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Andy Bundy
Andy BundyJul 27, 2026
Let’s Go to the Moon! – Music Monday – July 27, 2026
Have you ever listened to a video game music track before you played the game and absolutely fell in love with it? In this week's Music Monday, Andy talks about a track that did that for him, inside a difficult NES game!
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DucktalesDucktales Remastered
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 24, 2025
8 Bits & Still Brewin’
As the NES nears the 40th anniversary of its U.S. release, the homebrew scene around it is still putting out some killer games.
nesnintendo
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetDec 2, 2024
Belated Expansion
If you haven’t heard, people are finally using the NES’ forgotten expansion port in commercial products. What took them so long?!
nesnes expansion port
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJan 2, 2024
We Beat The Machine
The story of a 13-year-old gamer crashing the NES version of Tetris in a record-setting run is one of the best stories we have going right now.
tetrisvideo games
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetDec 7, 2022
Willow’s Second Wind
Why the NES game Willow somehow resonates more than the film that inspired it. It might have been the mindset of the company that made it.
willownes
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJul 28, 2020
A True (NES) Advantage
How the NES Advantage, thanks to its long pop-culture reach, came to define the concept of a good controller in the 8-bit console generation.
nintendones
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetAug 16, 2018
The Ballad of Yo! Noid
In the '80s and '90s, advertisers got the idea to market products to kids through video games. The games aren't half-bad (mostly), but they're still ads.
video gamesnintendo
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJul 17, 2018
Duck, Duck, Goose?
What if someone solved one of retro gaming’s biggest headaches and few people noticed? Such is the tale of the Modern Mallard, the great Duck Hunt fix.
duck huntlight gun
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJun 15, 2018
Absolutely Brilliant!
The British company Codemasters, best known for the Game Genie, didn’t let a pesky lack of license get in the way of creating some of the NES’ best games.
nesnintendo
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJun 13, 2018
What if Tedium … Had Lyrics?
A conversation with video game music icon Brent Black (aka Brentalfloss) about his music, thoughts on YouTube, and using your words.
brentalflosscomedy
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 17, 2018
Nintendo Still Rocks
How music from the 8-bit video game era has inspired an entire generation of modern musicians and created new musical genres.
nesnintendo
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 10, 2018
Not Just Nostalgia
The strange and wonderful world of homebrew games for the original Nintendo Entertainment System. Yes, new games are still being made three decades later.
nesnintendo
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMar 29, 2018
It’s New To You
The story of FuncoLand, the retailer that made the used video game market a thing—and how GameStop, which bought Funco, sort of bastardized that mission.
video gamesgames
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetDec 27, 2017
Australian Rules Nintendo
What an Australia-only NES game secretly reveals about many of the early Nintendo games that came out in the United States.
australiabeam games
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJun 21, 2017
It’s A Duck Blur
We may be stuck waiting until August for a DuckTales revival from Disney, but here’s a quick reflection on the importance of the original show.
animationcartoons
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 3, 2017
“It's Weird That it Didn't Seem Weirder”
Don’t Die’s David Wolinsky, a fellow traveler in the world of tech and gaming, offers his take on NESticle’s place in the broader culture of video games.
bloodlust softwaregaming
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 1, 2017
An Extra Serving
The history of NESticle is so rich that some details wouldn’t fit into Ernie's recent Motherboard piece. He’s putting some of them here.
bloodlust softwareemulation
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 19, 2017
A Warped Mindset
How the Nintendo Times, a Nintendo fan site, is covering the release of the NES in real time—three decades after its original release.
gamesnes
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMar 9, 2017
Reverse-Engineering The Industry
Third-party developers weren't always quite so revered in the video game industry, but a pair of legal decisions helped them earn their place at the table.
video gamesnintendo
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJun 16, 2016
The Lost (And Found) Levels
Video games are full of unused content that developers assumed would never been seen. A group of digital archaeologists, however, are proving them wrong.
video gamesretro

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