The NES is the most important video game console of all time, and plenty of its games still hold up perfectly in 2026.

The NES wasn’t just a console — it was a cultural reset that shaped gaming forever. From platformers to RPGs, its library introduced mechanics and characters still loved today. Decades later, these ...

The Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, first launched in America on October 18th, 1985. That was the date it launched its test market, and then it would release nationwide in 1986. Even after ...

The Nintendo Entertainment System wasn’t the first home video game console, but it was arguably the most transformative in the industry. When it was released in North America in 1985, it saved the ...

Josh Speer has been writing about videogames for more than a decade now, but he's loved them since he was a small boy. He grew up with Mario and Mega Man, moved onto RPGs with Chrono Trigger and Final ...

The Nintendo Entertainment System gave the console video game industry the adrenaline injection it needed after the market crash in the early ’80s. One of the reasons the NES was such a success is ...

Today's younger generations associate Nintendo mostly with portable gaming, but for much of the 1980s and early 1990s, Nintendo was almost synonymous with the home console. Without the Nintendo ...