Following the video game crash of 1983, it was Nintendo that led the charge to completely reinvigorate the industry in North America. Though the company entered the home console market in 1983 with ...
In the 1960s, if you were a Japanese businessman who wanted to be unfaithful to your wife, it behooved you to get in touch with Nintendo. Specifically, Nintendo’s luxury love hotel, which rented rooms ...
With a $60 mini version of its original NES, Nintendo strikes nostalgia gold. WSJ’s Joanna Stern takes a look at the hard-to-find 8-bit gaming system. The past, they say, isn’t as good as you remember ...
A number of things crossed Bruce Lowry’s mind as he listened to Nintendo of Japan President Hiroshi Yamauchi speak. It was 1985, and the company—flush with capital thanks to the success of arcade ...
More than forty years after its original launch, this 8-bit RPG is finally returning with a 2026 re-release on modern consoles. The Consoles Archives initiative is back with another exciting retro ...