Nintendo Entertainment System

The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home

Nintendo Entertainment
video game console produced, released and marketed by Nintendo. It is a
System
remodeled export version of the company's Family Computer[a] (FC) platform
in Japan, commonly known as the Famicom[b], which was launched on July 15,
1983. The NES was launched in the test markets of New York City and Los
Angeles in 1985, with a full launch in the rest of North America and parts of
Europe in 1986, followed by Australia and other European countries in 1987.
Brazil saw only unlicensed clones until the official local release in 1993. In
South Korea, it was packaged as the Hyundai Comboy[c] and distributed by
Hyundai Electronics which is now SK Hynix; the Comboy was released in
1989.

As the best-selling gaming console of its time, the NES helped revitalize the US
video game industry following the North American video game crash of
1983.[11] With the NES, Nintendo introduced a now-standard business model of
licensing third-party developers, authorizing them to produce and distribute
games for Nintendo's platform.[12] It had been preceded by Nintendo's first
home video game console, the Color TV-Game, and was succeeded by the
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).

Contents
History Top: NES control deck with controller
Development Bottom: Family Computer
Release ("Famicom") main unit with controller
Discontinuation Also known as Family
Hardware Computer/Famicom
Configurations (Japan)
Design flaws
Hyundai Comboy
Lockout
(Korea)
Famicom 3D System
Famicom Modem Developer Nintendo R&D2
Technical specifications Manufacturer Nintendo
Accessories
Controllers Type Home video game
Japanese accessories console
Family Computer Disk System Generation Third generation
Hardware clones
Release date JP: July 15, 1983
NES Test Station
(Famicom)
Games
Game Pak NA:
Third-party licensing October 18, 1985[1]
Unlicensed games
 Game rentals EU:
Reception September 1, 1986
a[›]
Legacy
Emulation EU/AU: 1987
Re-release
BR: 1993
See also
Lifespan 1983–2003
Notes
Transliterations (Famicom)[2] 1985–
1995 (NES)
References
External links Introductory ¥14,800 (Japan)
price $179 (US Deluxe
Set)[3]
History Discontinued NA:
August 14, 1995
(NES)[5][6]
Development
JP: September 25,
Following a series of arcade game successes in the early 1980s, Nintendo made 2003 (Famicom)[4]
plans to create a cartridge-based console called the Famicom, which is short for
Units sold Worldwide: 61.91
Family Computer. Masayuki Uemura designed the system.[13][14] Original
million
plans called for an advanced 16-bit system which would function as a full-
Japan: 19.35
fledged computer with a keyboard and floppy disk drive, but Nintendo president
million
Hiroshi Yamauchi rejected this and instead decided to go for a cheaper, more
America: 34.00
conventional cartridge-based game console as he believed that features such as
million
keyboards and disks were intimidating to non-technophiles. A test model was
Other: 8.56
constructed in October 1982 to verify the functionality of the hardware, after
million[7]
which work began on programming tools. Because 65xx CPUs had not been
manufactured or sold in Japan up to that time, no cross-development software Media ROM cartridge
was available and it had to be produced from scratch. Early Famicom games ("Game Pak")b[›]
were written on a system that ran on an NEC PC-8001 computer and LEDs on a CPU Ricoh 2A03 8-bit
grid were used with a digitizer to design graphics as no software design tools for processor (MOS
this purpose existed at that time.[15] Technology 6502
core)
The code name for the project was "GameCom", but Masayuki Uemura's wife
Controller 2 controller portsc[›]
proposed the name "Famicom", arguing that "In Japan, 'pasokon' is used to
input 1 expansion slot
mean a personal computer, but it is neither a home or personal computer.
Perhaps we could say it is a family computer." Meanwhile, Hiroshi Yamauchi Best-selling
Super Mario
decided that the console should use a red and white theme after seeing a game
Bros. (pack-in),
billboard for DX Antenna (a Japanese antenna manufacturer) which used those
40.24 million (as
colors.[15]
of September 13,

The creation of the Famicom was hugely influenced by the ColecoVision, 2010)[8]

