So now it’s June of 1986. It’s been 7 months since the rollout of the NES. Sales started in New York and California, and now we’re spreading inward across the country into flyover country. Sales are ramping up, Nintendo is meeting the demand so far with the system and current […]
OK…I’m back. It’s only been 3 weeks to research, play and review 3 games. Should be easy, right? Well, here in the 16th month of 2020, nothing is easy. It’s cool. I’ll watch Top Gear highlights on Youtube, and we’ll get it done. Two days later… OK. We’ll try to […]
(quick author’s note: NEW WEBSITE! It was time for a change, and i really, really like this look. if you click on the menu over there on the left, there’s a couple of cool things, like a search bar, and the ability to see a list (and a link) of […]
When I was very young, and the NES first came out, there were many mysteries that came out of the box alongside the system itself. I’d heard rumors of how to get to “Minus One” world in NES. (HERE is a demo on how to pull it off…after 35 years […]
I’m back. Somehow it’s been 3 months since my last post, despite the fact I was finally getting into the swing of writing. But as soon as I got going with my Nintendo playthrough goal, I picked up a massive project at work—I ended up running a safety investigation, based […]
Mario, of Nintendo fame, isn’t actually Italian. Or at least the real Mario, the actual person the character’s name comes from, isn’t Italian. He’s actually an American. When Shigeru Miyamoto was in California, selling the initial shipments of Donkey Kong cabinets to arcades, the games were stored in a little […]
10 YARD FIGHT Originally an arcade game from 1983 by Irem, 10 Yard Fight game was ported over to the NES in order to be ready for the launch system. The only real difference between the cabinet and the port was the ability to play defense; the arcade was strictly […]
July 15, 1983. The day the world changed for home video games. That’s the day that Nintendo released the gorgeous, red and brown FAMICOM for the grand price of ¥14,800 (about 65 bucks US.) It launched with 3 games (Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, and Popeye), and didn’t have a […]
Here’s a little known fact…the Nintendo Company is actually much older than the NES/FAMICOM that brought the world’s attention to Japan. It actually started in 1889 as a playing card company. Before Nintendo went into the video game industry in the mid-1970s, they had also been in the taxi industry, […]