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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 Nintendo Entertainment System was released in North America, Europe, Australia, Asia, and Brazil. The history of the Nintendo Entertainment System spans the 1982 development of the Family Computer, to the 1985 launch of the NES, to Nintendo's rise to global dominance based upon this platform throughout the late 1980s.
After the video game crash of 1983, Nintendo filled a market gap in the west by releasing the Japanese Famicom home console (1983) as the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985. The innovative NES games Super Mario Bros. (1985) and The Legend of Zelda (1986), both designed by Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka , were highly influential to the ...
The following year, as with the NES, Nintendo distributed a modified version of the Super Famicom to the United States market, titled the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. [86] Launch games for the Super Famicom and Super NES include Super Mario World , F-Zero , Pilotwings , SimCity , and Gradius III . [ 87 ]
By that point Nintendo wanted to bring the console to North America but recognized the faults that the video game crash had caused. It took several steps to redesign the console to make it look less like a game console and rebranded it as the "Nintendo Entertainment System" (NES) for North America to avoid the "video game" label stigma.
However, this did not happen and the console was shown again at the summer CES in June of that year, as an updated version called the Nintendo Entertainment System. [16] The system was released in October 1985 as an experiment within New York City bounds with Super Mario Bros. game bundled. The experiment was successful and showed that people ...
Nintendo and its second parties had some good showings, though: Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 were awesome, New Super Mario Bros Wii let us re-discover the joy of local multiplayer ...
Color TV Game Block Kuzushi was released on April 23, 1979, at ¥13,500. The system was produced by Nintendo, allowing its name to be prominently displayed. [18] Block Kuzushi includes six variations of Breakout, an arcade game released in America by Atari. Nintendo released a clone of Breakout titled Block Fever for Japanese arcades in 1978. [19]