This week’s 3DS Virtual Console release is Golf for the Game Boy. There was a version of this game on the NES as well, but the Game Boy game has different content. You have 32 holes and need to ...
With the 3DS eShop set to be officially closing in March of next year, now is the perfect time to look at the many exclusive or unique titles it has to offer that are mostly, or entirely, unavailable ...
He’s the leader of the bunch. You know him well. He’s finally back to kick some tail. Nintendo has released both the Donkey Kong Country (originally on Super Nintendo) and Donkey Kong Land (originally ...
Nintendo 3DS is getting some arcade classics. Well, Famicom ports of arcade games. Next week, Famicom versions of Spelunker and Tower of the Druaga will be available as Virtual Console downloads for ...
Nintendo has a great opportunity in its Virtual Console platform, but it's one that the legendary gaming company has so far mostly squandered. Here's a digital marketplace where Nintendo can ...
Nintendo has made some bold, weird choices with its hardware designs. But none were so bold and weird as 1995's Virtual Boy, a "woefully premature commercial curio," as one Ars writer put it, that ...
Much to the dismay of many 3DS and Wii U owners, Nintendo recently announced that it would be closing down their respective eShops in March 2023. The news came as a bit of a surprise to many Nintendo ...
Nintendo recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Game Boy, the handheld console that has been synonymous with portable video games for decades. While the original Nintendo Entertainment System ...
Since the Game Boy's debut in 1989, Nintendo has operated a twin-pillar games business: home consoles and gaming handhelds. The discontinuation of the 3DS, and lack of a direct successor, marks the ...
Here at Ars, we’re big fans of classic console emulators that go beyond providing perfect re-creations to those that actually improve on original hardware with new features we could only dream of as ...
While the Nintendo 3DS virtual console has been filled with great nostalgia-filled entries over the years, there's been one gaping hole: the SNES. You can play SNES games on the Wii U's Virtual ...