![]() ![]() ![]() We can see the beginning of this trend in the NES homebrew Witch n’ Wiz (see video below), which is available here and is as awesome as anything released for the Nintendo Entertainment System three decades ago. Perhaps not surprisingly, RETRO takes an even more radical view of this NES revival than anything you see above, with this publication being of the opinion that (a) the best U.S.-released NES games remained largely unplayed in the United States in the 1980s because they were overshadowed by a small number of (in many instances over-rated) lucrative franchises (b) some of the best third-generation video games weren’t released in America at all, and are now absolutely essential gaming experiences that can be readily found via any emulator that plays Europe- and Japan-only ( “PAL” and “JP” as opposed to “NTSC” ) NES games and (c) if the current homebrew NES scene continues in its current trajectory, and if the current push to unearth archival finds (unreleased NES games from the 1980s) continues in its present trajectory, we’ll soon find ourselves saying that the best NES games weren’t released in the 1980s or 1990s at all-but the 2020s. ![]() And speaking of phones, the entire Nintendo library is now at your fingertips-literally-if you download the NES.emu emulator to your cell and use or to download any of the nearly 1,000 NES and FamiCom (Japanese Family Computer, the NES precursor) ROMs now available.Ī list of NES games available on the Nintendo Switch via Switch Online. ![]() Just so, archival “finds” have made previously unavailable NES games from the eighties available as “ROMs” playable on your cell phone (see, e.g., the video below). Nintendo lovers are making “homebrew” NES games (see, e.g., here, here, and here ) that are almost as good as original NES releases, and they’re putting them in boxes and in cartridges that are identical to those you might have found in the eighties-meaning that anyone who wants to discover “new” NES games in 2021 can do so. Always a focus of niche video game collectors, the third-most-acclaimed gaming console of all time is now something you would never expect a thirty-plus year-old piece of hardware to be: a platform for new discoveries. Nintendo -by which I mean the original Nintendo Entertainment System from the mid-1980s-is having a renaissance that no one could’ve anticipated. ![]()
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