Many years after it has become a treasured memory people are still developing games for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Occasionally, homebrew games come out in gray cartridge shells, but Sudoku for the NES also has a rare gold cartridge edition. Only five of these were made and one of them will be auctioned off at [...]

The title alone makes this rom hack worth mentioning, but there is more to Mr. Pac-Man besides a clever name. The repurposed release of Mrs. Pac-Man has new maps to check out and a new ghost. Granted it’s not nearly as lavish as Pac-Man: Championship Edition, but the NES never had widescreen support or HD [...]

Before online gaming was chic Sega tipped their hat into the online ring with the Sega Channel in the USA and SegaMega Net in Japan. Both devices let players access online only content such as Mega Man: The Wily Wars (*was released as a cartridge in regions outside the USA) and a series of text [...]

  Ahh… Lode Runner we meet again and you’ve come a long way from being a stick figure. When Hudson picked up the rights to make a Famicom game they replaced the enemies with robots that look like Bomberman and a hero who bears a resemblance to Mario.   Maybe that was the inspiration for [...]

Fans are still keeping Wolfenstein 3D alive years after it single handedly created the FPS genre. Fellow Siliconera writer, Gnome, posted over on his site a link to a couple of fan developed mods for the game. Most of them are the standard enemy swaps with new layouts and a tweaked weapon except for medEvil, [...]

Many of the Super Mario Brothers hacks on the market are designed to test how well you can exploit bugs in the game. This hack discovered by the Lost Levels is different, it’s designed to test your patience. Level 1-1 starts with Mario falling on a question mark block and a huge gaping pit to [...]

I’m a big big fan of the video game retro homebrew scene. There’s just something awesome about writing code for a game system 25-30 years old. Fans of the old school games probably have great memories of Adventure for the Atari 2600. Being chased around by a dragon that looked like a duck trying to [...]

Hard Relay Mario Brothers is a sadistic hack of Super Mario Brothers that requires players to exploit glitches to complete the game. While an emulator is used, it still takes skill to do tricks like bouncing off a moving koopa shell and passing through solid objects. TAS videos explains how to do some of the [...]

Instead of waiting for Konami to choreograph the steps to new songs the Stepmania community takes matters in their own hands by making SIM files, with inhuman dance sequences only for the hardcore. While there are lots of songs out in the wild many of them fall into the video game music, anime theme or [...]

  A few years back Philadelphia was home to one of the best retro gaming conventions in North America, the . Sadly, it’s no more… but a new one has risen in it’s place that looks to keep what the retro stuff intact but to add all sorts of new gaming goodness. It’s called the [...]

One of the more creative games I’ve got my hands on is a homebrew Nintendo DS game called Everlasting Love. The concept is deceptively simple guide a monkey from the start of the level to the end only by jumping, no walking. Things get tricky because the monkey jumps to the beat of the song [...]

While fans of the Fire Emblem series are hoping that Nintendo will localize some of the older Fire Emblem games for the Virtual Console Shaya and company took the time to finish up work on the Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 translation, the final Fire Emblem game for the Super Famicom. The patch isn’t complete, but [...]

With the help of a custom GlovePIE script the Wii remote can be used to play Stepmania. The demo shows that instead of pressing keys or stomping on arrows you move the remote: up, down, left or right. It’s a new way to experience DDR, but hopefully Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party will be more [...]

Atari Flashback wasn’t exactly the retro gamer’s dream machine it was supposed to be. Sad, I know, but true. Atari Flashback 2.0, on the other hand, is thankfully a totally different console and a huge improvement over the original v.1.0, finally offering a proper Atari 2600 gaming experience. Not only are the glitches of the [...]