These Nintendo Entertainment System games are fantastic within their historical context, but they aren't particularly ...

NES games like Crystalis and Dragon Quest take too long to finish.

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 ...

NES games like Battletoads and Super Mario The Lost Levels are still making gamers rage 40 years later.

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 ...

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 ...

Long-lost NES puzzle game Xcavator, initially developed in 1991 by Chris Oberth and never released, is being resurrected as a fully polished cartridge edition through a collaboration between iam8bit ...

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 ...