IGN - The imagination is a wonderful thing. In the 1980s, games didn't have the resources to convey characters, emotion, and attitude in an effective way. Players combined exaggerated box art imagery, limited info from the instruction manual, and a game's 8-bit actuality to forge realities in their minds. Nearly 30 years after the launch of the NES, these worlds are larger and more detailed than most youngsters could have dreamed.
Who doesn't love a good challenge? If everything was easy, there would be no joy in getting it done. In the realm of video games, the late 1980s and 1990s were the perfect era of "get good" gaming with multiple big-named titles that put a player's skills to the test. The Super Nintendo, one of
In a major crackdown, Italy's financial police have dismantled a ring trafficking counterfeit vintage video game consoles, highlighting a severe issue within the gaming industry. The operation underscores the industry's failure to preserve classic games, driving gamers toward illegal alternatives as legitimate options remain scarce and prohibitively expensive.
Even if they do crack down all a person needs is an Everdrive and a regular old school machine. Or modify a disc based console that has a dead laser to boot off an SD card. Some of those illegal devices look neat and some of them are just plain crap.
What a stupid thing to be wasting time, money and effort. Aren't these guys literally drowning right now? Maybe y'all should focus more on that instead trying to stop people from playing old games no longer being sold.
Fallout content creator The Storyteller has passed away after a year-long battle with cancer, reveals daughter.
Um, IGN, where's Sweet Sweetback?