Distant Arcade — Future blogger fun time video games action.
Everything and their dogs wanted a PS5 on launch and while the demand has died down since then, it’s still the most coveted console right now. Compare that to the Game Boy Micro, the final console in the Game Boy line, released in 2005. It was £99 compared to the PS5’s £449 price tag, sold …
Game Boy: The Box Art Collection celebrates the finest GB cover artwork from the 8-bit handheld masterpiece.
Don’t bother with the ‘Frankenstein was the doctor, not the monster’ joke. You hear me?!
Isn’t the Gamecube intro jingle infectious? But like in a non-fatal way and something you can share with friends and family within a 2m radius.
Before the Wii U took the mantle as Nintendo’s “worst” console (at least in terms of commercial success), the N64 was seen as a disappointment compared to its peers of the time. Retaining a cartridge-based gaming system when other consoles were using CDs and after the opportunity to collaborate with Sony had gone awry due …
Using Python, neural networks, and deep Q-learning, you can train a bot to play Super Mario Kart.
What else really needs to be said about the Nintendo Entertainment System, the greatest console ever in my opinion? OK, I can say a lil’ bit.
Watch as Odd Tinkering transforms a filthy $2 Game Boy Color, sold as not working, into a fully operation handheld console.
Every wanted to play N64 on a VR headset? Well, now you can thanks to Avaer Kazmer’s N64 VR emulation kit.
TASBot goes wild on a Super Mario for your amusement and Games Done Quick.
If you can find some coins down the back of your sofa, consider investing in shares in a sealed copy of Super Mario Bros. worth $150,000.
You wouldn’t think DOOM and Super Mario would work in a game but this mod proves that idea wrong.
The battle for 16-bit supremacy was era-defining. But what if the SNES had the Sega Genesis’s sound chip?
Everything from Chrono Trigger to Donkey Kong Country features on this 3-hour SNES music YouTube playlist. ASMR didn’t exist in the 90s but new age music did. It’s a genre that gets a bad rep but if Enya made video game soundtracks, maybe they’d sound like some of these tracks. For all its technological advances, …
Few games have considerably ramped up my anxiety levels in my time on this planet (nearly 30 years).
A Xbox fan has installed the XQEMU Xbox emulator onto his Nintendo Switch. Nintendo are ready to launch another version of the Nintendo Switch this year but the original won’t be left in the digital dust. Hackers have worked on getting all kinds of emulators onto the system since a hardware-based exploit was discovered last …
This awesome Game Boy mod uses Avengers stickers and some spare time.
Kow tells his long but worthwhile tale of becoming an amiibo collector.
Goodness me.
The big grey brick is 30 years old today and, thanks to a modding community, still lives a supreme life.