- Nintendo is mining its past heavily for the Christmas
season, as in addition to the NES Classic Edition, they also plan to come out
with the Playing With Power: Nintendo NES
Classics retrospective book on 17 games. Read more on the Prima Games site here.
- Hey, Sega also licensed their systems for new productions
years ago! Except, according to Polygon, they
kind of suck.
- From Geek, the Retroist has a fun feature on misleading
Atari 2600 box art.
- Surprisingly, the new Ghostbusters
game is just as bad
as the old one, according to Brett Makedonski of Destructoid.
- On IGN
and a bunch of other sites, a wireless receiver is now available to use PS4 and
other current gen controllers on the SNES.
- Jason Schreier of Kotaku has a
good retrospective on Final Fantasy
III for the NES.
- Surprisingly, Honest Game Trailers tackles the awful Superman 64 this week.
ON THIS DAY IN VIDEO
GAME HISTORY…
- Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour came out in 2003 for the Gamecube. It
was the second game in the Mario Golf series
and well-received during its release.
- Pokemon Crystal came out on July 29, 2001 for the Game Boy Color. Seemingly,
Nintendo is the only company releasing good games in the dog days of summer…
Video game history
information comes from GameFAQs and Moby Games. And as always, if you’d like to support the show, do so via our Amazon link.
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