The Tetris community has reached another major milestone, with 16-year-old Michael "dogplayingtetris" Artiaga becoming the first player to clear level 255 and achieve the mythical "rebirth" — ...

Ideally, you’d expect any Super NES console—if properly maintained—to operate identically to any other Super NES unit ever made (in the same region, at least). Given the same base ROM file and the ...

Michael has been writing about entertainment since 2016, but he's been a gamer since playing Pac-Man in the arcade, Kings Quest 3 on the PC, and the Sega Master System he got from his late father. In ...

Have you ever wanted to play some of the video games you grew up with? There’s nothing like taking a trip down memory lane with our 8-bit heroes of yesteryear, but not everyone has a classic console ...

Modern gaming hardware is extremely powerful. Lightning-fast SSDs and high-end GPUs capable of ray tracing power help power the latest gaming consoles and PCs. However, for all of their hardware might ...

An SNES hacker is developing widescreen support for Super Mario World that will take the 4:3 aspect ratio title and convert it to a resolution that works well with today’s modern displays. While ...

Officially, the NES died in 1995, some nine years after its launch. Unofficially, though, dedicated fans are keeping Nintendo's retro console very much alive. Today, the most prolific and respected ...

A brand new app is promising to transform your old Nintendo Entertainment System into a fully functioning synthesiser. The free application from developers Avicr, titled SynthNes, allows the user to ...

The NES Classic has an interesting history. Following its incredibly successful launch back in 2017, Nintendo discontinued the product but began manufacturing it again only a few months after ...

I play a lot of retro games, and quite honestly, playing them in 4:3 is absolutely fine with me. I even play a lot of games on 9×16 vertical monitors, but I do love the occasional arcade shooter.

Modern Tetris has added a surprising number of additional gameplay features that make it play quite a bit differently from the classic versions. Some of those, like the hold queue and T-spin scoring, ...