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It’s a good week for Nintendo products at Shop Goodwill. A lot today which has just come up on the site includes a working NES with the original box and package in nearly perfect condition. If that wasn’t enough, the system also comes with an extra controller, a light gun,… Continue Reading »

I can’t wait for my copy of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots but I don’t want to say goodbye to elite agent Solid Snake, whom we’ve grown to love while following his adventures. We pray that rumors of an end are not true and continue to pose… Continue Reading »

I love when big companies do something to help out those less fortunate. Nintendo Canada was doing some spring cleaning and found a warehouse filled with old Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Virtual Boy paraphernalia (mainly games). So the division made an eBay account (nocl604) and… Continue Reading »

This week, the Virtual Console is receiving two retro-tastic titles (as per the usual). We have King’s Knight on the NES and Genesis sports mash-up Powerball in a rather low-key lineup. I’m still waiting for Majora’s Mask, but hey, to each their own. All VC titles are available on the… Continue Reading »

One of the coolest displays at CES 2008 displayed the awesome powers of the Retro Duo and Gen X consoles from Innex. Okay, cool for people who were born sometime in the 1980s. The two consoles are the thing of dreams for gamers who owned the original Nintendo, Super Nintendo,… Continue Reading »

Finally, a retail console that will play carts from more than one game system. Unfortunately for younger gamers - and fortunate for us lder gamers who horde their old carts - the Gen-X Dual System plays both 8-bit NES and 16-bit Genesis games. The Gen-X has two top slots, one… Continue Reading »

Now this is a hard core gamer. Anyone who will sit under the needle for hours to get full-color tattoos of their favorite games - especially those from many years ago - deserves plenty of respect. The man sporting this lovely ink is Samuel Mullin with arm art created by… Continue Reading »

  New this week: F-Zero X, Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting and China Warrior. This week’s three additions brings the total count to 109 games available for download through Nintendo’s Wii Shop Channel and playable only on the Wii. New Wii virtual Console (aka Virtual Arcade) games go live… Continue Reading »

This has so many shades of coolness I hardly know where to begin. Is it the NES gun staircase? How about the old school gold cart in the oversized system? Maybe the blocky design of the Duck Hunt garden? Maybe the giant “GameBro” on the side!? This building extraordinaire is… Continue Reading »

New this week: NES Open Tournament Golf, World Sports Competition and Bloody Wolf . This week’s three additions brings the total count to 106 games available for download through Nintendo’s Wii Shop Channel and playable only on the Wii. New Wii virtual Console (aka Virtual Arcade) games go live each… Continue Reading »