Even for today’s standards my brother and I had fun playing this game. I mean there is a PlayStation 2 and sometimes a Nintendo Wii sitting there but instead we took out the old Atari 2500 and slapped in some Wizard of Wor and started playing.

Originally developed as an arcade came in the early 1980’s by Midway and later released on other consoles such as the Atari 2600, 800 and the Commodore Wizard of Wor did quite well for itself and can still be enjoyed by many retro gamers.

You and your friend each play a team of warriors that must rid the dungeons of evil. There are many monsters that roam the dungeons and you must defeat them all and kill the Wizard. Just be careful not to hit your ally while your roaming the dungeon or he or she will loose a life.

Overall it’s a great game and pretty fun to play. You have to use your imagination somewhat because many games back then were mostly the same idea and especially this one how you wander around a small level defeating enemies can be much like Pac-Man.

Very interested and informative video about the NES 2 Top Loader system that was released by Nintendo in 1993. He has lots of great information about this console that is not very common. Having being released shortly before the Nintendo Entertainment System was on it’s way out the door.

I can remember first using this and thinking what a great idea it was to be able to play my game boy games on my Super Nintendo. I used to play my Game Boy Final Fantasy games on my SNES along with Final Fantasy 4 and Final Fantasy 6.

The Super Game Boy was released by Nintendo in 1994 and allowed gamers to use their original Game Boy games on their Super Nintendo Entertainment System. In the United States the Super Game Boy sold for about 60 dollars, now you can find it on eBay for probably 20 dollars.

I though we would now talk about one of my favorite games and a great accessory that came with it, it’s the SNES Mouse. When I was a kid I would go to the video game store pretty much every day to see if Mario paint was available for rent. I was usually turned down as it was always rented but some days I would get it and run home playing it for hours.

The overall idea of playing a game with a mouse was a new concept for a lot of gamers at the time and for most the Nintendo mouse did not appeal to them. I on the other hand loved it and like I said above would play it for hours and soon enough I did not have to run up to see if the game was available for rent.

I can’t remember if it was on my birthday or for Christmas but my mom bought me a brand new copy of Mario paint and I couldn’t be more happy with it.

For those who don’t really know what I’m talking about the SNES Mouse was an accessory that was released by Nintendo in 1992 originally as a controller for the game Mario Paint. Many other games followed after Mario Paint that also could use the SNES Mouse.

It’s Monday again time to get back to work and somehow that sparked an idea to do a week long look at Nintendo accessories for the Super Nintendo. I decided that we would start off with the Super Scope 6 since it hasn’t been that long since I enjoyed playing it.

The Super Scope was released by Nintendo in the early 90’s and only worked with maybe six games. The gun itself is quite big and much larger then the earlier Nintendo Light Gun. While I though it was fun to play many other games said otherwise.

The main problem with the Super Scope 6 is the battery life and how it takes 6 batteries to power the gun. Other problems include eye strain and arm strain from the way you hold the gun to play. The Super Scope can be found on eBay for a fair price so it’s not to collectible, at least not yet.

The Super Scope was not very popular and never really took off but it’s still fun to give these old accessories a go even if they are shunned by the video game community. I mean we are retro gamers so we should at least give them a chance because you never know you may have fun playing them.

I just recently purchased this game off eBay complete with manual and box, pretty excited to get this game. I have played it years ago when I rented it from a video game store and remember it being a fun role-playing game with good music, graphics and a decent storyline.

That’s the benefit of buying from eBay you can find pretty much any game on there for a great price. Some of you are probably saying that I could just download the rom and get an emulator but personally I rather playing the game on my television and actually owning the copy of the game.

Sorcerer’s Kingdom was developed and released by Treco in 1993 during the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis wars. Your character is a young boy who is the son of Kanan a great adventurer. You must stop evil from taking over the land, seems pretty basic eh?

During the game you find weapons and armor to equip your character with. You also find allies that help you along during your quest. Think of Final Fantasy while playing this game, it may seem sort of dull but it’s actually a great game and a forgotten classic.

We all know we can pass this game in a short time but actually watching it is very cool. Crazy how fast the player moves though the levels almost like he plays the game in his sleep. When I first seen this video on YouTube some people mentioned that it was a bot playing and not the player.

I think this one is the player however, I mean he stops to wait for enemies to pass by at somepoint early in the game play which I don’t think an automated bot would be programmed do to. If you did you would have spent far more time working on a bot to play a game instead of practicing yourself.

Sounds pretty pathetic if you ask me, either way a great vid of a classic game for the Nintendo Entertainment System

I still like talking about them and playing them the odd time however I’m more of the retro gamer, thus why I created VG Retro. I find that old games have never really left us and are still played daily by thousands. I mean how many people can honestly afford to spend 300 - 400 dollars or more on a new console?

I came to the conclusion that I am going to start playing an old game starting with probably an old favorite of mine Final Fantasy 4 for the Super Nintendo. I’ll play though the game during my weekends off in another attempt to get me back into gaming. My friends usually bug me into buying a new console and I’m pretty close to breaking down and buying a Nintendo Wii.

If not Final Fantasy I think I will finish the game I almost finished sometime last year, I’d stay up till late on a Friday night (yes I’m a geek) playing Soul Blazer for the Super Nintendo which is a classic action/rpg if you haven’t played it already.

Speaking of Soul Blazer I wouldn’t mind getting a copy of Act Raiser again to, these are both great games and now that I’m thinking about it I am going to start playing retro games daily. It’s hard to get back into something that you used to love doing but they are classic games and they always bring back fond memories of playing them.

I had a post late last month about a portable Sega Genesis which I though was pretty cool however the games were built into the console. This portable Super Nintendo you can just put any cartridge in the back of it and go ahead and play.

Its about time someone tried this, very neat idea that does not require a lot of work. Basically take your old non-working NES and strip the guys from it and somehow fit a cheap DVD player into the NES body. Many DVD players nowadays are very tiny so this mod can be easy to pull off.

Its sad to see many NES consoles being modded and not being played but the fact that many of them cannot be repaired due to wear is to blame. Then again there are sometimes ways to repair them while other times they are gone for good.

Cheers to this guy who did manage to turn his old beloved NES into something cool.