Mega Man vs. Hard Hat, using every unique weapon and utility item from Mega Man 1-6, Mega Man I-V (Game Boy), Mega Man 7-8, Mega Man & Bass, Mega Man Powered Up, and Mega Man 9.

My question is this: why didn’t Dr. Wiley give each of the robot masters these hard hats to wear? That [...]

The Metroid series of games has always been one of my favorites. Few other games have captured as well the sense of isolation, mystery and exploration. While Super Metroid is definitely my favorite of the bunch, Metroid 2 was the favorite GameBoy game in my collection when I was younger. Wandering around Planet SR388’s caverns [...]

Spotted on TinyCartridge.com.

“Mikulunker” the Spelunker music and sound effects made entirely with Hatsune Miku Vocaloid software. Not only does this replace the original music and sound with Miku vocals, from what I can pick up, those vocals also describe the action, literal music video style. For example, the ghost theme now has the lyrics “obake [...]

Tabloid news show Inside Edition takes a hard, abrasive look at the latest fad sweeping the Nation: Super Mario Bros. and Nintendo.

Bonus points to anyone who can identify my favorite NES game, shown at 2:41!

It’s amazing what some individuals can accomplish with antique hardware. Someone managed to recreate the first level of the SNES game Contra III: The Alien Wars / Contra Spirits in a form playable on an NES emulator.
SNES original:

NES port:

Spotted at Silicon Era.

Japanese game commercials are awesome.

SEGA’s Genesis system offered a lot in expandability. You could add Master System compatability, a CD-ROM attachment or a secondary procesing system called the 32x. The 32x was a substantial upgrade to the Genesis’ hardware and allowed for some fantastic video and audio effects. Check out this technical demonstration video that shows what this piece [...]

Stop-motion animation is rarely seen anymore in motion pictures. Once the special effect of choice to create fantastic creatures, landscapes and action sequences, computer animation is now the method of choice to create on-screen effects that don’t appear to have had one espresso too many. But what do you get when you combine found objects, [...]

By far my favorite run-and-gun series has been Metal Slug. Originally for SNK’s NeoGeo hardware, this series has been ported to various other systems. SNK Playmore has been working on the seventh title in the series set to be released for the Nintendo DS. A preview video has been released showing a few minutes of [...]