Super Mario 64 is one of my go-tos. I just pop that original cartridge in and Chewie...I'm home. While nostalgia is definitely a powerful force, I actually believe Mario 64 still holds up. Its worlds, while defined by technical li...

Bethesda has dropped a dedicated trailer for the upcoming remaster of Doom 64, a bonus bundled with all pre-orders of Doom Eternal, which launches on PS4, PC and Xbox One in March 2020.Originally released for the Nintendo 64 in 1997, Doom 6...

Back in 2015, folks were wary about the idea of a Super Smash Bros. convention basically popping up overnight. Some doubted that it would even get off the ground (it was announced right after the infamous DashCon ball pit incident, among ot...

Well, what's this? It seems as though Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3 aren't the only classic Doom games in the pipeline. We might be getting a throwback from the 64-bit era. PEGI, the European ratings board, has a new listing for Doom ...

The 35th anniversary of Tetris is this month, and to celebrate the creator Alexey Pajitnov has been doing a kind of celebratory press tour. On the weekend of the actual anniversary he showed up at the Los Angeles Barcade event, and at E3 la...

Fun footage from an old Japanese television show has come to light, giving us a fleeting look at the planned, but ultimately cancelled, EarthBound 64 (or Mother 3) that was in development for the Nintendo 64 back in the mid-'90s.Unearthed b...

Super Mario 64's "so long...[x] Bowser!" is one of the most hotly contested video game lines to date. If you somehow haven't played this classic before, the gist is that during the several big boss battles with Bowser, Mario utters somethin...

"Slappers only, facility, heads-up 1v1, let's go," was the ultimate GoldenEye 007/64 challenge in 1997. My "slappers" was always "proximity mines only," but you get the idea. GoldenEye was an institution for a lot of people back i...

As a fun little twist, Yooka-Laylee has gotten a 64-bit makeover. You can re-experience the game as it kinda sorta would've looked had it been released on a Nintendo 64 instead of modern platforms. I would not recommend watching this traile...

This week, believe it or don't, Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. franchise is an amazing 20 years old. That's 20 years of frenetic button-pounding, chaotic multiplayer warfare and turning up to tournaments in your pyjamas (at least that's what ...

This past weekend, British YouTuber Hbomberguy sat down in front of Rare's 1999 Nintendo 64 release Donkey Kong 64 with two goals. Firstly, to reach 101% completion - a feat which had eluded him since childhood - and secondly, to raise mone...

For the past two holiday seasons, Nintendo has released mini variants of the NES and SNES consoles. Along with being a pretty faithful replication of the gray boxes, they included pre-packed games that were curated to perfectly tickle your ...

In my formative years, a huge part of my life revolved around the pseudo-sport of pro-wrestling. Not just as a ticket-buying fan, but as a student of the game, a backstage producer and, for a short but painful time, a worker myself. Since t...

Remember Totaku? I have to admit that the brand had slipped my mind completely, despite my writing about it in January. But they're a range of mini-figurines replicating classic video game characters, which launched in GameStop and GAME thi...

One debate that has raged over the last 21 years is whether or not picking Oddjob in GoldenEye 007 was considered cheating. The guy is shorter than every other character in the game, so he clearly as an advantage due to the game's poor lock...

No matter how much you love something, there is probably someone out there who loves it more. That's most assuredly the case with Kaze Emanuar and Super Mario 64. For years Kaze has been fine-tuning Mario 64 to look and feel as smooth ...

The team behind Yooka-Laylee is "alive, we're listening, and we have fun stuff headed your way." In a status update, Playtonic Games noted that things have been quiet on the outside, but internally, "we're all heads down, buzzing like union...

I just took a two-decade trip down memory lane and now I'm feeling weirdly emotional. In this precious footage from 1996, Nintendo's Ken Lobb demonstrates the wonderful world of Super Mario 64 to a captivated audience. We're so used to seei...

YouTube channel NintendoDuo has uploaded a fun video of beloved SNES racer Super Mario Kart, hacked to include the roster from Capcom's arcade classic Street Fighter II.Ryu, Ken, Chun-Li, Bison and co. all put in an appearance in place of t...

When you're a child of four, you do everything with your brothers and sisters. You play together, you eat together, you even get haircuts together. And, if one of you is due for a dentist appointment, all of you are. There needs to be an or...

The cancelled Nintendo 64 port of 40 Winks (known as Ruff and Tumble in Europe) will finally see release on the console, some 20 years later, thanks to studio Piko Interactive and a slew of generous Kickstarter backers.Originally scheduled ...

The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences holds the D.I.C.E. Awards every year to recognize not only the entertainment we enjoy, but the people that made our entertainment possible. For the upcoming 21st D.I.C.E. Awards, acclaimed Nint...

If I had seen this mod back in the Nintendo 64 days, I would've lost my mind. It's essentially a clever mash-up of Banjo-Kazooie and Super Mario 64, and while Mario running around Spiral Mountain is impressive in its own right, the fan crea...

Before anyone gets too excited, this is simply just a prototype, with no word yet on it actually entering production anytime soon. For those unaware, Hyperkin are the same people behind devices such as the RetroN series of emulation-based r...

This weekend, speedrunner Karl Jobst blew his (and many other runner's) minds when he toppled a World Record on Rare's legendary N64 title GoldenEye 007. A record that was originally set some fifteen years ago.The record in question pertain...