Researched one game at a time
Long-form introductions built from official records, manuals, interviews and inspectable archives—with every displayed image credited to its Nintendo page.
The story library
Game story
Nintendo’s Disk System Pro Wrestling makes its biggest moves arrive in a tiny window after two wrestlers lock up. Six deliberately strange personalities, a referee who has to reach a pin, a perilous twenty-count outside and a long road to Great Puma turn that timing test into a miniature wrestling promotion.
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The Japanese Super Famicom original makes its eight-person party feel less like a roster than a set of travel tools: dragon, fisher, flyer, sea merchant, mole, smith, hunter and thief all teach the map a new verb.
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Star Soldier sends the tiny Caesar through a floating continent toward the artificial intelligence Star Brain, but it never lets the mission settle into simple survival. Five-way fire, hidden ground targets, disappearing terrain, Lazarus parts and a famously hungry score table turn every fixed wave into a question of rhythm.
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Culture Brain’s 1986 action game looks like a sequence of tiny kung-fu arenas, but its punchable walls, limited Miracle Kicks, peculiar treasures and two-player improvisation make every square of Chinese Land worth treating with suspicion.
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Super Puyo Puyo Tsū takes Arle Nadja up a tower full of familiar rivals, but its real drama happens above the playfield. By letting players cancel incoming garbage, see two pairs ahead, reverse a trapped pair, and turn an empty board into a threat, the 1995 Super Famicom original makes timing as important as construction.
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Nintendo and Argonaut’s polygonal driving experiment puts a monster truck, a coupe, a formula car and a shy unlocked bike on roads that rise, fall, narrow and misbehave—then asks the player to learn every one of their temperaments.
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Rushing Beat Ran begins with two fighters walking into an artificial island and ends, if the player is persistent, with five distinct ways to clear its clone-filled stages. Between those points it makes running, throwing, getting back up and striking a fallen enemy feel like parts of one impatient action grammar.
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The Japanese Super Famicom original turns a pastel platform adventure into a series of small acts of care: find the right friend, use the right power, notice the person in trouble, and discover that the apparently final victory was only the beginning.
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The 1994 Japanese Super Famicom original turns Red Arremer into a wary explorer of his own underworld. Hovering, clinging, crests, and magic turn every newly opened route into a question about what his body can do now.
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Nintendo's 1990 Japanese Super Famicom original makes sky sports feel wonderfully personal: read the radar, respect fuel, chase rings, and discover that an elegant landing is harder than simply reaching the ground.
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The 1991 Japanese Super Famicom original makes Arthur’s quest look like a bright storybook nightmare. His new double jump opens the sky, but every landing becomes a promise he cannot take back.
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The 1994 Japanese Super Famicom Joe & Mac adventure turns club-swinging action into a surprisingly domestic quest: recover seven rainbow stones, rebuild a house, and make a village worth returning to.
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