The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the United States on 18 October 1985: about a year after I was born, and 40 years ago today. It’s as if the company sensed that a sucker who’d spend thousands of dollars on plastic toys and electronic games had just entered the world. Actually, it’s as if the company had sensed that …
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Image: Damien McFerran / Nintendo Life The NES — specifically the Nintendo Entertainment System, not the Famicom — turns 40 today. The console’s staggered rollout across the US makes its launch a bittier affair than the orchestrated, worldwide drops we’re used to these days. But four decades ago, the first units were purchased in the United States and Western gamers …
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Image: Nintendo Yesterday, we published our interview with Bruce Lowry, the former vice president of sales at Nintendo of America from 1981 to 1986. In the interview, Lowry shared his insights into what it was like launching the NES in North America, told us of his regret of leaving Nintendo to form Sega of America in ’86, and also spoke …
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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube832k At the end of July, Nintendo released an update for the Switch Online Super Nintendo app adding Mario Paint. This update included mouse support (for Switch 2 Joy-Con 2 controllers and USB mouse compatibility), as well as the ability to remap buttons. The same update also featured mouse support for the …
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Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube832k At the end of July, Nintendo released an update for the Switch Online Super Nintendo app adding Mario Paint. This update included mouse support (for Switch 2 Joy-Con 2 controllers and USB mouse compatibility), as well as the ability to remap buttons. The same update also included mouse support for Nobunaga’s …
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A new Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 stealth release on the Nintendo eShop is a “must have” for NES fans and “insanely good,” according to Nintendo fans on Reddit. More than this, the recent Nintendo eShop stealth release is a console exclusive. This means it isn’t available on any console beyond the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. It …
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Image: Zion Grassl / Nintendo Life We woke up this morning to the excellent news that Nintendo has added Mario Paint to the Nintendo Switch Online SNES library, along with mouse control support for Nobunaga’s Ambition and Mario Super Picross. However, you may have missed another new feature of the Super NES app on Switch 1 and 2: remappable buttons, …
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Stir your creativity with Mario Grab your favorite smock and palette, because the Mario Paint™ game is now available to play with a Nintendo Switch Online* membership! Connect a compatible USB mouse (sold separately) to play the game on your Nintendo Switch™ system. If you’re playing on a Nintendo Switch 2 system, you can use the Joy-Con™ 2 controller like …
Read More »Hey all, Ernie here with a bigger refresh than usual. In honor of the Game Genie’s 35th anniversary this month, here’s a deeply rewritten version of a 2015 Tedium piece on the device. Nearly every section has been completely rebuilt wholesale. Something happened very recently that makes this classic device relevant to the current moment. Can you guess what it …
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