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Back in the day, the Famicom obviously predated the NES and was somewhat of a different console in some respects. It also had an immense following in Japan and is to date still one of the most popular ...

Without Nintendo's Famicom there would be no NES. And without the NES, chances are, the video game industry as we know it would never have existed. It's hard to appreciate history while you're living ...

After announcing the NES Mini for the western market in July, Nintendo is now set to delight fans of its 80s game consoles in Japan with the palm-sized Famicom Mini. The reimagined game system is ...

SUNSOFT is also thinking beyond its initial goal of releasing those three titles, to release the “SUNSOFT-branded gold cartridge” it was unable to release back in the Famicom days. Back then, only ...

TOKYO--Nintendo announced today that it will release a new Game Boy Advance SP model modeled after the company's Famicom console, known in American as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). It will ...

Arc System Works and Million have been developing new Kunio-kun games, the series where River City Ransom and Super Dodgeball Brawlers came from. Kunio and Riki are ready to work out on PS3 with ...

All the way back in 1986, Nintendo released one of its coolest devices ever. And you've likely never heard of it. The Famicom Disk System was an add-on to the Famicom, which was the Japanese version ...

Four new SNES games including Battletoads Double Dragon are on the Nintendo Switch's Online library. Masayuki Uemura, the lead creator of the NES and SNES, has died at 78. Nintendo is adding Rygar, ...

Nintendo has a new skin for the 3DS LL that replicates the classic Super Famicom aesthetic, down to the packaging. The graphic on the back of the system looks like the top of a Super Famicom — the ...

In 1988 and 1989, Nintendo released two murder mystery visual novels in the form of the Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind. A very notable deviation from the usual ...

One of the more interesting gaming footnotes in Nintendo’s long and storied history is its Famicom Detective Club adventure games released back at the end of the 80s. While the games later received ...