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Nintendo Entertainment System EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Phanto: The scariest videogame character of all time 86 You are staring into the face of sheer terror.Halloween is only a few days away, and with it comes gamers everywhere thinking about (and dressing like) some of the videogame characters that scare... Portable gaming in a game 21 I'm not so sure about the practicality level of this, but the awesome level is off the charts. Airz, a forum member over at Ben Heck's site, created a portable gaming system out of a Super Mario ... The Memory Card .70: Giant robot fish! 64 “The Memory Card” is a seasonal feature that dissects and honors some of the most artistic, innovative, and memorable videogame moments of all time.As a huge fan of retro games, I tel... The Memory Card .69: TKO! BJ! LOL! 36 "The Memory Card" is a seasonal feature that dissects and honors some of the most artistic, innovative, and memorable videogame moments of all time.I was originally going to write about... The Memory Card .67: Scaling the waterfall 21 "The Memory Card" is a seasonal feature that dissects and honors some of the most artistic, innovative, and memorable videogame moments of all time.Online multiplayer is revolutionary. ... The Memory Card .66: Taloon the merchant 23 “The Memory Card” is a seasonal feature that dissects and honors some of the most artistic, innovative, and memorable videogame moments of all time.For years, role-playing games have ... RetRose Tinted: Godzilla 18 [A critical eye takes time to develop. RetRose Tinted is a regular feature in which I re-examine games of yesteryear to see if my memories of them live up to the reality.] I was probably about el... The Memory Card .63: Auf Wiedersehen! 24 "The Memory Card" is a seasonal feature that dissects and honors some of the most artistic, innovative, and memorable videogame moments of all time. I have witnessed a multitude of vide... The Videogame Show What I've Done: Kung Fu 42 Do you know Kung Fu? If not, you soon will do when you watch the latest Videogame Show, which is all about ... you guessed it ... Kung Fu. The videogame, not the martial art famously practiced by... Secrets abound in NES Punch Out!!, here's one 25 I played the original Punch-Out!! on the NES until my fingers bled. This was mostly because I sucked at it, but I was determined to beat it. I did, once, during a weekend night of glory that I ha... Ken Levine lost his girlfriend thanks to Legend of Zelda 31 BioShock creator Ken Levine takes games seriously. So seriously, in fact, that he lost his first real girlfriend thanks to The Legend of Zelda, among other classic games such as Adventure, Ultima... Play Mega Man on the Atari 2600, if you wanna 15 Two years ago, for the 2007 I Am 8-bit gallery, artist David Galloway (re)created Capcom's original Mega Man on the Atari 2600. If I were picky, I would insist that Galloway's de-make be played o... Man carves NES controller into his flesh 83 Some people can love a little too much, and the heady world of body modification is often proof of just that. Take, for example, a man known only as Metal_Games, who has sliced an NES controller ... Sexy Time! Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode 58 In our first episode of Sexy Time!, Conrad took a moment to explore the memorable flickr-in-your-pants moments that Fear Effect 2 had to offer. When he asked me to help him in getting this series... Games Time Forgot: Deja Vu 24 Anyone who's ever listened to me wax poetic on RetroforceGo! about Shadowgate, the third title in the MacVenture series, already knows I have a hardcore love for anything with a point and click i... Plug your old stuff into your new stuff 19 Playing games on the Classic Controller for the N64 on your Wii is fantastically wrong. If you've ever tried to play through Sin & Punishment with that thing you know there are some games tha... Thinkgeek offers up the Retro Mini, a portable NES 28 If you had suggested the idea of a portable NES to me back when I was deep in the throes of my romance with it back in 1986, I would have probably passed out at the idea, despite the fact there's... Is Wii Sports the best selling game ever? 38 24 years is a long time to be number one at anything. World records fall on an almost annual basis and it seems that no one is the king of the pile for very long. The fact that Super Mario Bros. ... RetRose Tinted: Renegade 16 [A critical eye takes time to develop. RetRose Tinted is a regular column in which I re-examine games of yesteryear to see if my memories of them live up to the reality.]In the arcades, Renegade ... No, seriously: NES purse mod 20 We come across some pretty strange console mods here on Destructoid. While it seems that most mods are purely a visual thing, some shoot for function or portability. I can only guess that was the... Updated