Video games are a cyclical hobby. When Nintendo released the Famicom/NES, it was the hottest hardware with the best lineup of games the industry had ever seen. After enough time passed, though, that ...

Unless you’re a very specific kind of games enthusiast, the existence of Famicom Detective Club probably eluded you until Nintendo released a pair of remakes on the Switch in 2021. It’s one of ...

Whether you’re a visual novel veteran or someone new to the genre looking for an engaging, high-quality introduction, Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club simply cannot be missed.

A sequel to the NES’ Famicom Detective Club series, Emio — The Smiling Man puts players in control of two teenage sleuths working out of the Utsugi Detective Agency. They’re roped into a ...

Nintendo has officially unveiled Emio - The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club, the next game in the Famicom Detective Club series. Thanks to a brand-new trailer, we now know that the game will ...

Rare opportunity: Nintendo collectors with deep pockets have the rare opportunity to get their hands on an early Super Famicom prototype that looks an awful lot like the pre-production model ...

Twitter/X user limonegongbang has surprised the retro community with their new creation: a Famicom conversion to a portable game console with a backlit screen. And if that were not enough ...

On July 15, 1983, while the games industry was collapsing in the U.S., Nintendo released the Family Computer, or Famicom, in Japan. The 8-bit console built on Nintendo’s early ‘80s arcade ...

It seemed like the end of the video game market until the Nintendo Entertainment System, aka the Famicom, arrived in Japan. The irony here is that, at the time, Nintendo wasn’t known for making ...

SUNSOFT is also thinking beyond its initial goal of releasing those three titles, to release the “SUNSOFT-branded gold cartridge” it was unable to release back in the Famicom days. Back then ...

Twinbee is a classic arcade shoot 'em up from 1985 and it has seen many sequels, spin-offs, and console ports over the years since its debut. One of my favourite entries in the series is Pop'n Twinbee ...

TwinBee began its life as a 1985 Japan-only arcade game, then a Famicom game, and then eventually came to the West in 2007 under the title "RainbowBell"... but thankfully, this 3DS version ...