Nintendo Game Boy News & Stories

SMSPower has made a bit of a name for itself in the retro gaming industry by preserving games that were unreleased, untranslated or simply unheard of. Their goal…a lofty one at that…is to preserve the entire Sega 8-bit library.

Dan Fornance is a genius to many old school gamers. Having demade Super Smash Bros. and giving it the feel of a monochromatic Game Boy title, Fornance has given fans of the many Nintendo favorite characters something more to crow about.

It is hard to believe that Tetris, one of the most cloned games ever, turned 27 years young on June 6, 2011. Tetris became incredibly popular when it was bundled with Nintendo’s GameBoy, going on to become the best-selling game on the handheld console.

Not a member of the stereotypical “Big Three”, Bandai still made plenty of handheld video gaming consoles in the retro era. Still active as late as 2003, Bandai’s WonderSwan never really hit it as big as other, more recognized names in the industry.

The E3 convention for 2011 might actually go down in history as the first such gaming conference where the retro world overshadowed pending releases. While people seemed moderately excited about the WiiU and other Nintendo goodies, the SupaBoy announcement by Hyperkin met great interest. Also raising eyebrows was the large number of retro re-releases by [...]

Pretty much all retro gamers can look back into history by simply looking over their extensive or budding classic gaming collections. In the case of Brett Weiss, however, things get a little more detailed and formal.

What? Why not? Weirder things have happened. Actually, there was no melding of these two completely different but totally cool universes except for in the brains of the gaming humor addicts at Dorkly.

Craft fairs are huge, almost as big (if not bigger) than comicons, developer’s conferences and cosplays. Ceramics, weavings, painting…it’s all good. There are likely very few crafters in the world, however, who will claim that their favorite media would include broken gaming consoles, USB drives or old T-shirts.

May 4 was Star Wars Day, born out of the notion that May the Fourth sounds ominously like “May the Force”, the beginning of the most oft quoted line from the classic Star Wars flicks (1977). George Lucas is often credited as being the godfather of science fiction and epic film because of the original [...]

On March 31, 2011, Thomas Maccabee was charged with assault, aggravated reckless conduct and terrorizing. Maccabee was arrested after threatening to blow up a Cyr bus he had boarded in Maine, stating that he wanted to be taken to the Canadian border where he could then demand asylum from the Israeli consulate in Ottawa.