Coleco's competition against the Atari 2600 in the United States. Takao Super Mario
Sawano, chief manager of the project, brought a ColecoVision home to his Bros. 3 (pack-
family, who were impressed by the system's capability to produce smooth in), 18 million
graphics at the time,[16] which contrasts with the flicker and slowdown (as of July 27,
commonly seen on Atari 2600 games. Uemura, head of Famicom development, 2008)[9]
stated that the ColecoVision set the bar for the Famicom.[17]
Original plans called for the Famicom's cartridges to be the size of a cassette Super Mario
tape, but ultimately they ended up being twice as big. Careful design attention Bros. 2,
was paid to the cartridge connectors because loose and faulty connections often 10 million[10]
plagued arcade machines. As it necessitated 60 connection lines for the memory
Predecessor Color TV-Game
and expansion, Nintendo decided to produce its own connectors.[15]
Successor Super Nintendo
The controllers are hard-wired to the console with no connectors for cost Entertainment
reasons. The game pad controllers were more-or-less copied directly from the System
Game & Watch machines, although the Famicom design team originally wanted Related Famicom Disk
to use arcade-style joysticks, even dismantling some from American game articles System, Famicom
consoles to see how they worked. There were concerns regarding the durability 3D System
of the joystick design and that children might step on joysticks on the floor.
Katsuyah Nakawaka attached a Game & Watch D-pad to the Famicom prototype and found that it was easy to use and caused no
discomfort. Ultimately though, they installed a 15-pin expansion port on the front of the console so that an optional arcade-style
joystick could be used.[15]

Gunpei Yokoi suggested an eject lever to the cartridge slot which is not really necessary, but he believed that children could be
entertained by pressing it. Uemura adopted his idea. Uemura added a microphone to the second controller with the idea that it
could be used to make players' voices sound through the TV speaker.[18][15]

Release
The console was released on July 15, 1983 as the Family Computer (or Famicom) for ¥14,800 (equivalent to ¥18,400 in 2019)
alongside three ports of Nintendo's successful arcade games Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr. and Popeye. The Famicom was slow
to gather momentum; a bad chip set caused the initial release of the system to crash. Following a product recall and a reissue with
a new motherboard, the Famicom's popularity soared, becoming the best-selling game console in Japan by the end of
1984.[19]:279, 285

Nintendo also had its sights set on the North American market, entering into negotiations with Atari to release the Famicom under
Atari's name as the Nintendo Advanced Video Gaming System. The deal was set to be finalized and signed at the Summer
Consumer Electronics Show in June 1983. However, Atari discovered at that show that its competitor Coleco was illegally
demonstrating its Coleco Adam computer with Nintendo's Donkey Kong game. This violation of Atari's exclusive license with
Nintendo to publish the game for its own computer systems delayed the implementation of Nintendo's game console marketing
contract with Atari. Atari's CEO Ray Kassar was fired the next month, so the deal went nowhere, and Nintendo decided to market
its system on its own.[19]:283–285g[›]

Subsequent plans for the Nintendo Advanced Video System likewise never
materialized: a North American repackaged Famicom console featuring a
keyboard, cassette data recorder, wireless joystick controller, and a special
BASIC cartridge.[19]:287 By the beginning of 1985, more than 2.5 million
Famicom units had been sold in Japan, and Nintendo soon announced plans to
release it in North America as the Advanced Video Entertainment System (AVS)
The proposed Advanced Video
that same year. The American video game press was skeptical that the console
System bundle, including cassette
could have any success in the region, as the industry was still recovering from
drive and wireless accessories.
the video game crash of 1983. The March 1985 issue of Electronic Games
magazine stating that "the videogame market in America has virtually
disappeared" and that "this could be a miscalculation on Nintendo's part".[20]
At June 1985's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Nintendo unveiled the American version of its Famicom, with a new case
redesigned by Lance Barr and featuring a "zero insertion force" cartridge slot.[21] The change from a top-loader in the Famicom
to a front-loader was to make the new console more like a video cassette recorder, which had grown in popularity by 1985, and
differentiate the unit from past video game consoles.[22] This would eventually be officially deployed as the Nintendo
Entertainment System, or the colloquial "NES". Nintendo seeded these first systems to limited American test markets starting in
New York City on October 18, 1985, and followed up with a full North American release in February 1986.[23] The nationwide
release came in September 1986. Nintendo released 17 launch games: 10-Yard Fight, Baseball, Clu Clu Land, Duck Hunt,
Excitebike, Golf, Gyromite, Hogan’s Alley, Ice Climber, Kung Fu, Pinball, Soccer, Stack-Up, Tennis, Wild Gunman, Wrecking
Crew, and Super Mario Bros.[24]h[›] For expedient production, some varieties of these launch games contain Famicom chips with
an adapter inside the cartridge so they play on North American consoles, which is why the title screens of Gyromite and Stack-Up
have the Famicom titles "Robot Gyro" and "Robot Block", respectively.[25]

The system's launch represented not only a new product, but also a reframing of
the severely damaged home video game market. The 1983 video game crash had
occurred in large part due to a lack of consumer and retailer confidence in video
games, which had been partially due to confusion and misrepresentation in video
game marketing. Prior to the NES, the packaging of many video games
presented bombastic artwork which exaggerated the graphics of the actual game.
In terms of product identity, a single game such as Pac-Man would appear in
many versions on many different game consoles and computers, with large
variations in graphics, sound, and general quality between the versions. In stark
contrast, Nintendo's marketing strategy aimed to regain consumer and retailer
confidence by delivering a singular platform whose technology was not in need
of exaggeration and whose qualities were clearly defined.

