Palm-sized NES clone plays classic cartridges using the same chips that powered the original Nintendo Why it matters: NES enthusiasts have a couple of viable options to get their fix in 2022 including a brand new console built using the same CPU and PPU from the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Best yet, it’s available to pre-order

This modder turned a Game Boy Advance into a portable emulator station to play SNES, PS, and Mega Drive games In brief: A YouTuber and modder named Rodrigo Alfonso used his impressive modding and hacking skills to make a Game Boy Advance run Mega Drive, PlayStation, and SNES games. To do it, he used custom cartridges

Atari is selling unreleased 2600 games in cartridge format as part of the AtariXP program In brief: Atari is launching the AtariXP program in which the retro gaming company will be selling unreleased 2600 games like Aquaventure, Saboteur and Yars’ Return in cartridge format. These games will be available as a standard edition for $49.99 and

ScummVM celebrates 20 years with a significant update What just happened? The developers of a program for running many classic PC games on modern computers recently released a big patch for its 20th anniversary. The update adds support for more games like Grim Fandango, adds new features, and significantly reworks some other things. Over the weekend

The first Sega Saturn dev kits were super long Vintage tech: The Sega Saturn launched in November of 1994. As with almost all gaming consoles, game makers were given access to developer kits (dev kits). One of the first dev kits for the Saturn was called the Address Checker, and it was enormous compared to commercial

This emulator lets you run original PlayStation games on Microsoft’s Xbox In a nutshell: At 9x scaling, you’re getting the equivalent of 4K resolution, and with Microsoft’s newer consoles, 60 frames per second is easily obtainable. Best yet, with DuckStation, you can house and access ROMs on a USB flash drive without having to copy them