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Super Mario Bros is one of the most iconic video games of all time. It's the game that turned Mario into a house-hold name, the music is legendary and video games today still use Super Mario Bros. as their main source of inspiration. It was the game that was included in the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in the mid-80s so it just missed the opportunity to be on the Atari 2600. Leave it to Ch

Over the weekend, I had a chance to go to the annual Seattle Retro Gaming Expo. It was an awesome experience as many of us who all share the same passion of retro gaming (and current gaming) all crammed into the Seattle Center for shopping, demonstrations and, of course, gaming. Here's what I saw.

If you look at most Nintendo games, from NES all the way to Wii-U, you may find this Nintendo Seal of Quality. It's something Nintendo does to prove approve all products for quality of the games and other accessories they release. There were a few NES games that must have slipped through and received this stamp of approval as they're terrible for various reasons. I'd like to challenge on their so-

Today the movie industry is at a loss with the passing of Roger Ebert. A movie can make or lose a million dollars all in the power of his thumb, but he also used his thumb playing video games, apparently. In this Holiday Gift Guide from 1989, Ebert admits that he was obsessed with playing TMNT to the point that it made him unhappy.

People have their goals set for 2013. They want to lose weight or finish a project around the house they never finished - stuff like that. The good people at NintendoAge have a goal in place for their community; collectively beat every Nintendo game in 2013...

As you're probably well aware, I collect old video game systems and games, especially for the old 8-bit Nintendo (NES). Looking at a pricing guide, I found out that several games have gone up in price dramatically now that retro gaming is becoming kind of popular. Much like the guy on Hollywood Collector can assess how much your movie props are worth, I can tell you how much video game stuff is wo

Out of all the game systems I have, out of all of them I will ever get in the future, the original 8-bit Nintendo, or NES, will always be my favorite system of all time. It was just about perfect in my eyes. Many of the most popular games of all time came from Nintendo like the Mega Man series, Castlevania and more. But, certainly, with all of those Nintendo games through the years, chances are yo

On this day in history, August 22nd, 1987, The Legend of Zelda for the NES was released. A game of this magnitude, for it's time, was unheard of and got everyone set to go on an adventure in a game that would be the measuring stick for all action/rpg/adventure games to come.

Because I had them readily available, I decided to see how tall I was in NES games. With the help of my 4 year old daughter, we stacked them as high as we could. I stand at 6 foot 5 inches, but I have around 300 NES games so I was sure I had enough.

I saw this Nintendo bed set and had to share it with you. Two thoughts crossed my mind when I saw it. A.) I want one and B.) There's no way my wife would ever sleep in this so, basically, if I'm getting this, I'm getting this for myself.

Just for fun, over the weekend I hooked up my old NES so I could introduce my 6 year old and 4 year old to the beauty known as Duck Hunt. My little girls aren't really into video games, but I thought Duck Hunt would be simple and fun enough. Going through some boxes, I finally ran across it. Pulling the trigger immediately triggered memories.