It is a long weekend here in Canada (Canada Day!), so with Monday being a holiday I am jetting out to the lake with my wife and kids early tomorrow morning. I thought I would leave you with a few selections from my recent pool of deadly gets. Attack Animal …
Having recently sat down and watched a marathon of Game Center CX, I found that the Super Mario Bros. 2 episode was stuck in my mind. It’s been a while since I sat down and gave the disk system version of Mario 2 a good thorough play-through. Was it really …
When PCs become a popular gaming platforms in the mid 1980s, piracy was not far behind it. Copying a PC game in those early days was as easy as copying the contents off the disk onto another disk, whether that be the your hard drive, a 5.25″ floppy, or a …
In the 8-bit era video games were relatively cheap to develop. It was not unusual for a team of as little as 4 or 5 people to design, program and code an entire game. As a bi-product of this process some games were developed by smaller upstart companies, some of …
Manufactured by: Sharp Corporation / Nintendo of Japan Released by: Sharp Corporation Release Date: July 1st, 1986 The Sharp Twin Famicom is not a clone. Believe it or not, way back early in Nintendo’s jaunt into the home console business there was a time when Nintendo of Japan actually licensed …
I finally got a chance to get to the post office to pick up my package this weekend. It had been sitting there since Dec. 31st, which was all the more heart breaking. But it was well worth it when I opened up the securely fastened box to find:
In my mailbox on Dec.30th I received a couple little gems courtesy of the Feather Pluckn Famicom Shop.
There is just something about Christmas that makes me fall in love with the Famicom all over again. It could be because last year for Christmas my young and beautiful wife got me a CIB Famicom Disk System, but I am not so sure. Christmas just seems to be …