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Mint condition Super Mario Bros. NES cart sells for $660,000

By Darryn Bonthuys
April 6, 2021
in :  Gaming
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Turns out that the best investment for retirement these days isn’t GameStop stonks that’ll take you straight to the moon, but rather video games! Before you start hoarding all those old 32-in1 TV game cartridges though, it’s worth noting that it’s good video games in mint condition that’ll secure you a hefty payday.

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Someone paid $156,000 for a mint condition copy of Super Mario Bros. 3

By Darryn Bonthuys
November 23, 2020
in :  Gaming
1

I mean that’s just stupid. You can get it on the Nintendo Switch for the price of a cup of coffee.

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Friday Debate – Are retro games overrated?

By Darryn Bonthuys
July 12, 2019
in :  Gaming, Opinion
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You might be shaking your fist right now, moaning that back in your day, there was no DLC. There were no season passes, games that needed hourly patches and services being delivered piecemeal to you on a weekly basis while you paid monthly for the privilege to play those games. No sir, you’d pop a cart into a machine, switch your console on, switch it off, take the cart back out, blow the dust off of it and then you’d play a game. Simple as that. No long-ass loading screens, just simple plug in and play gameplay. That’s how games of that age were the best. Bollocks.

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Cyber Knight to be published by Shovel Knight developer Yacht Club

By Brad Lang
March 28, 2019
in :  Gaming
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Cyber Knight has been a labour of love for one man, one Aarne “Mekaskull” Hunziker under the studio name Mechanical Head. The guy has been developing Cyber Knight by himself for the better part of a decade now, pouring all his free time and energy into making something that looks, admittedly, really cool.

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Konami celebrates Golden Jubilee with Anniversary Collections, Castlevania and Contra included

By Brad Lang
March 20, 2019
in :  Gaming
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So a couple of days back now, there was a bit of a hole in a dam concerning a potential Castlevania Anniversary Collection via a rating from the Australian Government’s Department of Communications and the Arts. The rating suggested that Konami were bundling some of the older Castlevania games together and re-releasing them for newer consoles. Well, as it turns …

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A 30-year-old unreleased wrestling game for the NES has been discovered

By Sam Spiller
March 8, 2019
in :  Gaming
4

Entertainment discoveries are hugely exciting events. Rare is the occasion that an old film or TV show episode is found in an attic or with someone who is completely oblivious as to what their treasure they possess. In this case, it’s a game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was not even announced, let alone released. The game is entitled …

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Combined sales of the NES and SNES Classic are on track to surpass the Wii U’s lifetime efforts

By Darryn Bonthuys
February 6, 2019
in :  Gaming
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It is the future year 2012. Nintendo is hot to trot and it’s all thanks to the Wii console. A phenomenon that connected young and old alike, the Wii was a blazing success thanks to its ability to streamline game controls and offer something different to fans with its motion-based hardware. How would would the big N evolve from here? That question would be answered with the Wii U. Sweet Shiggy, it was awful.

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SNES games could be coming to the Nintendo Switch

By Darryn Bonthuys
January 14, 2019
in :  Gaming
7

Data Miners happen to have uncovered a treasure trove of games of SNES games, that look like they’ll be headed straight to Nintendo Switch Online.

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