Interview with Marco Turri

After seeing the scans of a UK 1991 Nintendo Club and having unleashed people looking for him all over the Italian territories, thanks to some friend’s efforts we finally found him! And here, as promised on the facebook pages, here is the interview we done with Marco Turri, the first Italian Nintendo fan documented.

Super Mario Bros. 2 Story

It was 1988, Nintendo of America released the highly anticipated sequel of Super Mario Bros. and players got addicted by it. But the game was quite different from the first installment of the series. You are Mario, yeah, but you're no longer jumping on Goombas and Koopas, main action was driven to picking vegetables out of the ground and throwing them in enemies face!
Bowser, the one who kidnapped Princess Peach in the first game was replaced with Wart, a giant toad instead of a giant spiked turtle! When this game was out I thought it was a little weird to be a Mario game... but when Super Mario Brothers 3 came out on the market, everything that was in the first one was back: Bowser, koopas, fire fortress/bowser castles, power ups and many many new great stuff to play with across the levels but still more similar to the first game.
Nintendo never share the secret of this game for years... let's find out on Tales from the Nes the story of Super Mario Bros. 2.

Forgotten games: Return of Donkey Kong!

 Hi Nes enthusiasts!
We always love to recover something that was previously object of investigation and that's the case.
We were digging around for some informations like everynight and suddenly came to our mind that we talked about Power Glove's cancelled games that never saw the ligh.! What "cancelled" means?
For some reason, they never manage to get on the shelves, many of them got blocked before going into production facilities, others got publisher or licensing issues.

Tales from the NES presents: "Beating Mike"

Enjoy the video, play the game!

Power Glove's Secret Games

Today we want to uncover a story behind the Mattel's Power Glove for the Nintendo Entertainment System!
When Power Glove was released and featured in "The Wizard" movie everyone was shocked: could that glove be so cool?
Answer was...

The new Tales from the NES is online!

Hey guys, welcome back on Tales from the NES! We are almost ready to launch our blog to try to give a much more readable style to our magazine. When all the old cotents from the facebook page will be uploaded here, we will start with some new fresh featured interviews and new titles for the "Black Box Compendium" will be added!
Get hooked!