Is time to dust off or call back your Nintendo NES, SNES or N64 controllers (third-party ones also accepted) and plug them into the upcoming Komodo & Innex 3-in-1 Retro Adapter for your Wii Virtual Console. This adapter connects to your Wii via the GameCube port and you can emulate retro Nintendo experience happily with really-fitting joypads.

Price of this useful Wii accessory is at $19.99 and will be out around mid-June.
Image: Komodo
Via: Crunchgear

Ever wonder how the modern video game console controller came to be? Well, thanks to the ingenious Sock Master, we now have a pretty good idea. Here’s a little tidbit from his “study” entitled “Sock Master’s Game Console Controller Family Tree”:
How did the current home-console controllers come to be? How have they evolved? You may have noticed some similarities between the current generation controllers, or between them and the previous generations of controllers. So, how do they all tie together?
Let’s try to find out. I’ve put together a chart, or controller family tree, that tries to connect all the current …read more

Unfortunately, the consoles in the video aren’t mine. Boohoo. At least I get to reminisce. It’s wonderful to know that there are video game fanatics out there who have preserved their consoles.
Sigh. My collection isn’t complete anymore. My old Coleco Telstar Arcade is in shambles … the only intact things that came with the original package are the cartridges. Very solid, I must say. My Nintendo Family Computer, on the other hand, still works, but it makes my television go crazy whenever I plug it in. Ditto with my Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
Oh, well. I guess it’s time to purchase …read more

I’m currently watching a video on the history of video games by YouTube user applemctom, and my wife, Joyce, keeps asking me why I know majority of the games featured in the video. I guess my video games addiction is finally showing, eh? To test my mettle, I tried to list down in order all the games shown in the two-minute footage. Unfortunately, I didn’t get them all. Before I show my list (rather, before you take a look at it), watch the video and try listing down in order all the games that you see. Let’s compare notes later.

Well, …read more

I’ve found this neat video on the Video Games Crash of 1983 by Normal Caruso, and all I can say after watching it from start to finish is, “Whoa!” Well, if we believe all points that Norman raised in the video, particularly the supposed factors that contributed to the fall of the video games industry in the early 1980s, well, then the video is in itself educational as well as entertaining.
Go check it out and judge for yourself:

Kudos to Norman Caruso for the superb voiceover.

If there’s a side-scrolling fighting game that I played more than Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, it’s Killer Instinct, developed by Rare, Midway and Nintendo and released in arcades in 1994.
If you’ve played Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, then playing Killer Instinct should be a breeze for you. In Killer Instinct, like other fighting games, the player controls a character with the goal of beating different opponents in a one-on-one match.
The game, however, has other features that differentiate it from other titles:
A double energy bar. Instead of having to beat an opponent in two rounds, each character has two bars …read more

Did you know that there have been at least 63 video game consoles and personal computers in the past 50 years? Well, I didn’t … honestly. So imagine my surprise when I came across this video:

The author of this mish-mash, however, missed the entire Apple line of personal computers. I owned an Apple IIc, so I know first-hand that a lot of video games can be played on the machine—that is, if any Apple computer is still intact to this day.

This time it’s Goldeneye getting the real life translation. Take a look see…

Great work… I might drag out the N64 later on, this videos made me really want to play it!
Via Infendo.

This is brilliant:

Remember when Christmas felt like that? I’m having a hard time typing anything because I’m laughing too much, but I’m particularly keen on the slow motion playback. That kid eminates a sound similar to the collective braying of a million cadaverous automata.
Via Digg.

The inimitably intrepid British Gaming Blog delivers the goods once again, with news that an emulation fan by the name of PSMonkey has successfully installed an N64 emulator on Sony’s handheld.
More and more consoles are getting emulated on the PSP, and it seems N64 is underway now. PSMonkey has got Mortal Kombat to work on his emulator, and will be releasing it soon…
How soon though? And how popular will this prove to be? At least PSP owners will finally have some decent games to play (Zing! I’m on fire!)!
Peep this here video:

On the YouTube page for this video there is …read more