Recent games like 'Shovel Knight' and 'Undertale' fall into the "8-bit" style of modern games, but they're only 8-bit in appearance, not in soul. The 8-bit aesthetic was born out of necessity, not ...

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For 8-bit games, simplicity goes a long way. Contemporary games are often marveled at for their verisimilitude. Technology has advanced so much, graphics are often taken for granted. Everything ...

That authentic commitment to the 8-bit gaming era is what makes UFO 50 games so entrancing. If you can buy that UFO Soft was ahead of its time in terms of the genres it’s making games for, it ...

The NES, Atari 2600, the Apple II, the Commodore 64 and the TurboGrafx-16 are just some of the many game consoles and home computers built around the 6502 CPU. And while the 6502 has been pretty mu… ...

The game itself is an 8-bit-style racing game where you move left and right to dodge cars and other obstacles on the road ... Each time you clear a course another Fast X mash-up appears on screen.

This new Game Boy-inspired 8-bit game console is the size of a matchbox. ... The Mini features a monochromatic 128 x 64-pixel OLED screen, a 16MHz ATmega32u4 processor, ...

The game, which is really ... We Can’t Stop Playing The ‘Cocaine Bear’ 8-Bit Video Game. ... Margo Martindale, and Ray Liotta in one of his last on-screen roles. Cocaine Bear gets his own ...

As has become trendy among games of this type, you can switch out of 8-bit mode and into full HD mode, delivering a game that looks far more like the actual cartoon than the 8-bit graphics do. The ...

8BitMods released the VMU Pro, an updated memory card for the Sega Dreamcast. It’s not just a memory card, but also a handheld emulation machine for 8-bit games. The VMU Pro goes up for pre ...

Japanese company Nintendo introduced the Game Boy, its first portable gaming device to take game cartridges, in 1989. Early models boasted a two-inch screen and ran on an 8-bit system.