Generally speaking, writing your own games for retro consoles starts with C code. You’ll need to feed that through a console-specific tool-chain, and there’s certainly going to be some hoops to jump ...

With designs that would become standard, these are the NES Games That Shaped Modern Gaming More Than Players Realized.

When it launched in 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System did so with a platformer. People are still making platformers for the NES, so there’s no denying how effective the console’s hardware is at ...

Arin Hanson recounts his unconventional introduction to gaming and the strange hardware luck that led to his early relationship with the NES.