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Nintendo based the VS. System hardware on the Famicom, and introduced it as the successor to its Nintendo-Pak arcade system, which had been used for games such as Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong 3. Though technologically weaker than Nintendo's Punch-Out!! arcade hardware, the VS. System was relatively inexpensive.
This category includes a list of Nintendo Entertainment System games released on Nintendo VS. System arcade systems. Pages in category "Nintendo VS. System games"
It was developed and published by Konami for the Nintendo Entertainment System. [1] It was released in North America in November 1987, [2] Japan on in December 1987, [3] and then in Europe a year later. [4] [5] [6] It is an adaptation of VS. Top Gun, a 1987 Nintendo VS. System arcade game also by Konami.
Tennis released for the Nintendo VS. System the same year, becoming a hit at Japanese and American arcades that year; it was the sixth top-performing arcade game of 1984 in the United States. Tennis is one of 17 launch games for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in North America and Europe. The game was re-released for the Game Boy as a ...
The PlayChoice-10 is an arcade system developed and marketed by Nintendo. Released in August 1986 as the successor to the Nintendo VS. System, the PlayChoice-10 was developed as a means to showcase NES games while maintaining revenue from the arcade business; it did so by allowing players to test up to ten games, one at a time.
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.
First released on cartridge, it was later re-released in Disk System format in 1988. [3] Although the game was never sold in retail in North America, Nintendo published an arcade port in North America for the VS. System (a coin-operated platform which runs on the same hardware as the NES) under the title VS.
The Game Boy is the first handheld game console sold by Nintendo that features interchangeable ROM cartridges for each game, unlike the Game & Watch that has a different system for each game. Released in 1989 in Japan, it is one of the world's best-selling game console lines, with over 100 million units sold worldwide. [ 6 ]