartass. Hyperkin’s Supaboy is an upcoming handheld unit that’s actually a Super Nintendo. Like, you have to insert Super Nintendo cartridges to play it. More »


In Real Life

The Toughest Game Cartridges Survive Fire, Flood, Ice, Jelly

3:00AM February 1, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Which video game console had the most resilient cartridges, the Super Nintendo or the Sega Genesis? Blistered Thumbs’ Rinry lets her sadistic side shine as she boils, burns, freezes and drops a pair of games to determine the toughest. More »


In Real Life

A Controller Fit For God

8:00PM October 21, 2010 | Brian Ashcraft

A typical game controller might have buttons with shapes or letters, but a controller suited for The Man Upstairs has way more: revolution, flood, epidemic – you name it. More »