I’ve really been getting into the site 2old2play, a gaming site dedicated to gamers over 25, of which I am one. Today I came across their article New Technology vs. Old Gamer Classics, an article which starts by asking why patches and instability are tolerated by today’s gamers and finishes by tugging at any life-long […]

As noted by 4CR and Infendo, the NES, or Nintendo Entertainment System for the clueless of you out there, has turned 20, at least in the US.
On the 18th of October 1985, when I had been at primary school for just a few months, the grey game oblonge jumped onto the scene, allowing people to […]

Doris Self, who’s 80, will be trying to claim back her title of “World’s Oldest Video Game Champion” at London’s CGEUK on August 13th. Doris laid out the smack down in Q*Bert back in 1984 with a score of 1,112,300. That score has since been topped and the current record stands at around 1.8×106 (1.8 […]

Whaka-whaka-whaka, a highly skill guitar sculptor, through some kind of super space-age ninja skill, constructed a Pacman Guitar, which is quite simply, the coolest guitar ever made. And at a price of $5,600 united statesian currency units, this marvel of art and science is also one of the most expensive video game themed things ever […]

Ever wondered what adverts for past Zelda games looked like? Wonder no more, as Legends and Adventures explores a back catalogue of Zelda TV advertising from past years and past systems.
My favourite one is the first, advertising the very first LoZ on the NES. Thick glasses, bad rapping, just geeks gaming - those were the […]

Add MAME to the growing list of emulation software gracing Sony’s portable thanks to our software hacking friends in the OSS community. MAME now runs on the PSP.
This means the PSP can run most arcade machine ROMS from the last 3 decades, including PacMan, Donkey Kong, the original Asteroids and my favourite, Time Pilot, […]

Engadget has the word of the world’s tiniest NES controller. It’s fully operational, looks the part, and is the size of one of those American “quarters”, however big that is (I seem to remember them being reasonably small, like the NZ 20c piece, which probably means nothing to any of you).
There’s full details on the […]