To differentiate Nintendo's new home platform from the perception of a troubled

and shallow video game market still reeling from the 1983 crash, the company R.O.B. (Robotic Operating Buddy),
freshened its product nomenclature and established a strict product approval and an accessory for the NES's 1985
licensing policy. The overall platform is referred to as "Entertainment System" launch. Although it ended up having
instead of a "video game system", is centered upon a machine called a "Control a short product lifespan, R.O.B. was
initially used to market the NES as
Deck" instead of a "console", and features software cartridges called "Game
novel and sophisticated compared to
Paks" instead of "video games". This allowed Nintendo to gain more traction in
previous game consoles.
selling the system in toy stores.[26][27] To deter production of games which had
not been licensed by Nintendo, and to prevent copying, the 10NES lockout chip
system act as a lock-and-key coupling of each Game Pak and Control Deck. The packaging of the launch lineup of NES games
bear pictures of close representations of actual onscreen graphics. To reduce consumer confusion, symbols on the games'
packaging clearly indicate the genre of the game. A seal of quality is on all licensed game and accessory packaging. The initial
seal states, "This seal is your assurance that Nintendo has approved and guaranteed the quality of this product". This text was
later changed to "Official Nintendo Seal of Quality".[28]

Unlike with the Famicom, Nintendo of America marketed the console primarily to children, instituting a strict policy of censoring
profanity, sexual, religious, or political content. The most famous example is Lucasfilm's attempts to port the comedy-horror
game Maniac Mansion to the NES, which Nintendo insisted be considerably watered down. Nintendo of America continued its
censorship policy until 1994 with the advent of the Entertainment Software Rating Board system, coinciding with criticism
stemming from the cuts made to the Super NES port of Mortal Kombat compared to the Sega Genesis'.

The optional Robotic Operating Buddy, or R.O.B., was part of a marketing plan to portray the NES's technology as being novel
and sophisticated when compared to previous game consoles, and to portray its position as being within reach of the better
established toy market. Though at first, the American public exhibited limited excitement for the console itself, peripherals such
as the light gun and R.O.B. attracted extensive attention.[29]

In Europe, Oceania, and Canada, the system was released in two separate marketing regions. The first consisted of mainland
Europe (excluding Italy) where distribution was handled by a number of different companies, with Nintendo responsible for most
cartridge releases. Most of this region saw a 1986 release. The release in the Netherlands was in Q4 1987, where it was
distributed by Bandai BV.[30] In 1987 Mattel handled distribution for the second region, consisting of the United Kingdom,
Ireland, Canada, Italy, Australia and New Zealand. Not until the 1990s did Nintendo's newly created European branch direct
distribution throughout Europe.[31]:413–414e[›]

In Brazil, the console was released late in 1993 by Playtronic, even after the SNES. But the Brazilian market had been dominated
by unlicensed NES clones — both locally made, and smuggled from China and Taiwan.[32] One of the most successful local
clones is the Phantom System, manufactured by Gradiente, which would end up licensing Nintendo products in the country for
the following decade.[33] The sales of officially licensed products were low, due to the cloning, the quite late official launch, and
the high prices of Nintendo's licensed products.[34]

For its complete North American release, the Nintendo Entertainment System
was progressively released over the ensuing years in four different bundles: the
Deluxe Set, the Control Deck, the Action Set and the Power Set. The Deluxe Set,
retailing at US$179.99 (equivalent to $453 in 2018),[3] included R.O.B., a light
gun called the NES Zapper, two controllers, and two Game Paks: Gyromite, and
Duck Hunt. The Basic Set retailed at US$89.99 with no game, and US$99.99
bundled with the Super Mario Bros. cartridge. The Action Set, retailing in
The Nintendo Entertainment
November 1988 for US$149.99, came with the Control Deck, two game System's Control Deck
controllers, an NES Zapper, and a dual Game Pak containing both Super Mario
Bros. and Duck Hunt.[5][19]:305 In 1989, the Power Set included the console, two
game controllers, an NES Zapper, a Power Pad, and a triple Game Pak containing Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, and World
Class Track Meet. In 1990, a Sports Set bundle was released, including the console, an NES Satellite infrared wireless multitap
adapter, four game controllers, and a dual Game Pak containing Super Spike V'Ball and Nintendo World Cup.[35] Two more
bundle packages were later released using the original model NES console. The Challenge Set of 1992 included the console, two
controllers, and a Super Mario Bros. 3 Game Pak for a retail price of US$89.99. The Basic Set, first released in 1987, was
repackaged for a retail US$89.99. It included only the console and two controllers, and no longer was bundled with a
cartridge.[35] Instead, it contained a book called the Official Nintendo Player's Guide, which contained detailed information for
every NES game made up to that point.

