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...

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time had a major impact on a lot of formative gaming careers. Not only was it one of the most famous "it's done when it's done" examples when it comes to Nintendo's willingness to delay big projects, but it's...

I used to have my Nintendo 64 on-hand, hooked up to an older TV ready to go, but after a number of 3DS and Virtual Console re-releases, Nintendo has made it a little easier to relive the retro era. This is especially true for Ocarina of Tim...

Super Mario 64 Online, a romhack that lets 24 people get together and play Mario 64 together, looks fun as hell -- in a slightly broken, wholly entertaining way. It's downloadable here for free. Online functionality would be cool in its ow...

I know what you're thinking -- there was a Die Hard Nintendo 64 game? Well yes. It might not look as fun as the arcade edition, or even the wonky Die Hard Trilogy for PS1, but it exists. Assembler Games user 10ahu managed to ...

YouTuber Shesez has a pretty neat little program called "Boundary Leak," where they take a look at off-camera objects in retro games. As we've seen many times before developers either house holdover objects in random places they assume play...

Back in 1996, the Nintendo 64 was an exciting time of innovation and the introduction of 3D graphics for a lot of people. Nintendo partnered up with Silicon Graphics to help develop the N64 and it would go on to have a solid library of game...

Those boys over at IFHT Films break down the question that everyone still wonders: How do you be a '90s gamer in the current age? From picking the right console, blowing on cartridges, gaming all night at a sleep over, to "Socker Boppers" (...

Few if any of us were surprised to see Nintendo follow up the NES Classic Edition with a miniature Super Nintendo, but how far up the console cycle will the company go, and how quickly? As much as I'd rather not even think about what comes ...

Turok 1 and 2 played a pretty big part of my childhood. While the first game mostly started the trend of crazy first-person shooters coming to the N64, Turok 2 added multiplayer support with some ridiculous levels and weapons to up the ante...

The Nintendo 64 wasn't my favorite console. Even on a good day, it doesn't make my top five. And many of its best games don't hold up super well if you're running them on the original hardware. But, all that said, the N64 does warrant a spe...

21 years ago today, the Nintendo 64 launched in Japan. It would take several more months to arrive in the US and nearly a year later for Europe. In its lifetime (which lasted until 2002 in Japan and 2003 in the west), it made a major i...