Despite its retro charms, for $50 the Nintendo Game & Watch: Super Mario Bros. handheld felt like it could benefit from a few more games: an upgrade some talented hackers made possible before the device was even released. But Nintendo doesn’t like consumers messing with its hardware, and today it...
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After successfully hacking Nintendo’s Game & Watch revival a day before the handheld was officially released, it didn’t lake long for Twitter user ‘stacksmashing’ to figure out how to get alternate games running on the device. They started with Doom, but have since succeeded in getting...
After releasing the NES and SNES Classic Edition consoles in 2016 and 2017, many hoped that in 2019, for its 30th birthday, Nintendo would release a Classic Edition of the Game Boy too. It didn’t. Instead, a year later, to celebrate Super Mario Bros. 35th birthday, we get a revival of...
As exciting as it is to retro gamers to see Nintendo resurrect its earliest handheld consoles, with just three games on the new Game & Watch—two of which being Super Mario Bros.—it’s not surprising to see hackers already cracking the hardware open to see if there’s the potential to add more...
To celebrate the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., Nintendo is throwing all sorts of goodies at fans of the series. One of the neatest is a new Game & Watch device that’s packing the NES version of Super Mario Bros., as well as The Lost...
An Ultra-Rare Supersized Version of the Nintendo Game & Watch, the Original Game Boy, Is Up for Auction

The auction house who recently sold the rare Nintendo Play Station console is making it harder and harder to be a fiscally responsible adult. Heritage Auctions has just listed another rare piece of video game history with a demo machine that was used to sell Nintendo’s Game & Watch handhelds; the...