News Tagged: Awesome
News: Smart Bomb Issue One Now Available
Former Super Play artist produces awesome comic along with fellow Rare employees
If you're a UK-based SNES fan then chances are you will recall a fantastic magazine called Super Play. Easily the best publication devoted to Nintendo's 16-bit machine, the mag was especially notable for focusing on import releases (when all other magazines ignored them) and the burgeoning anime craze, which back in..
News: The Portable SNES You've Always Wanted, But Can Never Have
NOT coming soon to shop near you!
Wouldn't it be great to have a mobile SNES that you could take with you everywhere? Well, until Nintendo decides to pull its finger out and launch the DSi Virtual Console service we're all hoping and praying for, you'll have to send begging letters to industrious French hardware modder darthchris13.This talented chap has managed to cram a SNES into a smaller,..
News: Street Fighter II's Bonus Stage: Live Action Spectacular
How to destroy a car in just over a minute
Remember the bonus stage in Capcom's Street Fighter II where you had to rip a car to bits within a set time limit using nothing but your fists and feet (and a few fireballs if you were Ryu and Ken, of course)?As far as vehicular violence was concerned it was pretty sweet, but we also thought it was a bit unrealistic. Surely no one could actually do..
News: Fan-made Mother 3 Guide is All Kinds of Awesome
The English guide for the English version that never was
Nintendo's Mother series might not be all that well known here in the West, but the name Earthbound certainly is.You see, Earthbound is actually the English-language version of the Japanese Super Famicom game Mother 2: Gyiyg no Gyakushū. Its sequel - which took 11 years to produce and was published in 2006 on the GBA - was never released in..
News: Get Technical With The Science of the Mushroom Kingdom
Know your mushrooms
A student at Carnegie Mellon University known only as 'Theyab' has produced a seriously cool faux-medical manual for his/her Communication Design Fundamentals class, and rather than keep this awesome document in the classroom, they've posted it online for us all to chuckle at. The manual explains the various side-effects of different items featured in the Super Mario Bros..
News: Seriously Cool Game Boy Timeline
The Game Boy is 20!
Gadget site Gizmodo is celebrating the 20th birthday of Nintendo's Game Boy in style; the site has posted an illustrated timeline of the machine's history which goes all the way back to 1889.Along the way the timeline picks out moments of success (and failure) as well as mentioning key historical events, too.It's one of the coolest things we've seen in a while and is well worth..
