RetroN3 NES: Sega Genesis, and SNES all-in-one!

RetroN3 NES: Sega Genesis, and SNES all-in-one!

If you’re like one of the countless other kids (and even some adults) who grew up during the 90′s, you’ve no doubt acquired your own fair share of gaming systems. For some, they became the objects of garage sales on the $10 table. For others, a box, an attic, and some dust fit the bill. Wherever they ended up, you can’t help but get an itch to play them every now and then. But what if you don’t have the console anymore and are left with...

Now you have a real reason to continuously blow those old NES/SNES cartridges…[NES Cartridge Harmonica]

Now you have a real reason to continuously blow those old NES/SNES cartridges…[NES Cartridge Harmonica]

It used to be that back in the day, you blew the hell out of those old game cartridges just to get them to work. At times, the sessions could go on for minutes on end, making your face blue, and head light. It was all for the greater good though. Fast forward a decade or two and games are making the move from cartridge to disc to digital download. Cartridges are still alive in today’s society but just don’t hold the importance they once did. But instead of...

Shocker: Nokia gets turtle shelled for showing off SNES emulator on N900. Bigger Shocker: Why hasn’t Nintendo monetized the ROM business?

Shocker: Nokia gets turtle shelled for showing off SNES emulator on N900.  Bigger Shocker: Why hasn’t Nintendo monetized the ROM business?

Perhaps it was a defiant “FU” to IP law. It could have been a simple mistake. Whatever it was, the showcasing of an SNES emulator and ROM running on the N900 belonging to Urho Konttori, Product Manager of Nokia, was begging for trouble from the start. And like clockwork, Nintendo has sent the legal hounds on Nokia to investigate how and why such thing happened. Nintendo voices the same opinion that many game developers and companies voice: that emulators and...