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720° (NES): Skating, Style, and Survival in 8 Bits

In the late 1980s, when Nintendo’s gray box ruled the world, 720° stood out like a scratched-up skateboard deck at a country club. Released for the NES in 1989 and adapted from Atari’s 1986 arcade hit, 720° was part sports game, part action-survival challenge—a punked-out, quarter-eating experience brought home to a console audience hungry for […]
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10-Yard Fight (NES): The Gridiron Goes 8-Bit

When you think of early sports games on the Nintendo Entertainment System, 10-Yard Fight often gets lost between Tecmo Bowl’s strategic brilliance and Excitebike’s arcade charm. But in 1985, 10-Yard Fight was the one that brought American football into the living room for the first time in pixelated form. It was simple, blocky, and frustratingly […]
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The Forgotten Fangs of the Future: Revisiting 8 Eyes on NES

The NES was a machine built for obsession. It wasn’t about speed-runs or trophies — it was about patience, grit, and learning every pixel of pain the game designers threw at you. Few titles embodied that spirit like 8 Eyes, the 1988 cult adventure from Thinking Rabbit and Taxan. A brooding, side-scrolling odyssey of swords, […]
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