It's a cart for Famicom BASIC. The behaviour is that upon turning on the Famicom, there is nothing on the screen for about 1-2 seconds, and then solid grey with buzzing in the audio. BTW, pulling ...

In the wake of the system's 30th anniversary, we take a look at 10 of Nintendo's 8-bit titles that never made it out of Japan. Nintendo's original 8-bit home console, the Famicom, turned 30 years old ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. That was of the older 3DS though and while it filled my nerdy ...

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The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in 1985, but its Japanese counterpart, the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom for short, came out July 15, 1983, meaning it'll turn 30 soon. Masayuki ...

Nintendo revealed today that it will stop manufacturing its Famicom (NES) and Super Famicom (SNES) consoles in Japan in September. Likewise, Nintendo will also stop its disk-rewriting services for the ...

At this year's annual Tokyo Game Awards, which are held during the Tokyo Game Show, the Family Computer — known as the Famicom or NES (to us) — won the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award ...

If there’s one certainty in life, it is that Nintendo Famicom and similar NES clone consoles are quite literally everywhere. What’s less expected is that they were used for a half-serious attempt at ...

We love it when classic NES / Famicom games just seem to prance onto the Switch eShop with no prior warning (though we just happened to miss the warning for this one - cheers, Time Extension). This ...