Latest Video: Dive into Nintendo Magic! (Episode 12: Nintendo)

Uploaded: October 21, 2024

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Peripheral Vision: Beeshu Zipper NES Controller

Peripheral Vision: Beeshu Zipper NES Controller Being the youngest sibling usually relegated you to using the cheap, third-party controller that hardly ever worked. Even more so if you went to your friend’s house and they handed you some strange controller nobody had ever heard of. Well it seems Beeshu Inc. knew that feeling all too well when they designed and created […]

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Peripheral Vision: Super 8 by Innovation for the SNES

Peripheral Vision: Super 8 by Innovation for the SNES Is it a Famiclone? Is it a peripheral? Well, it’s actually both! These days, it seems, at least a few times a year we read news of an upcoming video game console packing the necessary hardware, or software, to run multiple systems from a single unit. With the likes of the Retron5, among many others, […]

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The Art of Cheating 2: A Little Help From My Friends!

The Art of Cheating 2: A Little Help From My Friends! Most vintage gamers prefer to play video games as they were intended, trying over and over to get just 1 more level and feel our hard work has paid off. Others will only try so many times before they pull out an old issue of Nintendo Power, look up a walkthrough, or find cheat codes. […]

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Game Boy Carry All by Nexoft / Asciiware

Game Boy Carry All by Nexoft / Asciiware The Nexoft Gameboy Carry All was something I was seriously wanting to add to the portable storage article I wrote a while back, but I couldn’t manage to win one off ebay until recently. Although I’ve never seen one out in the wild I wouldn’t consider these storage cases to be rare, but they seem […]

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Aftermarket Game Boy Color Housing

Aftermarket Game Boy Color Housing Looking at the image above you may find it difficult to tell which one is the authentic yellow Game Boy Color and which has an aftermarket replacement housing. The authentic yellow is on the right and the aftermarket is on the left, but once you look a little closer the differences start to become apparent. […]

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Retro Rechargeables

Retro Rechargeables Like many vintage gaming fans, my first portable system was the Nintendo Game Boy. What I didn’t realize at the time was just how power hungry the little thing was, like a portable video game dictator. As the frequency of “Mom (or Dad), I need batteries for my Game Boy!” reached a fevered pitch, my […]

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