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  • NES Classic Edition: The Gizmodo Review

    NES Classic Edition: The Gizmodo Review

    Nothing shaped my childhood more than Nintendo. Like millions of other little kids, I got a Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas in 1988. It changed my life. At the age of six, the Nintendo was my first real “gadget,” and it was love at first sight. I don’t know if I would do what I…


  • A Clever Way To Make The Legend Of Zelda Beat Itself

    A Clever Way To Make The Legend Of Zelda Beat Itself

    Arbitrary code injection is fascinating stuff. Intrepid gamers have discovered hidden glitch worlds, turned Mario into Flappy Bird or performed a standard action so many times that it crashes the game. The original Legend of Zelda is susceptible too — as glitch hunter Sockfolder found out — and executing the following instructions skips past the…


  • NES Analogue Nt Review: It Ruined My Childhood

    NES Analogue Nt Review: It Ruined My Childhood

    One Christmas morning in 1989, I opened a big present, bigger than me. It was the Nintendo Entertainment System, complete with PowerPad and Zapper. Nearly three decades later, I unboxed a futuristic block of aluminium: an NES clone called the Analogue Nt. And I felt that childhood glee all over again.


  • Nintendo Has A New (Mini) NES With 30 Built-In Games

    While we’ve all been distracted by Pokemon GO, Nintendo has been working on a new surprise for lovers of nostalgia. The Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition looks like a tiny version of the original, comes packed with 30 classic games, and will be hitting shelves in Australia on 10 November.