Finally, the console was redesigned for both the North American and Japanese markets as part of the final Nintendo-released
bundle package. The package included the new style NES-101 console, and one redesigned "dogbone" game controller. Released
in October 1993 in North America, this final bundle retailed for US$49.99 and remained in production until the discontinuation of
the NES in 1995.[5]

Discontinuation
On August 14, 1995, Nintendo discontinued the Nintendo Entertainment System in both North America and Europe.[36]

The Famicom was officially discontinued in September 2003. Nintendo offered repair service for the Famicom in Japan until
2007, when it was discontinued due to a shortage of available parts.[36]

Hardware
Configurations
Although the Japanese Famicom, North American and European NES versions included essentially the same hardware, there
were certain key differences among the systems.

The original Japanese Famicom was predominantly white plastic, with dark red trim. It featured a top-loading cartridge slot,
grooves on both sides of the deck in which the hardwired game controllers could be placed when not in use, and a 15-pin
expansion port located on the unit's front panel for accessories.[37]

The original NES, meanwhile, featured a front-loading cartridge covered by a small, hinged door that can be opened to insert or
remove a cartridge and closed at other times. It features a more subdued gray, black, and red color scheme. An expansion port
was found on the bottom of the unit and the cartridge connector pinout was changed.

In the UK, Italy and Australia which share the PAL-A region, two versions of the NES were released; the "Mattel Version" and
"NES Version".[38] When the NES was first released in those countries, it was distributed by Mattel and Nintendo decided to use
a lockout chip specific to those countries, different from the chip used in other European countries. When Nintendo took over
European distribution in 1990, it produced consoles that were then labelled "NES Version"; therefore, the only differences
between the two are the text on the front flap and texture on the top/bottom of the casing.

In October 1993, Nintendo redesigned the NES to follow many of the same
design cues as the newly introduced Super Nintendo Entertainment System and
the Japanese Super Famicom. Like the SNES, the NES-101 model loads
cartridges through a covered slot on top of the unit replacing the complicated
mechanism of the earlier design.

In December 1993, the Famicom received a similar redesign. It also loads

The NES-101 control deck alongside
cartridges through a covered slot on the top of the unit and uses non-hardwired
its similarly redesigned NES-039
controllers. Because HVC-101 uses composite video output instead of being RF
game controller.
only like the HVC-001, Nintendo marketed the newer model as the AV
Famicom.[d] Since the new controllers don't have microphones on them like the
second controller on the original console, certain games such as the Disk System
version of The Legend of Zelda and Raid on Bungeling Bay have certain tricks
that cannot be replicated when played on an HVC-101 Famicom without a
modified controller. In October 1987, Nintendo released a 3D stereoscopic
headset called the Famicom 3D System (HVC-031) in Japan only.

Design flaws
Nintendo's design styling for US release was made deliberately different from
The HVC-101 control deck alongside
that of other game consoles. Nintendo wanted to distinguish its product from its similarly redesigned HVC-102
those of competitors and to avoid the generally poor reputation that game game controller.
consoles had acquired following the North American video game crash of 1983.
One result of this philosophy is to disguise the cartridge slot design as a front-
loading zero insertion force (ZIF) cartridge socket, designed to resemble the front-loading mechanism of a VCR. The newly
designed connector works quite well when both the connector and the cartridges are clean and the pins on the connector are new.
Unfortunately, the ZIF connector is not truly zero insertion force. When a user inserts the cartridge into the NES, the force of
pressing the cartridge down and into place bends the contact pins slightly, as well as pressing the cartridge's ROM board back into
the cartridge itself. Frequent insertion and removal of cartridges cause the pins to wear out from repeated usage over the years
and the ZIF design prove more prone to interference by dirt and dust than an industry-standard card edge connector.[39] These
design issues are exacerbated by Nintendo's choice of materials; the console slot nickel connector springs wear due to design and
the game cartridge copper connectors are also prone to tarnishing.[40] Many
players try to alleviate issues in the game caused by this corrosion by blowing
into the cartridges, then reinserting them, which actually speeds the
tarnishing.[41][42]

