A fan of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter R.O.B. has succeeded in getting a real-life R.O.B. toy to control its in-game likeness. It's an impressive display that speaks to the missed potential of ...

To help sell people on its new console after the 1983 video game crash, Nintendo branded the NES as a complete “Entertainment System”, which included a robotic ...

Too busy playing video games to have a social life? No worries. In 1985, Nintendo introduced R.O.B. — otherwise known as the Robotic Operating Buddy. It was made to play Nintendo with you. In Japan, ...

Sitting in my living room is Nintendo's Robotic Operating Buddy, who has not touched an NES controller in years. My curiousity piqued as to what R.O.B. mods were done, I didn't find much at all, so ...

Nintendo’s R.O.B. might have been a really crappy peripheral, but without it we wouldn’t have Rock Band or Guitar Hero – we might not even have Nintendo, or gaming as we know it at all. Twenty-five ...

We admit that a hack enabling a 34-year-old video game peripheral to be controlled by a mobile app wasn’t something we were expecting to see today, but if controlling something with something else isn ...