Ever have the desire to step into the ring with Mike Tyson? One man made this a reality by hacking a Kinect unit to play Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!

Valentine’s Day is such a hard holiday to shop for. This list will help if your love is a gamer. Join me as we go on a journey of pure gaming awesomeness.

It seems that a prototype of the original The Legend of Zelda for the Famicom Disk System has surfaced. This earlier prototype features different dungeon layouts …

This week I was able to obtain a decent amount of Nintendo goods. I was able to pick up …

Nazo no Murasamejō was released for the Famicom Disk System on April 14, 1986. Since then this title has never left Japan even though it has been re-released as part of the Famicom Mini series for the Game Boy Advance and was also put on the …

I recently found out that I can play PSX games on my Droid phone. That was a good day. It was also a day that my productivity plummeted. I found a lot of the same games I played as a kid, and got hours of nostalgic enjoyment from it. With the growing power of cell [...]

Joy Mecha Fight was released in Japan on May 23, 1993 for the Famicom. For those who don’t know the Famicom is the Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System. This fighting game never …

Life is just one long chain of events that came incredibly close to not happening. From evolution to electricity, many of the most historically important events of our lives were just as close to not happening as they were to happening. More importantly than stuff like human beings evolving from the primordial ooze or some [...]

I had an Atari when I was a kid, but I didn’t really become a gamer until I got an NES.  I played a ton of games on there, and thanks to Virtual Console I can be easily reminded how hard some of those games were.  Sivak Games is bringing back that feeling of anger [...]

My tendency to go with overly descriptive and often lengthy headlines sort of leaves me grasping for additional things to say in the body copy at times. This isn’t one of them. The video below showcases an NES remake of Left 4 Dead, complete with instantaneous vanishing bodies and bloodless kills. Remind of you of [...]

Video game music is something we don’t cover enough here on Ripten, and it’d probably be best to remedy that- starting with Jake Kaufman’s (virt) awesome cover of Katamari on the Rock, known colloquially as the Katamari theme song. But unlike the original song done with a full orchestra, Kaufman’s cover is done with a [...]

Ever wonder what Radiohead’s song ‘Creep’ would sound like pumping through the digital soundsystem of a classic NES? Wonder no more, because it would sound pretty much exactly like what it does here.

Windows XP on your Nintendo Entertainment System? What if it meant you could play all of your favorite games without ever having to blow into the ass end of a cartridge ever again? Now we’re talking! Using an Intel mini-ITX mobo, modder cbutters was able to create a retro console that you can easily plug [...]

If you are new to the web series titles “Legend of Neil”, it is based off of exactly what you think it is based off of — The Legend of Zelda. This version however, is something that would never get the Nintendo family seal of approval. Neil’s journey to the videogame world of Hyrule begins [...]

Ah, eBay. The wonderful online marketplace full of miscellaneous crap that no one can be arsed to put on store shelves. The latest offering falling under the “do want” category is oceanic234′s complete collection of every single NES game ever produced- well, at least the ones produced in grey carts. Citing family troubles as the [...]