At this point, we’re used to modern computers being able to perform near-perfect emulation of older gaming hardware via software trickery. The latest project from Tom “Tom7” Murphy, though, seems ...

These days, it’s possible to get a single-board computer the size of a stick of gum. This will give you the power to emulate thousands of games and you can run one off batteries inside a handheld of ...

My neighbour was cleaning out her garage and came across an original NES with a box of about 10 games. She figured my kids would have fun with some of those old games. I knew those things were ...

Update: The Analogue Super Nt has already sold out. The console was difficult to purchase right away, with the website failing to allow for checkout, but it did eventually work if customers were ...

The Nintendo Entertainment System or NES was arguably the system that kickstarted the videogame industry as we know it today - with many of Nintendo's iconic franchises like Super Mario, The Legend of ...

Ancient tech showcase: How far can you go in emulating old PC technology on an even older console? One programmer set out to answer this challenging question, relying on an array of software tricks to ...

The x86 processor family is for the time being, the most ubiquitous type of processor in the PC world, and has been since the 1980s when the IBM PC came on the scene. Emulating these older devices is ...

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This week as Nintendo celebrates its 130th (!) anniversary, we've taken a look back at the original Nintendo Entertainment System-- a gaming console that started many life-long love affairs with ...

The SNES Classic Edition may look different than the NES Classic Edition, and obviously the two miniaturized consoles run a different set of games. But on the inside, the two systems are exactly the ...

The NPD has released its data for the month of June, and the big hardware winner for the month was Nintendo's NES Classic Mini. Results for the US market for the month of June 2018 have been released ...