Power Glove is so bad 13 I always find it funny how Nintendo has come full circle with a number of their products. They introduced the Power Glove back in 1989 which had very primitive motion controls. Now we have the Wi... Want a NES Joystick Test Cartridge? Yours for only $1,050 13 I'm a NES fanatic, but I have to admit to never even having seen a picture of one of these things before. Currently listed on eBay for the highly affordable price of $1,050, these carts were used... A Boy and His Blob: gorgeous screens, details, squeals of delight 56 As we told you yesterday, A Boy and His Blob is being brought back for the Wii for its 20th anniversary. The 1989 NES classic is being revived by WayForward (Contra 4), and will feature hand-draw... Take a hot, steamy shower with Donkey Kong...Junior! 11 I see the magazine spreads and television shows that feature massive houses, 6-car garages, pillars and spiral staircases, and all this other unnecessary bullsh*t and just roll my eyes. I don't c... Homebrew 8-bit NES game D-Pad Hero is better than Guitar Hero World Tour 26 Here's what Activision should have released in Fall of 2008 -- an 8-bit version of the Guitar Hero franchise called D-Pad Hero.Designed by Kent Hansen and Andreas Pedersen, this 8-bit remake of t... NES Varsity jacket awesome or awful? You decide! 42 I've never been much for the varsity look personally, but since the NES controller is popping up on everything from wallets to underwear lately I can't say I'm very surprised to see it on a jacke... Mock-up of NES version of The Dark Knight has me all in a tizzy 39 It’s been a long while since we’ve had a legitimately good Batman videogame. The most recent one I could think of was The Adventures of Batman & Robin back on the Genesis and SN... Back to the future: Pac-Man Championship Edition remade for the NES 15  I have to admit, I laughed a little bit when Namco and Microsoft first announced that Pac-Man Championship Edition was coming to Xbox LIVE Arcade. They were making such a huge deal about it... Balloon Fight Existentialism 25 Do you remember the extra mode in Balloon Fight where you went towards the left of the screen, popping lime green balloons and avoiding electrocution, on and on and on, and it just got harder, ... Now you're playing with power: NES controller bong 40 Perhaps inspired by the Nintendo 64 controller bong we saw some time ago, Gizmodo reader James tried to make an even more compact one based on the classic Nintendo Entertainment System controller... Check out this NES mod, Punisher style 17  I like mods in general, but mod the NES into anything at all and you've got my attention. I have a bit of a soft spot for the system, in case you haven't noticed by now. The modder decided ... The Memory Card .45: The birth of the cutscene 36 While a videogame’s story is one of the most important aspects of modern games, this wasn’t necessarily the case twenty years ago. True, retro designers would make sure to create a be... Grapple yourself some amazing items by preordering Bionic Commando 29 Okay, I don’t hear any Internet squeeing yet. You must not be looking at the above picture hard enough. Do you not see the classic Bionic Commando box art front? Have you not noticed the 8-... Somewhere between cool and highway robbery: Framed NES carts 8 I'm a huge fan of just about everything having to do with the NES, as you may have guessed by now. It's my favorite vintage system and just being near one makes me feel all glowy. That being said... Every NES game ever made, listed in order of awesome 92 Who cares about someone's amazingly detailed list of NES games in order of quality, you say? Why, you may not at all. However, I can't think of any better reason to get people to think about thei... Now we're cookin': Nintendo mod Nintoaster 20  For most of the mods we see these days, I'm always left wondering why they even bothered. I do realize that many mods are done for the challenge, just to be able to say they pulled it off. ... Game Debate to the Death! Bubble Bobble VS Punch-Out!! 70 Last week we started off round two with a wall of one-sided votes, and as the hours went by, not much changed. While I was a huge fan of Paperboy back in the day, I'm not going to lie, it felt gr... Game Debate to the Death! Paperboy VS Bubble Bobble 93 Last week I started a new vein for these debates to draw blood from as we discussed two highly appreciated, yet entirely different, retro games. The support for both NES games was tremendous, but... Game Debate to the Death! Excitebike VS Punch-Out!! 68 Last week's PS2 platformer debate brought out various different opinions from readers, with a healthy amount of fan support from all sides. While there was one clear winner, there was a vicious f... The NES belt buckle lets you play on the go, protects your crotch 23 The slapping of videogame accessories over your junk fad seems to be still going