Sure, it was vastly inferior to its nemesis Game Boy — not to mention, the size of a brick — but the people who had one loved it, and continue to do so this day. Isn’t that worth a second look?

Announcement is Japan-only for now, console is coming in October.

An alleged official Nintendo Game Boy Advance emulator called Sloop has been found, suggesting GBA games may head to Switch Online (NSO).

"giving people an indication of what the plan is helps"

Al Nilsen, a former Sega of America marketing director, tells it like this: There was a time in the early 1990s where Sonic the Hedgehog was more popular in the United States than Mickey Mouse. He’s based this on something called a “Q Score,” or “quotient score,” which ranks consumer appeal and familiarity of brands, assigned by a company called Marketing Evaluations.

A video game reseller has discovered hundreds of factory-sealed Nintendo and Sega games from the 80s and 90s inside a storage facility in Nebraska.

Watch out Tetris, Nintendo’s classic handheld console has a new and popular puzzle game

Retro Gamer takes an in-depth look at the strengths, influence, and legacy of the N64 with veteran developers

The journey everyone was on. And I mean everybody.

Arcade Club is Europe's largest venue for vintage games like "Pac-Man" and "Asteroid". David Lyne wouldn’t call himself one of England’s best arcade players, but a world record and a series of leaderboards with his name at the top tell a different story.

Nintendo's new tier for the Switch Online service has raised some concerns about future support for the SNES and NES libraries. Will games continue to be added to this service, or is Nintendo done with these older retro libraries for good? It seems there's no need to worry. Axios writer, Stephen Totilo, has been informed by Nintendo that more games will continue to be added to the original membership service.

Nintendo may be finally ready to bring its storied handheld gaming library to the Nintendo Switch — Game Boy and Game Boy Color titles will soon join the 100-plus NES and SNES games that it offers via its Switch Online subscription service, according to rumors from the “Nate the Hate” podcast, corroborated by Nintendo Life on Tuesday and now again on Friday by Eurogamer. It’s not every day we see a Nintendo rumor that strong.

The controller for the original Nintendo Entertainment System is a classic, but perhaps not best known for its adherence to good ergonomic principles.

Fashionably late

Did someone say Power Glove? Plenty of super-clever, super-talented researchers across the globe have been pretty busy trying to save the world recently, but hey, even scientists need to work on something fun every once and a while.

Inverse tracked down six core team from Rare’s golden years to take a stroll down memory lane towards the developers' own Gruntilda’s Lair in Twycross, England.

Have you ever picked up a forgotten handheld and thought: “I want to play you, but I know I’ll have to charge you.”? What If I said you’d barely have to worry about charging your device again for the rest of your life? Well, one YouTuber has an unconventional solution: a nuclear-powered Tetris game.

Sealed copy of 1996 game quickly shatters rare Legend of Zelda’s two-day-old record

Welcome back to June 1991, a year of great games and some not so great games. I was going to traumatise you all by reminding you of Gilbert, the snotty alien from that Saturday morning show but then remembered there are much better games to talk about. Still, if I have to remember him so do you so enjoy the image.

Oil massages, mantras, zombie kidnappings, and more—with ROM-hacked footage to prove it.