Enlarge / We wish we had better news to report about Nintendo’s first easy-to-access N64 collection in a long time. Alas. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Nintendo) On Monday, Nintendo released its latest collection of emulated N64 games—and its first since the Wii U’s Virtual Console—as a package of games exclusively available on its Switch consoles. […]
Enlarge / We’re well past the days of CRT TVs by default, and Nintendo Europe’s latest welcome update acknowledges this. (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On Monday, Nintendo of Europe announced a very region-specific—and era-specific—tweak for its upcoming collection of N64 games on Switch: an option to switch between the video standards PAL and […]
Enlarge / Get N(S) or get out. (credit: Nintendo / Sam Machkovech) On Thursday, the latest Nintendo Direct presentation confirmed something most Nintendo fans had either suspected, hoped for, or predicted (based on a recent FCC “controller” tip ): the N64 is finally back. Instead of a miniaturized N64, however, the company’s first dedicated 3D-rendering […]
Get ready for the Super Mario film, hitting theaters in a little over one year. [credit: Nintendo ] Nintendo’s “winter 2021” direct-video presentation exploded on Thursday with reveals of serious fan service coming to not only Switch consoles but also movie theaters by the end of next year. The event’s biggest pop-culture announcement was the […]
One of many Super Mario World tracks that have now been remastered from their original, high-fidelity audio samples. Classic-gaming archaeology doesn’t always revolve around digging up rare and unreleased games. Sometimes, it’s about taking well-known relics and reconstructing them from newly unearthed and higher-fidelity original component parts. As a result of this work, one of the […]