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 ...

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A fascinating thing about several of the NES games released in 1987 is that they weren’t originally designed for that hardware. Rather, many of them (including Zelda and Metroid) originally launched ...

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 ...

What begins as an introduction to the consoles' different audio processing channels (pulse, triangle, noise and DPCM), soon turns into a history lesson about how audio production developed for the ...

When was the last time you played the original Nintendo Entertainment System? Visiting your parents, perhaps? Huddled in front of an old CRT television, blowing on cartridges in pursuit of one tiny ...

After 39 years since its release, the overseas version of the Family Computer 'Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)' has released the 'NES HUB', a device that uses the expansion slot on the bottom of ...

Well before the NES Mini‘s launch, Nintendo and other companies were already plumbing the nostalgic depths with classic-gaming re-releases, either as boxed items or downloadable software. However, ...