If you’re an American in your early thirties, you probably have fond memories of playing Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., and The Legend of Zelda on a Nintendo Entertainment System. After the flameout ...

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 ...

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There have always been slight regional differences between consoles, but when the Nintendo Entertainment System hit store shelves in the fall of 1985 it had been stripped of nearly all the form and ...

Finn is a GameRant writer with his finger on the pulse of industry trends. A lifelong gamer, he has a particular interest in immersive-sims, character action games, and experimental indies. His ...

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 ...

Twitter/X user limonegongbang has surprised the retro community with their new creation: a Famicom conversion to a portable game console with a backlit screen. And if that were not enough, this smart ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. With all the supply issues of the SNES Classic Edition in the U.S.

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 ...

Twenty bucks a pop is a little much to ask for re-issues of classic NES games, especially when several companies have released compilations of games on the Game Boy Advance for that much. But that's ...

More than 30 years after their original releases in 1988 and 1989, both Famicom Detective Club games have received modern remakes on Nintendo Switch. I had never played either game before, but I went ...