In 2002, Nintendo and a handful of its larger distributors were fined the sum of €167,8 million for artificially boosting the prices of several Nintendo products from 1991 – 1998. Games such as the Nintendo 64’s HeXen and the SNES’s Super Turrican, as well as their consoles, were sold at rigged prices in some countries.

HeXen on Nintendo 64 (12 years ago in 1997)

Because the prices of classic Nintendo console games, and the consoles themselves, were boosted, the European Union levied the fine. 

Super Turrican on SNES (16 years ago in 1993)

Nintendo’s share, a whopping €134,5 million, was reduced to €107.4 million by a judge in late April of 2009, due to the company’s financial crisis and its long running cooperation with the case. The total of the fines levied against Nintendo and its distributors still reached more than €150 million.
Read the entire story at Channel 4.

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, initially released for the GameCube and following in a long line of Donkey Kong franchise games, was released May 4, 2009 for the Nintendo Wii.

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat for GameCube

The game has been updated to be compatible with more traditional Wii controllers and the designers have added even more moves to the ape, swinging him a far cry off from the barrel-tossing gorilla from the original arcades and platform games of the eighties.

Donkey Kong Jungle Beat for Wii

Levels have been remastered and updated, as well. In this version of the game, Donkey Kong is the hero and will avenge the destruction of his jungle at the hands of some banana stealing baddies.
Donkey Kong Jungle Beat has a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of USD $29.99.

Retro gamers who are fed up with the blinking screen, the black void of nothingness, and the unreliable play that is unfortunately quite common in the classic gaming experience, can now watch a short, ten-minute video that will outline the appropriate way to clean retro gaming cartridges in order to provide better connections and more reliable play.

How to clean your classic game cartridges

Preceded by a humorous, fake infomercial from the Old School Fool at VideoGameCentral, the video shows how the common person can rescue his or her cartridges from corrosion inexpensively and easily. The instructions for the video may also be downloaded at the site for gamers who are more inclined to follow a hard copy of concrete instructions, as opposed to a “how-to” video.

Retro gamers who own the coveted iPhone can flip open their devices now and look upon old school gaming wallpapers, thanks to a fanmade lineup by designer CurlehMustache. Some of the featured wallpapers include Street Fighter, Duck Tales, Mega Man and the Lost Planet, but there are many more obscure titles from the eighties and nineties available.

Old school gaming wallpapers for Iphone

To add more available wallpapers, CurlehMustache created a thread along with instructions on how best to upload personal favorites. There are also featured instructions for downloading the available wallpapers. Read all about these fanmade classics at Capcom.

LucasArts intends to release Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings for the Nintendo Wii in June of 2009.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

Within this adventure game, Indiana Jones will again brandish a whip as a weapon and wear the same classic hat and jacket that retro gamers will recall from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade or Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine from the Nintendo 64. Also included in the Staff of Kings, however, gamers will find a re-airing of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings

LucasArts has decided to include the classic 1992 adventure game exclusively as part of the Staff of Kings packaging. The Fate of Atlantis will be included in its original form instead of an updated reworking, and will be featured in its entirety.