Looking for Playstation ROMs & Emulators and top games on Android Device? The game that launched the career of a certain plumber, Nintendo’s 1981 arcade hit was pivotal. Having failed to crack the US, president Hiroshi Yamauchi convinced young designer Shigeru Miyamoto to create a new game. Jumpman (renamed Mario, after the US arm’s landlord, for the game’s Stateside launch) and his simian nemesis gobbled enough quarters to keep Nintendo afloat and launch countless Kong spinoffs (pictured). The rest is history.
Today, September 23rd, marks the 130th birthday of Nintendo. Nintendo was started in 1889 in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi and was originally named Nintendo Koppai. The company started off manufacturing playing cards before venturing off into a variety of other businesses. After work in taxis, ‘love hotels’, and many other opportunities, Nintendo began work in the electronics market and slowly became the Nintendo we know and love today. Five years ago, when Nintendo celebrated it’s 125th anniversary, things were beginning to look bleak. Today, thanks to a period of sales success and internal changes as well as the popularity of Mario and Pokemon, Nintendo is looking great! Happy Birthday!
Costing around $44 (£35/AU$49), these tiny computers are an extremely compact way of accessing your old game collection at a budget price. Providing that you’re willing to experiment, the Pi is customizable in terms of choice of emulators and library interfaces. The downside to this set-up is that it is bare bones, meaning you need to supply your own USB controllers, operating system, and storage space. This option is perfect for project enthusiasts and tinkerers, but isn’t as accessible as its commercial counterparts. Find more info on PS2 ROMs.
Wow, this is an oddball game. Yoshi’s Island almost completely forgoes the traditional gameplay set by previous Mario games. Instead of hopping and bopping on goombas’ heads as Mario, you’re protecting baby Mario as Yoshi all the while throwing eggs everywhere in a heavily stylized world that looks like a crayon drawing. While I don’t think this is quite as good as the other Mario games, this is a welcome departure from a well-trodden formula. It’s fun eating enemies and pooping them out as eggs (yes, that happens) and you’ll enjoy the inspired levels that will have you guessing what’s next. As a tip, if you want to see Yoshi waddle around and have blurred vision like he’s wasted, make sure to touch all the Fuzzies in the level “Touch Fuzzy get Dizzy.”
Despite being expensive and a little complicated to set up, the Retro Freak is ultimately worth the extra effort: this is a superior machine that offers tons of functionality, and then some. It’s even got a very nice controller, which may not be wireless but is very comfortable and solidly built (USB controllers are also supported if you don’t want to spring for the separate adaptor that will use your vintage controllers). The actual console itself is a small brick that stores games on a MicroSD card. This plugs into a larger adaptor that reads classic cartridges and stores the game ROMs on the SD card. The sheer range of consoles supported elevates Retro Freak. All of the cartridges for NEC’s cultishly adored PC Engine, whether Japanese releases or American TurboGrafx-16 versions, run on the machine. It even supports games for SuperGrafx, PC Engine’s obscure successor, of which only five even exist. Explore even more details on Download ROMs Free.