#August2015

Watch: ‘Super Mario World’ medley played by real band is unbearably wonderful

Found: The SNES PlayStation Prototype. Of things lost and imagined

Found!

Back in the day, Nintendo and Sony had teamed-up for the PlayStation. A collaboration that would bring disc-based games to a Nintendo system. But that shit didn’t pan out, Nintendo lost all their third-party support (for the most part) to the PSX, and the rest is history. Not lost to history, though. ‘Cause someone has unearthed a prototype console of this fabled machine.

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Opinions Vary: I Miss Nintendo

Shigeru Miyamoto.

Two weeks from tomorrow, the PlayStation Fun Machine the Fourth drops. Three weeks from tomorrow, the Microsoft Xboned Before It Arrives will hit shelves. With the  console gaming world embroiled in the debate as to the merit of both machines, an olden warrior sits in the corner. Sales dismal, library laughable, nary a soul gives a fuck about the Nintendo Wii U.

Myself included.

I miss the days when I gave a fuck about Nintendo.

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BLANKA BOYZ EPISODE 1: BLOOD DRAGONS & GRAFFITI ARTISTS

BLANKA BOYZ.

Oh shit! The first episode of The Faux Bot’s Blanka Boyz has arrived. Buckle up and prepare for it to fuck your eye-parts with 16-bit-32-bit-64-bit-Something-bit madness! It’s like Everything Is Terrible drained through a sock laced with seminal fluids and Super Nintendo parts.

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Buy EVERY SUPER NINTENDO GAME EVER for $24,999. Not bad, not bad.

Quick, swine! Hook me up during this holiday season. I  don’t really need every single Super Nintendo game ever, but do we actually ask for things we need during Christmas time? Fuck no! Embrace the excessiveness. Do so, of course, by buying me this ridiculous lot.

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French company dropping refurbished SNES consoles in sexy pastel schemes.

Goddamn! These are gorgeous. Lekki is a French company that will swag you out wit wank-worthy renditions of old consoles. They’re currently tackling the shortage of pastel-colored SNES consoles in the PAL region. Dear French folks, bring me one. I beg you.

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Miyamoto Says He’d Like To Make A Spirtual Sequel To A LINK TO THE PAST. Well Do It!

Shigeru Miyamoto hasn’t rocked out on Zelda game since 1991’s A Link To The Past, but the dude is jonesing now. Spitting some verbage (what?) with Edge Magazine, the Lord of Nintendo says he’s up for a spiritual sequel to the son of a bitch. In a certain capacity.

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