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Retro Games
Game Boy, Atari, the arcade era and the remasters bringing them back. The games that got here first.
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Pokémon Colosseum Is Officially Headed to Nintendo Switch 2
Wes is going back to the desert. A lot of fans just wish he’d hurry up. Nintendo has confirmed that Pokémon Colosseum, the GameCube spin-off from the early…
33 Years Later, Two Beloved SNES RPGs Are Finally Getting Remakes
Four heroes storm a floating fortress, cut down four villains and watch the whole thing start to fall out of the sky. Two of them get out. Two…
This Free Emerald ROM Hack Packs Kanto, Johto And Hoenn Into One Adventure
Four regions. One playthrough. No money changes hands. That’s the pitch for Pokémon Emerald Extended Cut, a completed ROM hack built on top of Pokémon Emerald Version that…
11 PS2 Open-World Sandboxes That Still Hold Up
In 2005, a kid named Wanderer rode a horse across an empty plain looking for something the size of a cathedral to climb. No quest markers. No side…
Super Mario 64 Is Back With Co-Op And Rebuilt Visuals
Sixteen players. One Peach’s castle. Every object and every level synced so nobody falls through the floor while somebody else is doing the wing cap. That’s the Co-Op…
Why gamers still love the GameCube controller 25 years on
Nintendo has released four home consoles since the GameCube died, and every single one of them officially supports a GameCube pad. That’s not nostalgia. That’s a company admitting…
What you actually need to build your own retro arcade cabinet
The first question most people ask when they decide to build a retro arcade cabinet is which Raspberry Pi to buy. Resist that urge. It’s the most fun…
A 1999 Game Boy Nintendo Classic Just Came Back on Modern Consoles
Bub and Bob are back, and this time they’re on hardware that didn’t exist when they first started blowing bubbles at things. Taito’s arcade platformer Bubble Bobble is…
Why Volvy’s Adventure, a Game Boy Color prototype, is taking on GTA 6
One studio looked at November 19, the day Grand Theft Auto 6 is due out, and decided that was a fine afternoon to put out a 2D platformer…
