Absolute Nintendo

To start season 8 of the Absolute Nintendo podcast, this episode invites you to "Let R.O.B. help you tackle the video challenge."

"♪ Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na, fishing ♪" - Homer Simpson, chanting to the Batman TV theme.

Does this SNK warfare duo hold up on NES, or are these games better suited for quarter-popping players?

"California's hottest games," featuring competition for up to eight players, gets the Absolute Nintendo Podcast treatment.

Please don't call it a metroidvania.

A homebrew retro game in the black box style, Fire and Rescue delivers some aftermarket 8-bit entertainment.

An arcade-style puzzler demanding plenty of practice—can you master Bubbles' peg-swinging action?

This episode of Absolute Nintendo considers a pair of unlicensed puzzle games from American Video Entertainment.

Fat Cat is back on the NES, but was it worth the long wait?

A late-release Nintendo Entertainment System game, this sequel has you searching for the "Lost Treasure of McDuck" as Uncle Scrooge.

Absolute Nintendo takes a casual look at SNK's Baseball Stars, one of the deepest, innovative, and most unique sports games of its time.

Based on the 1991 Disney cult classic film, which grows in popularity with each passing year.

Bandai's 1989 Zapper game "Separates The Hot Shots From The Pot Shots," or so it aims to.

The arcade triumph Q*bert jumps onto the Nintendo Entertainment System, courtesy of Ultra Games.

Short and tough, Gumshoe is a "quick-on-the-trigger Light Gun game!"

A karate-themed episode with a pair of early NES games closer to white belts than black belts.

"Tanks for saving Earth."

Tengen's late-80s port of the mid-80s racer from Atari is fleeting fun on NES

Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart endorsed this arcade smash. A gritty NES version with 4-player support later arrived (ported by Rare).

8-bit video pinball with a twist

Two mid-'80s arcade shooters became late-'80s NES ports.

Who is Cirque Verte? Season 7 of Absolute Nintendo begins, curious how Nintendo ended up publishing a Zapper game that was this "NES hard" in 89/90.

With Tecmo Super Bowl, "enjoy the excitement of football to your heart's content" on the road to the big game in this timeless NES classic.

"Solar Jetman must search through twelve menacing alien worlds in his quest to rebuild the Golden Warpship. Each one filled with savage alien armies, black holes, extreme gravitational forces, warp zones and deadly booby traps."

This duo of early first-party 'Programmable Series' games will have you constructing hairpin twists, 8-bit style.

This fun puzzler from Mr. Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov, gets the Absolute Nintendo treatment.

First released as Donald Duck on the Famicom, Kemco later swapped Disney characters for the Peanuts gang in Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular—a charming, if uneven, kids' game.

"Okay, hero, if you're ready for some hot, fast and exciting action—this is it."

Konami/Ultra's “cross between baseball and gladiatorial combat” can be a high-scoring affair, with battery backup to save your home run ranking.

The Absolute Nintendo Podcast looks at a pair of black box 'Light Gun Series' games.

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"Deep in the jungles of South America, you're on the mission of your life."

Hudson Soft’s colorful NES platformer from late '92 is good fun.

“The Black Shadow Warriors are tough. Against them, most martial artists would be doomed. But you have the training, the practice, the gift of the Double Dragon."

"Victory will come only to the worthy" in this 1990 NES port of the arcade shmup.

A duo of vertically scrolling shooters that originated in mid-80s arcades.

Rescue imprisoned natives captured by the enemy in this NES port of the SNK arcade run and gun game, best played in co-op.

The ninja "Ryu senses danger awaiting him in America."

"Mario Mania" continues on the NES with this popular (but still underrated) adventure through the land of Sub-con.