Capcom’s Mega Man is the stuff of gaming legend. Few other titles have a legacy quite like it, and even fewer can boast so many games of such phenomenal quality. Let’s check out where the series began through a modern lens. The hallmarks of an exemplary platformer As you’re thrownRead More →
Issued almost two decades ago, the Nintendo Wii console remains one of the most groundbreaking gaming hardware releases ever. John Bowe remembers it well… Do you remember when the Nintendo Wii came out? It was released worldwide over the winter of 2006/2007, and Nintendo’s Wii marked a return for aRead More →
Get to know the team: Bhav the Hylian, writer at Gaming Retro, talks Nintendo, Tetris, and Zelda with John Bowe. Nintendo fans are a particular type, even as their fandom has grown and spilled into each new generation of followers. Being an old-time Sega crusty I have feelings towards NintendoRead More →
Continuing our look at 1996 in video games, In my previous article, I stated the case for common sense that 1996 was the greatest year for gaming, both within the industry and the culture that gathers around it. In the process of writing that, I discovered that such a yearRead More →
We take a look at one of the most iconic games ever released: Super Mario Bros. Mario is one of the most well-known video game protagonists with an unmatched legacy. The Mario games have existed longer than I have, and as I was a Sega kid, I never tried theRead More →
Wii U and 3DS online services end 8 April 2024. It’s been a long time coming, but we knew it had to happen. As time rolls on, new devices are released, and technology evolves, older systems are retired, sunsetted, or simply disabled. This time around, it is the turn ofRead More →
Donkey Kong is one of Nintendo’s most well-known characters. But before he was bounding across levels in Donkey Kong Country, he enjoyed the simple life, throwing barrels at Mario on the NES. I’m a big fan of the superb SNES platformer, and now it’s time to check the series’ humbleRead More →
Choice, the problem that gets everywhere. Too little of anything is a problem of its own, and too much is just that. In retro gaming I have them both; too little in that I am still at the early doors of catching up to everyone else and their myriad accessRead More →
ROM siteholder Dstorage has been ordered to pay €442,750 (approximately $484,000 USD) to Nintendo by order of the Paris Court of Appeals with a further €25,000 covering legal fees. Dstorage was targeted for possessing unauthorised Nintendo games on its website 1fichier.com. They were ordered by Nintendo to remove the pirated games,Read More →
