Fair warning: don't watch this trailer if you want to play Famicom Detective Club blind, as it does reveal some of the story! However! The much-beloved detective visual novel games are finally, and ...

When you think of Nintendo and racing, you probably think of Mario Kart — or if you’re on the right side of the N64 debate, Diddy Kong Racing. But Nintendo has dabbled in more serious racers on the ...

One of the longest-running franchises that sadly remains niche in the West is Banpresto's Compati Hero series. Based on super-deformed gashapon toys you can still collect from vending machines across ...

Capcom's Ace Attorney may have popularized visual novel-styled Japanese mysteries in the West, but the stars of the Famicom Detective Club series were solving crimes long before Phoenix Wright came ...

Kemco might be known for their published “poverty” RPGs nowadays, but back in 1989 they released a game titled Desert Fox (Sabaku no Kitsune) for the NES. Fan translation group Stardust Crusaders has ...

A modder converted a Famicom (the Japanese version of the NES) into a handheld console complete with a screen and lots of style. Twitter/X user limonegongbang has surprised the retro community with ...

Fan translation group Stardust Crusaders has taken the liberty of creating a full English fan translation for Dead Zone, an early Famicom Sunsoft text adventure that released in 1986. Like what you ...

Visual novel Banshee's Last Cry was released as a choose-your-own-adventure novel on the Super Famicom back in 1994, but this week's iOS port is the first chance to experience the game in English. You ...