Without Nintendo's Famicom there would be no NES. And without the NES, chances are, the video game industry as we know it would never have existed. It's hard to appreciate history while you're living ...
Nintendo's Famicom released in Japan on July 15, 1983 and it brought gaming into many of our homes for the first time. VG247's Dave Cook casts his mind back to the console's UK release and legacy. Say ...
You’ll read a lot about the U.S. video games industry’s financial nosedive in 1983, as if that crash — when U.S. consumers walked away from a glut of lackluster games and billions of dollars in ...
At this point in time, the gaming industry is preparing itself for the next generation of consoles, led by Microsoft's Xbox One and the PlayStation 4. However, if we take ourselves back exactly 30 ...
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Even the most vehement Nintendo fan in the world can't possibly have access to one of many Nintendo's storage rooms, where an expansive array of nostalgic paraphernalia sits. Boxes upon boxes of ...
More than 30 years after their original releases in 1988 and 1989, both Famicom Detective Club games have received modern remakes on Nintendo Switch. I had never played either game before, but I went ...
All the way back in 1986, Nintendo released one of its coolest devices ever. And you've likely never heard of it. The Famicom Disk System was an add-on to the Famicom, which was the Japanese version ...
Bandai Namco has released a memorial video in celebration of the Tales of series’ 30th anniversary. The first entry in the series, Tales of Phantasia, launched for Super Famicom on December ...