Zapping through the decades. Nintendo’s iconic NES light gun shooter Duck Hunt turns 40 today. Inspired by Nintendo’s 1976 Duck Hunt electro-mechanical arcade game, it was first released on the Famicom in Japan on April 21st, 1984. Read the full article on timeextension.com Zapping through the decades. Nintendo’s iconic NES light gun shooter Duck Hunt…
Complete with ‘electric blowback’. The Japan-exclusive Cyber Stick controller – which was released alongside the Mega Drive Mini 2 in that region – is getting a gun attachment complete with ‘electric blowback’. The attachment is being created by Far East Pinball, an independent manufacturer that makes pinball, electromechanical games, and gaming devices. The company is…
1994’s most extravagant console? While Sega made plenty of odd hardware choices during the ’90s, one particular product always fascinated me as a kid – the Multi-Mega. The moment I saw the first print advertisement for this all-in-one Mega Drive and Mega CD console – which proudly showed its actual size on a single page…
A pocket-sized revolution. The Nintendo Game Boy turns 35 today. Released in Japan on April 21st, 1989, this monochrome handheld would quickly become one of the hottest consumer products of the early ’90s; a famous anecdote claims that a Sony executive was furious with his designers and stated that the Game Boy should have been…