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Sympathy for the Vampire: Castlevania II Is Way Better Than People Give It Credit For
STARTING SCREEN | Happy 30th anniversary, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest! You're not a perfect game, but you're a damn ambitious one.
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The Famicom Legacy
Jeremy Parish explores the many ways in which the NES continues to affect gaming and gamers 30 years after the system's debut.
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Metroid Game By Game Reviews: Metroid
Nintendo's classic sci-fi adventure can be a tough sell today, but it redefined action games.
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Konami's NES Box Art: So Good, So Bad
Konami deserves to be singled out in the grand, ongoing discussion about video game box art -- though not always for the best reasons.
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Nadia's Midboss Musings: Let's Celebrate Good NES Box Art for a Change
Sometimes this stuff was really, really cool.
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Only '90s Kids Want to Remember: Game Genie's "Thank You Canada" Ad
Totally an innocent "Thank You" note and not engineered to tempt US buyers into crossing the border. Scout's honor!
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All I Want in Life is an Authentic NES Controller
STARTING SCREEN | Sometimes a real controller can make all the difference. Plus: Hail to the Hungry Crab, 7th Saga, and a new addition to the USgamer team!
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Retro Game Fans Get Riled Up by the Twitter Poll from Hell
You need to make a choice. What's it gonna be, kid?
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Nadia's Midboss Musings: Learning About Capitalism the Bart Simpson Way
To love video games as a child was to quickly discover that some game-makers weren't obligated to offer you a fun experience for your cash.
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"Nuts for Nintendo" 20/20 Video from the '80s Proves the More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
"Chip shortages?" Still got 'em. "Games make kids violent?" Check. "Japan will eat American industry alive?" Well ... that remained in the past, thankfully.
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Rough Entry: My First Zelda Game Was Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Zelda II has problems, but it should also be praised for showing us a side of Hyrule we usually don't get to see.
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USgamer Community Question: What's the Best Game-Related Deal You Ever Found?
The USGamer team dishes on their most successful bargains for games and systems!
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The Time a Japanese Famicom Game Tried to Simulate American Presidential Politics
As the 2016 presidential election finally comes to a close, we look back on Japan's optimistic take on American electoral politics.
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Red Dead Redemption's Curious 8-Bit Origin Story
How 2017's Western juggernaut can trace its family history all the way back to the frontier days of 1985.
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Retronauts' 8-Bit Superhero Sampler Returns with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Batman
This week on USgamer's classic gaming podcast, we look into two of the more memorable comic book games on the NES.
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NES Classic Edition Hands-On Impression: Big on Fun, Light on Features
Nintendo's mini console certainly does what it's supposed to, but not much else.
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At 30, Castlevania May be Dead, But Its Influence Lingers Beyond The Grave
Happy anniversary, Simon Belmont! Too bad your bloodline is as deceased as Dracula himself.
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Retronauts Rumbles with the History of Punch-Out!!
This week on USgamer's classic gaming podcast, we dig into the surprisingly deep history of Nintendo's gloriously cartoony take on pugilism.
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Retronauts Micro Presents an 8-Bit Superhero Sampler
This week on USgamer's classic gaming podcast, we dissect two of the earliest (and worst) superhero games the NES has to offer: Superman and The Uncanny X-Men.
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Stream: Kat Makes Her Ninja Gaiden Run at 4pm PT/7pm ET.
RETRO: Kat runs through one of her favorite NES games of yore.
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The Legend of Zelda's Only Cartoon Aspired to Competence in a Landscape of Trash
It might not have been the most faithful adaptation, but Link's animated adventures stood slightly above typical kids' TV dreck.
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The History of RPGs: How Dragon Quest Redefined a Genre
COVER STORY: 30 years ago, a small team of Japanese game designers changed the way the world looked at role-playing games.
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Virtual Spotlight: StarTropics, the Zelda-like that Kinda Hates You
This short-lived Nintendo series never escaped the 8-bit era, but its two games—now available on Wii U—bring plenty of memorable moments (and lots of pain).
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A Newly Revealed Easter Egg Showcases the Surprising Depth of Punch-Out!!
By carefully watching a spectator, you can turn Little Mac into One-Punch Man.
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Long Time Coming: Finishing the Original Legend of Zelda in 2016
Kat finally got the original Zelda off her bucket list this year. Here's what she found.
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USstreamer: Celebrate David Bowie with Labyrinth [Update: Archived on YouTube!]
Tune in and watch Bob play two very different interpretations of the 1986 Jim Henson classic.
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Legend of Love: The Making of The Battle of Olympus
Infinity's Yukio Horimoto explains how his NES cult classic was a literal labor of love.
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Cover Story: 30 Years of NES, 30 Interesting NES Facts
Big historic developer interviews a little tl;dr for your caffeine-addled mind? Try these 30 easy, bite-sized tidbits about the NES instead.
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How Marty McFly Saved Video Games
Wild Gunman may be a relic today, but it had a vital role to play in the past, present, and future.
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The Birth of Japanese Console Games
Our comprehensive look back at the coming-of-age of Japanese console games 30 years ago.
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Super Mario Bros. 2 Creator Kensuke Tanabe on Super Mario Maker's Missing Piece
Does the director of the oddball NES classic feel snubbed over his game's absence in Nintendo's upcoming game design tool?