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Why Did Nintendo Cancel Star Fox 2?

By Spencer . March 28, 2010 . 1:48am

Nintendo hyped up Star Fox 2 and the leaked beta shows the game was near completion. Actually, Dylan Cuthbert, developer and now founder of Q Games, says it was “fully completed.”

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Kid Kirby: Nintendo’s Canned SNES Kirby Game

By Spencer . September 23, 2008 . 5:59pm

Nintendo is revisiting Kirby Super Star with Kirby Super Star Ultra on the Nintendo DS. The original title was one of three Kirby games…

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Contra III NES vs. Contra III SNES

By Spencer . April 2, 2008 . 12:14pm

If you are thinking, “Contra III never came out for the NES!” you’re technically correct. Konami had no hand in the pirate ROM. However, the…

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Earthbound punishes pirates by deleting game saves

By Spencer . March 12, 2008 . 7:23pm

Square Enix’s cute and clever “thanks for playing” screen in Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates has sparked some interesting discussion about other anti-piracy…

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Korea’s NES, N64 and Super Comboy

By Spencer . February 9, 2008 . 3:57pm

Browsing through my photos from Korea I discovered a picture of Korea’s Nintendo Entertainment System. This might surprise some readers, but when Nintendo launched…

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Found at CES: the Genesis / NES hybrid

By Spencer . January 9, 2008 . 9:44am

I can’t see much personal use for the line of RetroDuo consoles since all my old consoles work, but there is some novelty in…

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Chrono Trigger retranslation completed

By Spencer . September 30, 2007 . 4:58pm

A labor of love is ready and available for download if you weren’t satisfied with Chrono Trigger’s US script. The retranslation took things out that…

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Watch: Prototype footage from Super Mario RPG

By Spencer . June 17, 2007 . 3:01pm

Carnivol over from the Lost Levels forums put up a video from 1995 where Shigeru Miyamoto (producer from Nintendo) and Chijiro Fujioka (director from Square)…

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Recreating video game music in Mario Paint

By Spencer . June 12, 2007 . 1:49pm

Ahh… Mario Paint one of my most treasured games. I’ve got the cart and a broken, useless Super Nintendo mouse. I played around with the…

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Shadowrun retrospective

By Spencer . April 25, 2007 . 9:40am

Way before FASA Studios decided Shadowrun should be a Counterstrike-like FPS three other Shadowrun games were released for consoles in the 90s. Hardcore Gaming 101…

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Fan based Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 translation to tide you over

By Spencer . April 12, 2007 . 3:31pm

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…

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The Pioneers: Ted Woolsey. A Worthy Read.

By Rolando . March 21, 2007 . 11:02pm

Some of you may not know who Ted Woolsey is; but to those of us who’ve come to love Final Fantasy VI (III at the…

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Happy birthday Chrono Trigger!

By Spencer . March 11, 2007 . 10:30am

Today Chrono Trigger is twelve years old and below is the original commercial that aired in Japan to promote Crono’s time travelling adventure.
 
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Watch: BS Zelda, the lost remake of the classic

By Spencer . March 2, 2007 . 4:06pm

On the Super Famicom Satellaview there was a version of Zelda called BS Zelda (BS for Brodcast Satellaview). Gameplay was similar to the NES version…

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