strong. It all started with NESBuckle when they introduced classic old school controllers as belt buckles. Then so... Two separate gaming marathons are streaming live today for charity 7 Playing games to raise money for Child's Play has become a popular way to spend time these days, and wouldn't you know it, two different groups of gamers decided to host their gaming marathon fun... A one-console future: Pray it never happens 63 So I just spent a whole feature talking about the problems of trying to support multiple consoles -- why would we still NEVER, EVER want a one-console future? After reading a number of the comme... The great NES coffeetable project (or how I came to have sex with a coffeetable) 47 The original NES controller has inspired many a killer recreation project, and this is surely not the first time that someone has decided to whip up a table based on the little rectangular guy. Y... Reimagined NES makes gamer hearts go pitter-patter 34 It was a confusing first few moments, receiving this tip and trying to make sense of what I was seeing. I think the problem was that I was looking for a price tag or a story, and sadly neither wa... Virtual Console releases for the week of 4/28: gang kidnapping edition! 16 I was going to post a gameplay video above, but when searching for one I discovered this gem instead, which I remember all too well from when I was a kid. It sucks that cartoons of this caliber d... Capcom bears the bad news: No Bionic Commando for the Virtual Console 41 While Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting the release of Bionic Commando: Rearmed, what are the chances of the original version hitting the Virtual Console? ... Fully functional NES gets squeezed into a cart 63 What's a Fami-Card? You're looking at one, ladies and maybe-gentlemen. What you see above is the master work of a French modder named Kotomi. He actually took an NOAC (NES in a chip) and modded ... River City Ransom to punch you in the stomach next week! BARF! 41 I don’t usually like to post stories about upcoming Virtual Console games -- what with the lack of exciting offerings as of late -- but this week is an exception. Afte... Virtual Console releases for the week of 4/7 21 Old Nintendo commericals are the best thing since watching Jim Sterling scream obscenities in a hot tub in Cancun. Unlike Jim, they lack true wit and class, which kind of ages them in such a way ... The Great Retro Quiz! .25: Ninja Gaiden 31 In honor of the incredible Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword coming out for the Nintendo DS, this week’s Great Retro Quiz is all about the even more incredible Ninja Gaiden for the N... An RPG draws near! Tombs and Treasure 21 Summer, 1989. I was twelve years old and would basically play anything given to me in the shape of a Nintendo cartridge (I feel lucky now that some cunning bully didn't find this out and craft my... The Great Retro Quiz! .24: Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! 44 Hello, everyone, and welcome to another edition of The Great Retro Quiz!, the weekly trivia challenge that puts your knowledge of retro games to the test. I am your host, Chad Conce... The Great Retro Quiz! .23: Zelda II: The Adventure of Link 37 It seems that the direct sequels to many ridiculously popular videogames during the retro glory days were unfairly chastised by the public. Super Mario Bros. 2, at least in Amer... Is Nintendo Duck Hunting without a license? 33 According to some Matlocking done by Destructoid C-blogger MaxVest, Nintendo's grasp on the Duck Hunt trademark may be in some serious jeopardy in the not so distant future. That i... The least good idea for a port ever: Final Fantasy VII goes 8-Bit 40 Weird gaming crap enthusiasts GameSnipe recently scored themselves a real, honest to goodness copy of Final Fantasy VII for the Famicom.  Much like the recently talked about 8-Bit version of... Games time forgot: Jordan vs Bird: One on One 48 I'm going to be completely honest: I don't actually know if this game is any good. I played the hell out of it when I was a child -- it was the second videogame I ever got -- and I enjoyed it the... The Memory Card .23: It was all a dream? 51 Sometimes videogame moments can be memorable without being very good. Take last season’s StarTropics Memory Card induction, for instance: I will never forget that damned subme... Watch this drummer 'beat' Super Mario Bros. 2 65 Both Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3 had incredible percussion and drum tracks for 8-bit NES games. If you're anything like me, I'm sure you were surprised and impressed when you hea... Games time forgot: Little Nemo: Dream Master 94 With all the Virtual Console games coming to the Nintendo Wii shop, I was really hoping that this week’s game that time forgot would have been added by now, but I guess the lovely people ... 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