In 1985, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) redefined home gaming, but its innovations meant nothing without a way to control them. The console’s innovative architecture, as explored in ...

It’s a suitably blocky, low-resolution implementation, but it nevertheless is a mapping app running on an NES. Zooming in and out is via the A and B buttons, while the D-pad is used to scroll.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x23TWrInpI&w=580] Released 25 years ago, the Nintendo Power Pad, a plastic mat that plugged into an NES, saw very limited ...