SNES

Nintendo Spotting: Generic SNES edition

Infendo reader Dave writes: “I was at a book sale the other day and picked up The Macmillan Visual Dictionary, which is an amazing resource with picture references of anything you can think of. There is a section called ‘indoor games’ which includes a ‘Video Entertainment System.’ It’s actually the greatest console ever made by Nintendo, the Super NES! Too bad t...

Virtual Console Monday – Harvest Moon and Lords Of Thunder

Two cult classics get a Virtual Console release this week: Harvest Moon – SNES – 1997 – 800 Wii Points You bought the farm, so now it’s time to roll up your sleeves and try living off the fat of the land. Your challenge is to dig in and build your life as a farmer from the ground up. How you manage will determine the outcome, but remember: You always reap what you sow. Lord...

CNET agrees with Infendo – SNES best console

Don Reisinger of CNET blogged about the best console ever and he picked the SNES.  This concurs with Infendo’s recent poll on a similar subject, where our faithful readers chose it above all other Nintendo consoles.  Big difference with his post, though, is that he claims it to be superior over all consoles. You picked SNES above other Nintendo systems, but do you think it deserves to be c...

The WiiWare folder: King Arthur’s World

While driving amongst the frozen snowbanks of Massachusetts today, I had an epiphany. Or a revelation. Or something. Basically, I wanted to play a new, updated, wonderfully 2-D version of Jaleco’s Super Nintendo maserpiece King Arthur’s World on either the Wii or the DS. Since I’m a sucker for video games (Nintendo in particular), I figured this could be the beginning of a series...

Nintendo Spotting: Chrono cosplay edition

No, that’s definitely not a Big Daddy. He is, however, also from another great game you might have heard of.

The Blue Ocean is deep

I worry this morning that the table has been set for a repeat of the early 1990’s. The industry is healthy, with two of the three console makers selling their wares briskly, and the slow trickle of software that was the first six months of the “next generation” is set to increase as we head into and out of the summer doldrums. Well, it’s set to increase in the Nintendo corn...

Mother 3 music soothes the soul

Any Mother 3 fans out there? Word on the street there are plenty, as well as plenty of angst about the fat that this game has not been localized for the North American audience. Sacrilege, some say, if they know what the word sacrilege means. If not, they probably say poopsky. Today however, in what could be seen as both throwing fans a bone and rubbing salt in their wounds at the same exact time,...