After 22 years (and at the age of 40) in the major leagues, Ken Griffey Jr is retiring from Baseball. Early in his career Griffey was on target to break many baseball records but injuries unfortunately derailed a lot of those hopes. To me though, Griffey had the best baseball game of the [...]

Did you just wake up from a 11year coma and feel slighted because you missed the launch of the Dreamcast? Maybe you just want to get your hands on a fantastic system where you can play anything from NES, SNES, Genesis and Dreamcast games all on one system. Well Amazon.com has you covered [...]

A company called Retrode has created a device that will allow you easily convert your SNES and Genesis games to a ROM that can be played on your PC or Mac. It’s a very simple device where you put your game of choice into the machine, connect to your PC and away you go. [...]

Thanks to a report from Kotaku, it seems that Tecmo will be bringing an updated version of Tecmo Super Bowl to the PSN and Xbox Live networks this spring (sorry Wii owners). Tecmo released a new football game for the DS a few years back and it played just like the original and Tecmo seems [...]

Today marks the day we received what some consider the best, myself included, Mario Bros. game of all time. Yes 20 years ago today, Super Mario Bros. 3 was unleashed on the masses not only in stores but also in the movies with The Wizard teasing us of it’s impending arrival two months prior. [...]

Wow it was a very good day for Nintendos virtual console this week. First, and all most out of the blue, Konami releases Castlevania: The Adventure Rebirth (1000points) for the WiiWare without any formal announcement, the often praised/requested PilotWings (800points) from the SNES is available and for the DSi you can download an updated [...]

Some minor, yet good news coming from Nintendo this mornign. First, it has been announced that the Wii Opera Internet Browser will now be a free download to all Wii owners (previously it was 500pts or $5) for the download. To compensate people who already paid for the Wii browser, Nintendo will be providing [...]

Today is the day we nerds have been waiting for. We finally get our hands on a good Batman video game. Now the Lego Batman wasn’t that bad but it doesn’t truly show what Batman is all about, and that is going to change with the release of Arkham Asylum today. Batman:AA [...]

Today begins a fantastic partnership between Lucasarts and Nintendo as we are seeing the release of Super Star Wars, for the SNES, on the Virtual Console today (only 800pts). This will be the first of many Lucasarts games and related content to be released on the Wii with Super Empire Strikes back and Super [...]

Today we get to see our first official look at the Xbox live and PSN version of TMNT: Turtles in Time. This game was origianly in the arcades and later ported to the SNES and the Genesis (as the Hyperstone Heist). The game will be available this week on Xbox live and later this [...]