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The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit home video game console produced by Nintendo. It was first released in Japan on July 15, 1983, as the Family Computer (Famicom). [note 1] It was released in US test markets as the redesigned NES in October 1985, and fully launched in the US the following year. The NES was distributed in Europe ...
In North America, the NES sold 1.1 million units in 1986, [91] out of worldwide sales of 3 million that year. [11] By 1988, the console had sold 12 million units in Japan and was projected to top 10 million in the United States by the end of the year. [92] The NES widely outsold its primary competitors, the Master System and the Atari 7800. The ...
An NES cartridge (top) is taller than a typical Famicom cartridge. The Nintendo Entertainment System has a library of 1376 [ a ] officially licensed games released for the Japanese version, the Family Computer (Famicom), and its international counterpart, the NES, during their lifespans, plus 7 official multicarts and 2 championship cartridges.
This is a list of cancelled Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System video games. The Family Computer , nicknamed the Famicom for short, is a 1983 video game console produced by Nintendo. The system would be redesigned and brought to Western markets as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985.
It was released for the MSX2 computer and remade on the NES shortly after. Metroid (NES) by R&D1 and Nintendo initiated the Metroid series in 1986. Ninja Gaiden (NES) by Tecmo initiated the Ninja Gaiden series in 1988, and was acclaimed for its extreme difficulty, high quality music, and for having one of the earliest uses of cutscenes in video ...
The Sharp Nintendo Television, often described as the C1 NES TV, is a CRT television with a built-in Famicom/NES that was produced by Sharp under license from Nintendo. It was originally released in Japan in October 1983 as the My Computer TV ; [ h ] [ 54 ] it was also distributed in Taiwan via Sampo as the Sampo C1 starting in 1984. [ 55 ]
The advent of YouTube put virtually every music video in history at your fingertips, making MTV—so radically inventive just a generation earlier—as obsolete as FM radio.
By the end of the decade, 30% of American households owned the NES, compared to 23% for all personal computers. [4] Industry observers concluded that the NES's popularity had grown so quickly that the market for Nintendo cartridges was larger than that for all home computer software. [5] [1]: 347