Tag: Console

Back in the day, all the game consoles used cartridges. We had to blow on those things regularly, or dust got in the connectors and things didn’t work correctly. Dutch tech site Techtastic is reporting on a supposed Sony patent application that hints the next console could ditch the discs used for games today and return to the cartridge format. Filed in late 2017, the patent application’s illustrations appear to show a cartridge that combines elements of flash drives with old-school cartridges.

If you’ve been itching to get yourself a PlayStation Classic console, Sony has revealed the full game list for the retro replica, and it looks like it will please many fans looking for that nostalgia fix. Previously Sony announced games like Final Fantasy VII and Ridge Racer Type 4, but in addition to these titles, you’ll get games like Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil Director’s Cut and Twisted Metal.

This is the heyday for retro gaming with mini console remakes. Nintendo kicked things off with the NES Classic and sold tons of those machines. It followed up with the SNES Classic, and rumor has it that a GameCube Classic could be in the works now too.

It has been just over a month since the rebirthed company known as Atari announced that it was working on a new console. Now they are giving us a better look at it. In an email to fans, the company revealed that the Ataribox will come in two editions, both very retro, but with some contemporary design elements as well. One version is based on the brown wood found on the original Atari 2600.

There’s nothing more boring than waiting around for your meal to cook. Well, Colin Furze has a solution. The Play-A-Wave, a game console for bored chefs (no, not board chefs.) Furze built an LCD screen is built into the door, which had to be modified with added shielding to prevent the screen from going all wonky when the microwave is on.

This is not the first functional BMO we have seen, but this version by Imgur user NinjaBunny9000 is one of the coolest. You can play this guy just like Finn and Jake do, minus the BMO voice giving you sassy talk.

Nintendo has officially unveiled its next console. Originally known as the “Nintendo NX,” the production console will be called the Nintendo Switch. Actually, what we got is more of a product trailer than an actual announcement, but this trailer shows us exactly what we are getting along with some horrible music. Looks like we were right about the Switch being a hybrid between a portable system and a home console in one.

Hot on the heels of Nintendo’s plan to release its miniature retro console, SEGA is also releasing a modern version of the classic Mega Drive (aka Genesis) to celebrate Sonic’s 25th anniversary. This new console is a lot like the old one, only smaller.

Check out this beautiful Xbox One. This isn’t your typical boring game console that sits in your entertainment center ignored, except to turn it on and play your games. This is a console worth waging war over.

Less than a day before E3 2016 Microsoft’s press conference, an image of the Xbox One Slim (aka Xbox One S) showed up on NeoGAF, and now it’s officially been confirmed. It definitely looks like it will be worth buying.

Earlier this year we featured the 10-player arcade game Killer Queen. Event company Two Bit Circus also has its version of a not-so-massive offline multiplayer game. The company calls it Hexacade, because it allows up to six players to play together at the same time. Originally called the Party Table, the Hexacade has a trackball and arcade buttons for each player.

In most of the movies I have ever seen about the Yakuza, if you do something wrong you have to cut off your own finger. I don’t think most of us would want to be in the Yakuza for real, but we probably would like to play the new Yakuza Zero game that will land this spring.

This beautiful custom SNES was created by ozcan and it really makes me wish that Nintendo had offered something like it way back in the day.

There are lots of ways to play retro style arcade games on your TV these days, but most of them are a little big to carry with you everywhere. This little gadget from across the Pacific lets you play 108 different 8-bit games on your TV, and it’s small enough to fit in your pocket. The tiny, battery powered TV Game 100 Plus (version 2) plugs into the composite video and one of the RCA audio jacks on your TV, and provides you with a veritable crapton of arcade action.

The NPD Group has published the latest stats for the gaming industry as of April 2014, and the numbers show that for a fourth month in a row the Sony PS4 has outsold the Xbox One.

Nintendo isn’t exactly doing well on the gaming market today. The company currently lacks a popular console and continues to post widening losses each quarter. Nintendo is now looking to build a new console and this unit won’t be aimed at gamers in places like the U.S.