NES

If the Game Boy Advance slot on your DS Lite isn’t getting much use, this adapter might be just the thing to bring it out of its funk. It’s called…

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Giant NES controller houses normal, working NES

11:30 am PST • November 26, 2007

Here’s a giant NES controller for your amusement. It has a working Nintendo Entertainment System inside of it. The buttons on the big controller are functional but due to its…

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Nintendo is officially ending NES support

10:00 am PDT • October 18, 2007

I may give Nintendo a lot of crap for the Wii, but every other system that company has made is gold sans Gamecube. Now, after 22-years, Nintendo of Japan is…

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'Sneaker Pimps' pimped out NES sneaker

4:00 pm PDT • October 13, 2007

Oh wow. We’re looking at what appears to be a working Nintendo Entertainment System built into the bottom of a shoe. This photo was apparently taken last night in New…

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NES Emulator Hits The iPhone

11:08 am PDT • August 7, 2007

BITCHIN’! Now you finally have a reason to get an iPhone! Sure, it may not have 3G or Adobe Flash support, but that’s fine. Someone made an NES emulator for…

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NES Controller Turned SLVR Case

12:07 pm PDT • July 10, 2007

Yeah. Chicks are gonna love it. Old school NES controllers can take a beating. I remember playing the living hell out of Contra and Super C trying to beat them…

We like the Wii here at CrunchGear. It’s Nintendo doing right what it did wrong with the ill-fated PowerGlove and the U-Force: making motion control real. That being said, anyone…

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Contra No-Death Speedrun

9:45 am PDT • May 21, 2007

This video of a guy playing all the way through Contra is a speedrun no doubt, but still, I give him props for taking the time to play it and…

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Mario on Apple TV

10:21 pm PDT • April 8, 2007

This is so cool. It’s great to see the Apple TV is a full-bore mini-PC with some amazing power under the hood. If I didn’t love my the Apple TV…

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SNES/NES Controller Wii Mod

9:27 am PST • March 2, 2007

I don’t do this whole Nintendo Wii thing, but I know that if I downloaded some games on the Virtual Console, I’d want to use an actual SNES or NES…

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Guitar Shaped Like Old School Famicom

10:19 am PST • February 27, 2007

Can someone give this guy a hand for craftsmanship? Not only did a Japanese guy take the time to recreate a Nintendo Famicom (aka NES) out of wood, but he…

Our Wii is nice and all, but there’s something beyond retro about the original NES or even the SNES’s simple controller that makes us better gamers. That’s why we like…

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Four Versions Of Super Mario Bros. Compared

12:18 pm PST • February 15, 2007

Top-left, clockwise: NES, Generation NEX System, FC Twin System, Wii (VC) The guys over at Ars Technica must have some free time. Seems Ben Kuchera took time out of his…

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Expensive NES Games/Shirts Hit eBay

10:10 am PST • February 12, 2007

The Nintendo World Championship NES cartridge is one of the rarest and most sought after “games” for the Nintendo Entertainment System in existence. I’ve seen it around before but only…

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NES RetroPort Shakes Off The Dust

4:20 pm PST • February 7, 2007

Let’s face it our hands and brain are stuck in the past when it comes to playing Mario and Tetris, the Wii-motes just don’t cut it. The spacing of the…

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Super Nintendo Meets TiVo, Falls In Love

8:39 am PST • December 12, 2006

It’s almost always a good thing when you can integrate one of the 10 devices next to your TV with another. It saves room and space, and you’ve got a…