The Legend of Zelda. The game with the legendary golden cartridge. If you had this game in your collection then you were legendary. You could save your game, something unknown to NES gamers at the time. Passwords and grey cartridges were for the peasants. (I don’t know who the black unlicensed TenGen carts were for… witches maybe?) If you had the gold cart you had the Holy Grail. You were playground royalty. ...
Someday the last NES or SEGA or Playstation will stop working but thanks to digital game preservation we will be able to enjoy these games for generations. This has taken various forms in the past, most notably the Wii’s Virtual Console, followed up by the 3DS and WiiU’s Virtual Console, as well as re-releases in various compilations and collections. ...
What can be said about Super Mario Bros. that hasn’t already been said. It’s probably THE video game. If you asked any random person off the street to name a video game title; even (or especially) if they had never played a video game before, there’s a good chance that “Super Mario” would come out of their mouth. It’s only one of the greatest selling games of all time. (A fact, no doubt helped by it being a pack-in title with almost every NES sold after 1986.) Some consider it the game that saved the US home console market after the US video game crash of 1983. It wasn’t the first side-scrolling platform game. But when it came out; it was the game that defined what a platformer should look like. Super Mario Bros. was the game all future side scrollers tried to emulate. ...
First published in 2022: For readers in 2025 you can also play Donkey Kong Country Returns without motion controls by purchasing “Donkey Kong Country Returns HD” for Nintendo Switch. Now back to your originally scheduled programming…. I recently purchased Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Wii from my local game shop. I had played the 3DS port before and beat it all the way through but I thought that the original version deserved its place on my shelf next to the WiiU version of DKC Tropical Freeze. I knew that the original had motion controls unlike Tropical Freeze which controls brilliantly with the WiiU Gamepad or Pro Controller. I decided to give it a go and found the Wiimote turned to its side and the tacked on motion control just to do something as simple as roll simply would not do. This wasn’t the Donkey Kong I remembered on my Super Nintendo! ...