On August 14, 1995, exactly 24 years ago to the day, the original NES was discontinued in the west, bringing an end to an almost ten year period of dominance for the 8-bit console in North America.

What begins as an introduction to the consoles' different audio processing channels (pulse, triangle, noise and DPCM), soon turns into a history lesson about how audio production developed for the ...

Nintendo Music has mostly been drip-feeding Switch Online subscribers one game album per week, but this week it's going all out with 26 game albums from the NES and Famicom era. Soundtracks from 26 ...

SimCity on Super NES introduced a generation of console fans to a strategy game that was, until that point, only available on personal computers. The game’s role in popularizing city-building ...

In the 35+ years since the NES changed the video game industry, we’ve celebrated pretty much every aspect of the revolutionary console (including that strange time when we all thought blowing air into ...