Bando do Gato has just published three mind-blowing movies that give Donkey Kong Country, the 1994 Super Nintendo classic, a huge facelift while retaining every ounce of its spirit. These side-by-side comparisons show the original pixel graphics alongside these amazing AI-enhanced renderings of the same scenes, and it’s a mix of nostalgia and astonishment.
For many old-school platformer fans, the wait for a good remake of the legendary Nintendo 64 title from 1998, “Banjo-Kazooie,” has been an interminably long time, and yet, even after thirty years, the game still holds a special place in the hearts of many. It has kind of languished away on old hardware or within the Nintendo 64 emulation scene, and this has all come to an end with the release of a PC port, titled “Banjo: Recompiled,” courtesy of several dedicated modders.
Nintendo woke their fans up bright and early this morning for an all-new Nintendo Direct, which was fully focused on what the upcoming animated The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has to offer. Shigeru Miyamoto hosted this presentation, which provided us with a new look at what’s to come as well as a slew of great updates on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. The true show-stopper came with Yoshi’s first full reveal.
The Nintendo Wii still has some tricks up its sleeve; some 20 years after its initial release, a homebrew resurrection brings back one of the console’s quirkier functions, the Food Channel, and allows anyone in the United States or Canada to purchase a real Domino’s pizza from the familiar Wii menu. Nintendo released the Wii in 2006, with a channel-based system that divided routine tasks into easy clickable icons.
Nintendo is constantly discovering new ways to incorporate elements of its games into our daily lives. After turned the Alarmo alarm clock into a platforming adventure every morning, the business is now selling a small plastic flower with a mouth, and one that talks no less. This real-life Talking Flower draws inspiration from Super Mario Bros Wonder, where these joyful conversational flowers appear in stages and provide strange ideas and insights.
A modder from China named XNZ has gone ahead and put together an impressive build by taking three different gaming consoles and somehow compressing them all into one working machine, which they’ve named the Ningtendo PXBOX 5. The custom-built creation combines the core components of a PlayStation 5, an Xbox Series S (they chose the more compact Series S for integration), and a Nintendo Switch 2 into a single device around the size of a conventional console.
Tobi, a talented coder, took on the daunting task of fitting Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 onto the small screen of an Apple Watch. This 3D masterclass from 1996 was an unusual place to start, but it works. Super Mario 64, the beautifully chaotic 1996 frolic of jumps and stars, now comes to life on your wrist, sort of.
The LEGO build that recreates the defining moment from Ocarina of Time has finally arrived. They call it The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time – The Final Battle (77093) is a 1,003-piece set that appears to depict the entire climactic showdown in Ganon’s castle, down to the last bit of tension as you face up against him.
Few gadgets are better at tugging at our nostalgia strings than the N30 wireless mouse…8Bitdo converted an interesting concept by a designer named Daniel Jansson, a foam mock-up that appeared online in 2009, into a real product. The end result is a dead ringer for the vintage gray-and-red NES controller from 1985, down to the rounded red buttons and black D-Pad.
