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The Super Mario Bros. Theme Song Has Lyrics You've Probably Never Heard

“Today, full of energy, Mario is still running, running."

The NES Classic Edition Is Returning to Stores June 29

And it'll be around through the end of the year.

Nintendo Is Releasing a Special Gold Famicom Mini, Which Will Come Pre-Loaded With 20 Games

The Japanese version of the NES is returning to stores with a selection of games based on manga titles.

8 Clever Ways to Recycle Your Old Nintendo Equipment

Don't toss out your old Zapper light gun. Use it to annoy your cat instead.

Mario Kart Is Coming to Your Smartphone

Nintendo’s perennial racing champion is making the jump to the mobile world.

6 Surprising Facts About Nintendo's Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing is one of the video game giant's quirkier franchises, but that hasn't stopped it from becoming a worldwide hit.

10 Game-Changing Facts About the Super Nintendo

The console had a rudimentary version of downloadable content, gave birth to basic 3D graphics, inadvertently created the PlayStation, and probably turned yellow.

Bit by Bit: Inside the Rise of Retro Gaming

The NES Classic helped take the veil off a subculture of retro gamers who make their own classics, buy clone consoles, and know when a vintage side-scroller has the wrong frame rate.

Donkey Kong Country gets trippy in this vaporwave homage.

Donkey Kong Country Gets Remade as a Surreal Vaporwave Art Piece

The SNES classic goes down the internet rabbit hole in this trippy homage.

Target Is Getting a Mario Kart Makeover

Just in time for the release of 'Mario Kart 8' on the Switch, Target is turning itself into a real-world 'Kart' course.

Nintendo May Release an SNES Classic

Nintendo may soon have you refreshing Amazon sales pages again.

The Artist Who Helped Bring Super Mario to Life

A veteran of animation lent a hand in creating Nintendo's vibrant world.

RIP NES Classic: Nintendo Is Discontinuing Its Retro Console

We hardly knew ye.

Nintendo Switch Game Cartridges Taste Terrible (for a Very Good Reason)

In case you have kids. Or just in case you like to eat video games.

Dedicated Fan Spent Three Years Beating All 714 NES Games

Set aside a spare 3400 hours and maybe you can do it, too.

An Oral History of Nintendo's Power Glove

On the surface, it seemed like an impossible task. Take an $8800, NASA-approved interface glove running on $250,000 worth of computer hardware, then replicate the performance in a consumer-grade toy with parts costing less than $26.

7 Things We Know About the Nintendo Switch

Nintendo's latest console touts some innovation, some nostalgia, and a whole lot of potential.

Hackers Find a Way to Add More Games to the NES Classic

Nintendo's roster of 30 games just got a sizable increase, thanks to some friendly hackers.

No NES Classic? RetroEngine Sigma Promises Decades of Classic Video Games

Genesis, Nintendo 64, GameBoy, and PlayStation are just some of the consoles you can emulate at home.

The Final Match, 2016 Classic Tetris World Championship

Two players do battle on original Nintendo hardware, in front of a massive live audience.

Nintendo Is Making an Escape Room Featuring The Legend of Zelda

“The Defenders of the Triforce" opens early next year, so start your training now.

25 Fun Facts About Your Favorite Nintendo NES Games

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start

10 Game-Changing Facts About the Nintendo 64

Nintendo's groundbreaking console just turned 25. Find out why the system had such a big impact (and why the company needed to sell protective gloves for one particular game.)

Who Was Metroid's Justin Bailey?

The name is the most famous cheat code of the '80s. But was Justin Bailey a real person?

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