One of the bestselling consoles of its time, the NES helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983. and the action-adventure games The Legend of Zelda and Metroid, each of which became long-running Nintendo franchises.
The NES featured a number of groundbreaking games, such as the platform game Super Mario Bros. Several add-ons were released, such as a light gun for shooting games. The controller design was reused from Nintendo's portable Game & Watch games. Rejecting proposals for a more complex console, president Hiroshi Yamauchi called for a simple, cheap design that ran games stored on cartridges. The NES, a redesigned version, made its debut in American test markets in October 1985, before becoming widely available in the rest of North America and other countries.Īfter developing a series of successful arcade games in the early 1980s, Nintendo planned to create a home video game console.
It was first released as the Family Computer ( FC), commonly known as the Famicom, in 1983 in Japan. The Nintendo Entertainment System ( NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced by Nintendo. Ricoh 2A03 8-bit processor ( MOS Technology 6502 core) JP: Septem( September 25, 2003) (Famicom).
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