The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, first launched in America on October 18th, 1985. That was the date it launched its test market, and then it would release nationwide in 1986. Even after ...

Nintendo of America made a huge announcement on Thursday when the company revealed the NES Classic Edition will once again be ...

The Nintendo Entertainment System gave the console video game industry the adrenaline injection it needed after the market crash in the early ’80s. One of the reasons the NES was such a success is ...

The Nintendo Entertainment System brought the video game industry out of the doldrums of the early ’80s, bringing many great games directly into players’ homes. One genre that was especially popular ...

At least in theory, video games are more resistant to becoming lost media thanks to their digital nature — they’re easy to ...

Every NES player remembers that one game that broke controllers and nerves alike. These demanded sharp memory, steady hands, and endless retries. Only the stubborn pushed through and kept going. But ...

iam8bit has partnered with the Video Game History Foundation, Mega Cat Studios, and Retrotainment Games to bring programmer Chris Oberth’s long-long Nintendo Entertainment System game Xcavator back ...

Modern video game consoles rarely have expansion ports, but in the 80s and 90s it was practically guaranteed. With the speed that hardware was advancing it made sense to build in some way to upgrade a ...