If there’s one certainty in life, it is that Nintendo Famicom and similar NES clone consoles are quite literally everywhere. What’s less expected is that they were used for a half-serious attempt at ...

40 years ago the videogame industry started to undergo a seismic shift, but it would take over two years for almost anybody in North America to realize it. On July 15, 1983, while the games industry ...

Your carefree 20s are over, Famicom. No more gallivanting. It’s time to settle down—find a nice wife, get a stable job, maybe put a down payment on a house. You’re 30 now. The Famicom—or Family ...

Coming soon to Japan: the Game Axe Color, a color handheld game system that will play Famicom games. This unlicensed system is compatible with most, if not all, games that were released on the Famicom ...

The NES was Nintendo’s smash hit console of the 1980s, the international version of their Japanese Famicom system. It wasn’t ...