The industrious and accomplished comic artist Dan Spiegle, who drew the later Nester’s Adventures strips in Nintendo Power–as well as many movie, television, and literary adaptations in an Inkpot Award-winning career–died on January 28, 2017 at the age of 96.
To commemorate his passing, I looked back at Nintendo’s once mighty official North American magazine and examined one of Spiegle’s original drawings of that publication’s memorable mascot, Nester.
To find out what these three have in common, check out today’s article, which takes a look at some hand-painted McDonald’s illustrations that were recently unearthed at an Illinois estate sale.
I worked “overtime” to bring you today’s update as quickly as possible: The unreleased Happily Ever After for the Nintendo Entertainment System, based on the 1993 animated movie of the same name, has been found and dumped, courtesy of site contributor Sean McGee. See the article for the download and learn the scandalous story behind this unofficial Snow White sequel.
I never thought that I’d ever have to say this about a prototype, but this Daikatana Game Boy Color development cartridge, which came directly from DOOM designer John Romero, has too many differences. Documenting them all was a colossal challenge that involved taking nearly 2,000 comparison screenshots over a period of months.
Leave behind any prejudices that you may have about the PC first-person shooter because, as an old-school-Zelda-inspired throwback, the handheld Daikatana‘s right on point.
How’s this for a coincidence: I chanced upon a poorly listed auction and took home an original model miniature that was made by the developers of the Philips CD-i game Zelda’s Adventure. Just days later, news broke about another incredibly rare relic from this era, the “Nintendo Play Station,” discovered outside of Philadelphia, in Bucks County, only a minute’s drive away from me. Nothing exciting ever happens around here, game-wise, but in one week, these two semi-related pieces from the past practically collided with one another.
You’ve likely read about the Play Station by now, but to learn more about my find and an unreleased CD-i game that previously had zero online coverage, check out the full story here.
(My thanks to Jason Bakutis and Scott Kravitz for mailing me materials for this article.)
Today I come bearing a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters Super Nintendo sample, the latest conquest in my psychopathic mission to gain Turtle Power. This marks the seventh Ninja Turtles pre-release video game that I’ve featured here on the site.
Don’t get too excited because this one turned out to be a dud. But as they say, the journey is more important than the destination, and on this journey, I gave up my healthy diet regiment in order to raid Ninja Turtles co-creator Kevin Eastman’s private stash for some of his mutagenic ooze.
How’s that for a headline? Eat your heart out, Gawker.
This is bar none the strangest thing that I have ever written on this site. The Super Mario presentation storyboard that you see pictured above may appear innocent looking enough, but wait until you hear about the simulated self-mutilation and the computer-generated demonic possession.
Those with a weak stomach and an aversion to S&M are urged to stay far away from today’s article.
If you ever wanted to read about a Powhatan Chief and a gaming CEO go off on The Walt Disney Company, you’ve come to the right place.
Speaking as a fully grown man, this is one of those updates by which I should be humiliated, but thankfully I killed whatever healthy shame I used to have years ago. Now by choice I am covering a children’s video game about a talking cartoon poriferan.
If you’re too mature for the likes of SpongeBob SquarePants, don’t leave just yet because this article also takes a look at a neat new USB-powered Game Boy Color dumper called the Altane Cartridge Programmer. As a word of warning, though, you may want to skip the part about David Hasselhoff’s unwashed bathing suit.
Today’s article deals with a few original cereal box illustrations that were used by Kellogg’s in the mid-1990s to promote the Super Nintendo games Donkey Kong Country and Star Fox. The page also includes some insight from the owner of the design agency, whose job was to direct this Nintendo-approved artwork.
