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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. Of these, 672 were released exclusively in Japan, 187 were released ...
The console was released on July 15, 1983, as the Home Cassette Type Video Game: Family Computer, [note 2] for ¥14,800 (equivalent to ¥18,400 in 2019) with three ports of Nintendo's successful arcade games Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Popeye. The Famicom was slow to gather success; a bad chip set caused the early revisions to crash.
Famicom Disk System disk drive and RAM adapter attached to the Famicom console. The Family Computer Disk System (Famicom Disk System) has a library of 200 [a] games that have been officially licensed by Nintendo. Famicom Disk System games were released only in Japan. Cartridge games are in the list of Nintendo Entertainment System games.
The series consists of emulated Nintendo Entertainment System, Family Computer, and Family Computer Disk System games for the Game Boy Advance. A special edition Game Boy Advance SP that has a similar color pattern to an NES controller (along with a Famicom counterpart in Japan), was released to go along with these games. In Japan, the color of ...
The Family Computer Disk System, [a] commonly shortened to the Famicom Disk System, [b] or just Disk System, is a peripheral for Nintendo's Family Computer home video game console, released in Japan on February 21, 1986.
NES Classic Edition [a] [b] is a dedicated home video game console by Nintendo, that emulates the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Family Computer (Famicom). Originally launched on November 10, 2016, the console aesthetically is a miniature replica of the NES, and it includes a static library of 30 built-in games from the licensed NES library, supporting save states for all of them.
The Twin Famicom [i] is a home video game console produced by Sharp. It was exclusively released in Japan on July 1, 1986, at an introductory price of ¥32,000. [64] [65] The Twin Famicom is a licensed Nintendo product that combines the Famicom and the Famicom Disk System into a single piece of hardware. [66]
In video game parlance, a famiclone is a hardware clone of the Family Computer/Nintendo Entertainment System.They are designed to replicate the workings of, and play games designed for, the Famicom and NES.