The Famicom game console at the Computer and Video Game Console Museum of Helsinki in 2012įollowing a series of arcade game successes in the early 1980s, Nintendo made plans to create a cartridge-based console called the Family Computer, or Famicom. In 2011, IGN named the NES the greatest video game console of all time. It was succeeded in 1990 by the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. and the action-adventure games The Legend of Zelda and Metroid, which became long-running franchises. The NES featured a number of groundbreaking games, such as the platform game Super Mario Bros. It introduced a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers to produce and distribute games. The NES was one of the bestselling consoles of its time, and helped revitalize the US game industry following the video game crash of 1983. Several add-ons were released, such as a light gun for shooting games.
The controller design was reused from Nintendo's portable Game & Watch games. Rejecting more complex proposals, president Hiroshi Yamauchi called for a simple, cheap console that ran games stored on cartridges. The NES, a redesigned version, was released in American test markets in October 1985, before becoming widely available in the rest of North America and other countries.Īfter developing a series of successful arcade games in the early 1980s, Nintendo planned to create a home video game console. It was first released in Japan in 1983 as the Family Computer ( FC), commonly known as the Famicom. The Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo. Ricoh 2A03 8-bit processor ( MOS Technology 6502 core) JP: Septem( September 25, 2003) (Famicom).Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.