So we were more than happy to recently stumble upon WideNES, a new emulation project that extends the visible area of an NES game map past the usual 4:3, 256x240 resolution screen area we're used to.

Not only does the NES have a built-in screen, it also has a speaker to play all those 8-bit sounds and a Game Genie, which is an old-school piece of hardware that allows players to cheat in games.

As reported by 404 Media, 13-year-old competitive Tetris player Blue Scuti became the first human to force the NES classic into a “kill screen,” the de facto “game over” for the legendary ...

For decades after its 1989 release, each of the hundreds of millions of standard NES Tetris games ended the same way: A block reaches the top of the screen and triggers a "game over" message.

Asreported by 404 Media, 13-year-old competitive Tetris player Blue Scuti became the first human to force the NES classic into a “kill screen,” the de facto “game over” for the legendary ...

The NES Tetris arms race finally ... culminating in the first human-reached "Kill screen" crash, it has always been theorized that a human player with a version of the game less prone to those ...

This unlicensed NES game follows in the footsteps of Nintendo ... targets bounce across the screen, terrorists with machine guns pop up from all angles, and you shoot what you can.

and he eventually added NES and Game Boy functionality as well. As this build was originally intended just for Game and Watch games, the screen is about the size of these old games, and while it ...

Shadow of the Ninja is a good NES game, but it always lived in the shadow ... everything while wildly flailing your sword, to seeing a screen of enemies and swiftly taking them out one-by-one ...

but Morphcat Games created an excellent one in Micro Mages. This required some very economical use of the hardware. "The NES allows for a maximum of 64 hardware sprites to be on the screen at any ...

Shaving off each mushroomy-millisecond, or tackling similarly bite-sized challenges like killing four Oktoroks on a single screen of ... up portions of 13 NES (and Famicom) games that’ve been ...