8bitdo, bringing classic gaming to the forefront

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Living in St.John's Newfoundland, Dave has been a gamer all of his life. Starting with the NES and working both backwards and forwards, he intends to play the new along with the old!
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8bitdo wants to end the long cord frustration 8bitdo the makers of other wireless controllers for iOS, has a solution for you. With their new wireless receiver, you just plug it into the controller port and start playing your favorite classics on your NES with a PS4 controller! Or maybe even a Wii or WiiU controller. Maybe just one of […]

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NES broken, or just dirty? Here is a surefire way to clean it!

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Living in St.John's Newfoundland, Dave has been a gamer all of his life. Starting with the NES and working both backwards and forwards, he intends to play the new along with the old!
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Is your NES broken? Is your old NES broken? Did you just pull it out of the closet after months or even years of no use? Its probably not. Its probably not even your games. Use this tutorial to get it back to life!

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A Very Happy Birthday to Pokemon!

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Living in St.John's Newfoundland, Dave has been a gamer all of his life. Starting with the NES and working both backwards and forwards, he intends to play the new along with the old!
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Happy Birthday Pokemon!

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Need a hand? Mario Party on N64

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Living in St.John's Newfoundland, Dave has been a gamer all of his life. Starting with the NES and working both backwards and forwards, he intends to play the new along with the old!
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Everyone’s favorite memory of playing Mario Party games on the N64 is how blistered and broken their hands got after the first hour of play. There were even some documented cases of folks not being able to close their hands fully. However Mario Party was such a good game for its time, who could resist.

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Goldeneye 007, as if it was made today.

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Living in St.John's Newfoundland, Dave has been a gamer all of his life. Starting with the NES and working both backwards and forwards, he intends to play the new along with the old!
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If you owned a Nintendo 64 in the 90’s, its likely you had Goldeneye 007 and spent countless hours facing off with your friends in 4 player death matches and hiding around corner to shoot them in the face. Well,the games graphics just don’t hold up. Save for the more recently release Goldeneye 007 Reloaded a couple of years ago. […]

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RetroReview: BlackJack Poker. ColecoVision Flashback

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Living in St.John's Newfoundland, Dave has been a gamer all of his life. Starting with the NES and working both backwards and forwards, he intends to play the new along with the old!
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Welcome back to anther ColecoVision Flashback review. This time, BlackJack Poker. This game actually required one of the overlays included with the ColecoVision Flashback, luckily it was labeled which one to use. Although it could be hard to miss. Fairly basic controls set up to be as true to life as it could be in 1982. The game starts up […]

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RetroReview: Artillery Duel. ColecoVision Flashback

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Living in St.John's Newfoundland, Dave has been a gamer all of his life. Starting with the NES and working both backwards and forwards, he intends to play the new along with the old!
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Artillery Duel on ColecoVision could be the most basic two player “shooting game” ever made. Starting with the MS-Paint like graphics. Literally Artillery Duel could have been painted with MS-Paint and slapped on with random colors, save for it was released in 1983. Artillery Duel by XONOX Inc is a sub-standard two player shooting game. Each player controls one of […]

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RetroReview: Aquattack. ColecoVision Flashback

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Living in St.John's Newfoundland, Dave has been a gamer all of his life. Starting with the NES and working both backwards and forwards, he intends to play the new along with the old!
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Aquattack appears to be one of the better games on the ColecoVision Flashback by AtGames. Actually, its pretty fun. You steer a boat that’s being bombarded by enemies on both sides of a river, and also from the air. Random bomb drops and bullets are always in your path.               Aquattack always adds stress […]

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RetroReview: Alphabet Zoo. ColecoVision Flashback

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Living in St.John's Newfoundland, Dave has been a gamer all of his life. Starting with the NES and working both backwards and forwards, he intends to play the new along with the old!
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You may remember around this time last year I promised to review all the games included on Atgames ColecoVision Flashback console. Since the site crashed and I lost everything in April of last year, its been slow going. Well I’m going to hold to my promise and get back to it. Starting from the beginning once again with Alphabet zoo. […]

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Interview with Rob McCallum. Director of Nintendo Quest!

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Living in St.John's Newfoundland, Dave has been a gamer all of his life. Starting with the NES and working both backwards and forwards, he intends to play the new along with the old!
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By now you may have heard about a fantastic new documentary about NES collecting. The film titled “Nintendo Quest” features a man named Jay scouring the United States in an attempt to purchase every north american released original Nintendo game released without using online purchases. Well earlier this year I had a chance to sit down and chat with Mr. […]

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