Retro
Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo – Part 8 Project Dolphin
Welcome to the Infendo Presents: The History of Nintendo! Join us as we chronicle Nintendo from their humble hanafuda beginnings, to the dominance of the Wii and DS and beyond! Nintendo found themselves in an interesting position after the turn of the millennium. Never before had they failed to be market leader in the console space, but the race between the Nintendo 64 and the Sony Playstation was...
Tuesday Time Warp: Top 10 SNES RPGs
While every system has had its own unique role-playing games, no system has had a deeper, more brilliant selection than the Super Nintendo. Not only did the SNES boast one of, if not the, biggest selection of RPGs, it also carried easily some of the best games the genre has ever seen. From the fantastic stories to the endearing characters, from the addicting gameplay to the moving soundtracks, the...
Tuesday Time Warp: Top 10 NES Games
What better place to start our new retro feature than the very system that kickstarted this wonderful journey, the Nintendo Entertainment System. For many gamers, the NES was the system that changed our lives and sucked us into a world of endless possibilities. Whether it was World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros, the first dungeon in The Legend of Zelda, or the initial creepy moments of Metroid, the NES ...
Coming Soon: Tuesday Time Warp
With the sad departure of our beloved editor, Holly Fellmeth, and the increasingly busy lives of the rest of the Infendo staff, the pages of Infendo have been eerily silent as of late. Do not fear, great things are on their way. One of these things is a new bi-weekly feature, beginning next week, entitled “Tuesday Time Warp.” This new feature will focus on retro games, particularly the...
Retro Redux: NES Quest – Updates, New Vote, and Refresher
The NES Quest continues to move forward, albeit at a rather slow pace. I tried to juggle several games over this last week: Hyrule Warriors, Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, and StarTropics. I’d say I’ve done an alright job, especially considering the other demands of life, which continue to bombard. So let’s not waste any time! Updates O...
Should Retro studios return to the Metroid series?
I was thinking this over the last few days wondering what Retro Studios will work on after Donkey Kong: Tropical Freeze. I know many people want Metroid Prime 4 and I do too but how about Retro works on a new Starfox game. A series I think could do with a reboot because the storyline for that game license is getting out of hand due to it being passed around without a consistant developer. If Ninte...
Buy one Street Fighter II, get another two at a 50% discount
Starting tomorrow, Wii U owners can purchase one of three editions of Street Fighter II on the Virtual Console and get the other two at 50% off. The games include Street Fighter II: World Warrior, Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting, and Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, all of which were released on the Super Nintendo. Street Fighter II is one of the most iconic and popular fighti...
Decorate Your Wii U With These Retro Skins
Now you can retrofit (see what I did there?) your Wii U console and the GamePad with an NES skin provided by the fine folks at DecaGirl. The skins retail at $19.99 and look quite sleek and nicely designed for a product that has seemingly become popular within the tablet and smart phone community. Considering the Wii U is designed with a fingerprint-absorbant glossy finish, these NES-inspired skins...
Will Star Fox X Metroid be shown at E3?
Two weeks ago one megaton a rumor started swirling around the Internet in the form of a Star Fox, Metroid, crossover. Well more info on that game has surfaced today. Does that mean we can expect to see Star Fox X Metroid at E3 next week?
PSA: Classic SNES Controllers Now Available for Wii
Old School gamers will be happy to learn that a classic SNES controller for the Wii is now available at ThinkGeek. As someone who has lamented that Club Nintendo Japan appeared to be the only way to pick one of these up, I am thrilled that they can be ordered in North America now. The Super Nintendo still remains my favorite system ever and I try to go back and play the classics on my Wii whenever...
Would New Games for Old Systems Really Be That Bad?
Recently, Dan posted an article about a new Super Nintendo game in development. As I read the article I felt a chill of excitement run down my spine and started thinking, would this really be a bad idea if it continued? I know that a lot of people out there will be against it. They will tell us that Emulators and downloads from the console specific stores are their choice of playing games from o...
New Super Nintendo Game in Developement.
You may think this is a post from 1995. This is 2012 and yes there is group of die hard programmers who are developing a new game for a system that was discontinued before Y2K. The company is Super Fighter Team and they are planning on making 600 copies of a side scrolling adventure game called Nightmare Busters. Nightmare Busters is due out in 2013 and you can preorder it now for $60. Wha...