Pursuant to my earlier post which saw me searching my house for Club Nintendo registration cards, I received my Club Nintendo gift in the mail today! Say hello to 800 coins worth of Nintendo centric glory; the limited edition Club Nintendo Hanafuda cards. What are Hanafuda cards, you ask? Translated, the name means flower cards. [...]
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Hanafuda Fever!
Posted in Art of Collecting, finds, tagged club nintendo, Famicom, hanafuda, mario, nes, nintendo on June 4, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Retro Review
Posted in Featured Article, Reviews, tagged 8-bit, game sugar, gamesugar, nes, net, nintendo, puzzle games, Rare, snake rattle and roll on May 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I know it been a while since I have updated, but in the recent melt (after a record snow fall) my basement took on some serious water, so I have been dealing with that lately. Thankfully the game room survived unscathed, save for a small wet spot in one corner. Updates around here will be [...]
A Year in Retro: 2010 in Review
Posted in Featured Article, News and Updates, tagged 2010, 2011, collection, Famicom, master system, nes, new year, nintendo, retro, retrospective, review, Sega, snes, super nintendo, video games on December 31, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Another year is nearly at an end. This is the third anniversary (minus a day or two) of this site, and it was a good year for Video Games Are Rad; readership has doubled again for the third year straight, and I couldn’t be happier. In fact, the page views for December 2010 are nearly [...]
Zelda: A Link to the Past Famicom
Posted in 12 Days of Famicom 2010, Art of Collecting, Featured Article, tagged a link to the past, chinese original, Famicom, nes, nintendo, pirate, snes, super nintendo, waixing computer science and technology, zelda on December 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Zelda: A Link to the Past Famicom is one of the most interesting Famicom pirates I have ever come across. It is certainly the most faithful to the game from which it borrows (ie: rips-off). You wouldn’t know to look at the anime-flavored artwork, but this is indeed a complete 8-bit remake of the famed [...]
Famicom Carts
Posted in 12 Days of Famicom 2010, Art of Collecting, Featured Article, tagged carts, collection, Famicom, family computer, import, japan, nes, nintendo, nintendo entertainment system, video games on December 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Look at all those Famicom games! My collection of Famicom games has blossomed to this beautiful array of radness from my initial 10 cart lot I bought around 3 years ago. Amongst this ocean of 60-pin carts are some of my most cherished components of my collection. Soem of my highlights include The Hyrule Fantasy: [...]
Game Doctor!
Posted in 12 Days of Famicom 2010, Featured Article, Reviews, tagged copymaster, disk, disk system, Famicom, family computer, fds, game doctor, nes, nintendo, pirates, video games on December 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When PCs become a popular gaming platforms in the mid 1980s, piracy was not far behind it. Copying a PC game in those early days was as easy as copying the contents off the disk onto another disk, whether that be the your hard drive, a 5.25″ floppy, or a 3.5″ diskette. Software publishers, desperately [...]
Rockman 6 in 1 cart
Posted in 12 Days of Famicom 2010, Featured Article, Reviews, tagged 6 in 1, 6in1, capcom, Famicom, family computer, import, japan, mega man, megaman, nes, nintendo, pirate, rock man, rockman on December 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Released in Japan between 1987 and 1993, the original six Rockman games are among the most fondly remembered and treasured classic games not only on the Famicom, but in all of retro gaming. The original six Rockman game still fetch upwards of $100 each complete in box today, and near that for their NES Megaman [...]
Halloween Spooktacular: Vs. Castlevania
Posted in Featured Article, Reviews, tagged arcade, castlevania, dualsystem, halloween, horror, konami, nes, nintendo, playchoice, playchoice 10, red tent, retro, unisystem, video games, vs. on October 31, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Nintendo’s Vs. arcade hardware, released in the mid 80′s, was truly unique at the time of it’s release. Nintendo took what they did with their earlier dual screen Game and Watch releases and their 1984 arcade release Punch Out! and designed an entire arcade hardware configuration based on dual screens. Although Nintendo offered the Vs. [...]
Super Mario Bros., World 1-1
Posted in Featured Article, tagged 25th anniversary, best video game levels, mario, nes, nintendo, shigeru miyamoto, super mario, super mario bros., super nintendo, video games, wii, world 1-1 on October 28, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I began writing this article as a top ten list of the best first levels. I made my list (and checked it twice) making sure I didn’t leave anything out; the dam from Goldeneye? Check! The jungle from Contra? Double check! I typed out my bare list and started at number 1 filling out the [...]
Famicom Pirate Monday #7
Posted in Famicom Pirate Monday, Reviews, tagged chines, chinese pirate, Dragon Quest, dragon warrior, enix, Famicom, family computer, nes, nintendo, pirate, square, squareenix, squaresoft, unlicensed, waixing computer science and technology on September 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today I am covering a really cool pirate called Dragon Quest 7. This little dandy was created by the legendary Waixing Science and Technology, whom created (amongst many others) the infamous Final Fantasy 7 pirate. This effort, however, is somewhat less epic. In fact, it’s pretty underwhelming. Now I haven’t played the entire game (as [...]
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