Nintendo and Sony spent the early nineties arguing over a Super NES compact disc attachment that never reached store shelves. Throaty Mumbo read that history and aimed lower, at the original front-loading NES, a console with no disc hardware and an expansion port that sat unused on the bottom of millions of gray boxes. His project page calls the result NESCD-001, an unofficial homemade compact disc add-on built for fun and documented in a build video plus a public GitHub repo.

A playable version of Minecraft is currently available for the standard Super Nintendo. There is no Super FX chip or additional processors packed inside the cartridge. Only the system, as advertised by Nintendo in the early 1990s, drives a small blocky environment in which you can dig, place bricks, and even enter a tiny Nether.

Doom 64 always stood apart from its PC cousins. Its levels felt tighter, its color palette colder, its soundtrack more unsettling. Now a new free mod gives those same corridors and chambers something they never had before: light that behaves like light.