I have an awkward confession to make: growing up, I never owned a SNES. I had a NES but then no other console until the N64. My dad brought an Olivetti 8086 PC home from the office, and I was much ...

When Nintendo discontinued the totally awesome, immensely popular MiniNES, a $60 adorably miniature version of the classic NES preloaded with 30 games, it seemed to make no damn sense. It was rumored ...

The NES Classic may be discontinued, but a possible SNES Classic Edition may be on the horizon. Nintendo introduced its miniature NES console to the world last year as a reimagining of the 1985 ...

The SNES Classic Mini does exactly what you'd expect, though in places not as well as you'd hope. Everybody has been talking about the stock situation before all else with pretty good reason, but with ...

Walmart set its SNES Classic Edition preorder page live last night at around 11:30 p.m. Eastern. Walmart started taking orders for the Super Nintendo Mini without warning or fanfare, leaving a lot of ...

Just yesterday we reported on ABC's report "Nuts for Nintendo," which showed us the insane demand for NES games back in Christmas of 1988. In 2016, that age-old artificial demand spirit was ...

Last week's sudden announcement that Nintendo was discontinuing production of the NES Mini, its breakout novelty item that remains in high demand, was confounding. Does Nintendo hate money, or its ...

Last year, Nintendo surprised the world when -- after abstaining from the category for years -- it unexpectedly released a plug-n-play version of its first runaway hit console, the Nintendo ...

Eurogamer’s report this morning that Nintendo is working on an “SNES Mini” plug-and-play console in the style of the NES Classic Edition (according to “sources close to the company”) isn’t too ...

The Nintendo Switch fits in the palm of your hand, but how about an SNES that fits in the tongue of your shoe?

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