Wireless NES controllers are nothing new but good ones are more recent. Wireless controllers contemporary with the NES were generally infrar...

As we all know, Nintendo introduced the Famicom in 1983, ported it to the west as the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985 and after the la...

When the NES was just starting out in 1985 and 1986, there really was not a whole lot of information available about the games for the syste...

I have often read that Nintendo, as of the Nintendo Entertainment System and everything thereafter, made all cartridges for its systems and ...

Early on, most video games did not need to be translated because the amount of text used in these games was very limited.  Some games, like ...

RetroUSB AVS, courtesy of RetroUSB.com The NES is undoubtedly the most cloned video game system ever, and in the 2010s FPGA technology had d...

When Nintendo and its authorized third parties stopped releasing new games for the NES and Famicom in 1993 and 1994, respectively, the estab...

There have been several hardware devices released over the past four decades which play NES and Famicom games.  Any regular reader of this b...

We tend to think that Nintendo consoles first entered the online arena with the GameCube, its Modem and Broadband Adapters and Phantasy Star...

Trinity In 2019, 8BitDo released a unique product, the M30 2.4G.  This product was notable in that it was shaped like a Sega Genesis 6-b...

In my last blog entry, I announced the creation of an evolving database of NES ROM headers, focused on cartridge accuracy.  However, while ...

NES and Famicom emulation has been around for over twenty-five years.  In that time, the internal hardware has become very well documented. ...

Joy Van - Twin Eagle AVE - Double Strike Taiwan was called one of the four Asian Tigers (with Singapore, South ...

Reproductions of NES games are nothing new, people have been making them and selling them illegally for years.  Recently the retro gaming ...

Golf is popular in most parts of the world with any concentration of wealth.  It is rather popular in Japan, at least for those who can af...

There is more to the screen than those pixels or tiles which a graphics programmer had the ability to manipulate into graphical images.  In ...

When you see new controllers being sold for your retro video game systems in your local retro video game store and in many online stores, th...

When it comes to the NES, everybody at one point or another has emulated the NES.  NES emulation has been around for a long time and has imp...

Nintendo's latest efforts to "cash in" on its retro properties, the NES Classic Edition and the SNES Classic Edition, have gon...

Clones of the Famicom have been around since the mid-1980s, but clones of the Nintendo Entertainment System were very rare until Nintendo...