Before the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES, there was the Family Computer, or Famicom. Much like the NES Classic Edition in the West, Nintendo has released a similar micro console in Japan ...

Nintendo's Famicom Disk System was released in 1986 in Japan and hasn't had anything developed for it in over 20 years. Until now. Adam Bolton is a contributor for CNET based in Japan. He is, among ...

Nintendo has formally announced the third batch of Famicom Mini titles for the Japanese market. The new list of ten games features titles that were released on the Japan-only Famicom Disk system, an ...

The 174-page artbook included in the Collector’s Edition includes character art created for the remastered version of the game, as well as design documents from the original game’s development. Also ...

If you’re an American in your early thirties, you probably have fond memories of playing Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., and The Legend of Zelda on a Nintendo Entertainment System. After the flameout ...

The Famicom Disk System (or the Family Computer Disk System to give its full title) released in Japan — and Japan only — on 21st February 1986. This Famicom add-on came with a wave of new games on ...

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 ...

Followers of Nintendo's Game Boy Advance SP line will know that the little beauty is available in a multitude of colors. The availability of colors and special edition models vary as much as the ...

It's an end of an era, we suppose. No longer can you bash up your Famicom for flatly refusing to entertain your cartridge of choice and expect Nintendo of Japan to fix it up all pretty for you, like ...

The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in 1985, but its Japanese counterpart, the Nintendo Family Computer, or Famicom for short, came out July 15, 1983, meaning it'll turn 30 soon. Masayuki ...