Lockout
The Famicom contains no lockout hardware and, as a result, unlicensed
The VCR-like loading mechanism of
cartridges (both legitimate and bootleg) were extremely common throughout
the NES led to problems over time.
Japan and the Far East.[43] The original NES (but not the top-loading NES-101)
The design wears connector pins out
contain the 10NES lockout chip, which significantly increased the challenges quickly and easily become dirty,
faced by unlicensed developers. Hobbyists in later years discovered that resulting in difficulties with the NES
disassembling the NES and cutting the fourth pin of the lockout chip would reading Game Paks.
change the chip's mode of operation from "lock" to "key", removing all effects
and greatly improving the console's ability to play legal games, as well as
bootlegs and converted imports. NES consoles sold in different regions have
different lockout chips, so games marketed in one region do not work on
consoles from another region. Known regions are these: USA/Canada (3193
lockout chip); most of Europe (3195); Asia (3196); and UK, Italy, and Australia
(3197). Because two types of lockout chip were released in Europe, European
NES game boxes often have an "A" or "B" letter on the front, indicating whether
the game is compatible with UK/Italian/Australian consoles (A), or the rest of The 10NES authentication chip
Europe (B). Games in the rest of Europe typically have text on the box stating contributed to the system's reliability
problems. The circuit was ultimately
"This game is not compatible with the Mattel or NES versions of the Nintendo
removed from the remodeled NES 2.
Entertainment System". Similarly, UK/Italy/Australia games state "This game is
only compatible with the Mattel or NES versions of the Nintendo Entertainment
System".

Problems with the 10NES lockout chip frequently result in the console's most infamous problem: the blinking red power light, in
which the system appears to turn itself on and off repeatedly because the 10NES would reset the console once per second. The
lockout chip required constant communication with the chip in the game to work.[31]:247 Dirty, aging, and bent connectors often
disrupt the communication, resulting in the blink effect.[39] Alternatively, the console would turn on but only show a solid white,
gray, or green screen. Users may attempt to solve this problem by blowing air onto the cartridge connectors, inserting the
cartridge just far enough to get the ZIF to lower, licking the edge connector, slapping the side of the system after inserting a
cartridge, shifting the cartridge from side to side after insertion, pushing the ZIF up and down repeatedly, holding the ZIF down
lower than it should have been, and cleaning the connectors with alcohol. Many of the most frequent attempts to fix this problem
instead risk damaging the cartridge or system.[44] In 1989, Nintendo released an official NES Cleaning Kit to help users clean
malfunctioning cartridges and consoles.

With the release of the top-loading NES-101 (NES 2) toward the end of the NES's lifespan, Nintendo resolved the problems by
switching to a standard card edge connector and eliminating the lockout chip. All of the Famicom systems use standard card edge
connectors, as do Nintendo's two subsequent game consoles, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and the Nintendo 64.

In response to these hardware flaws, "Nintendo Authorized Repair Centers" sprang up across the U.S. According to Nintendo, the
authorization program was designed to ensure that the machines were properly repaired. Nintendo would ship the necessary
replacement parts only to shops that had enrolled in the authorization program. In practice, the authorization process consisted of
nothing more than paying a fee to Nintendo for the privilege.
Famicom 3D System
Nintendo released a stereoscopic headset peripheral called Famicom 3D System. This was never released outside Japan, since it
was a commercial failure, making some gamers experience headaches and nausea.

Famicom Modem
Nintendo released a modem peripheral called Famicom Modem. This was not intended for traditional games but for gambling on
real horse races, stock trading, and banking.

Technical specifications
For its CPU, the NES uses the Ricoh 2A03, an 8-bit microprocessor containing a
MOS Technology 6502 core, running at 1.79 MHz for the NTSC NES and
1.66 MHz for the PAL version.

The NES contains 2 kB of onboard work RAM.[45] A game cartridge may

contain expanded RAM to increase this amount. The sizes of NES games vary
from 8 kB (Galaxian) to 1 MB (Metal Slader Glory), but 128 to 384 kB is the
most common.

The NES[46] uses a custom-made Picture Processing Unit (PPU) developed by The motherboard of the NES. The
two largest chips are the Ricoh-
Ricoh. All variations of the PPU feature 2 kB of video RAM, 256 bytes of on-
produced CPU and PPU.
die "object attribute memory" (OAM) to store the positions, colors, and tile
indices of up to 64 sprites on the screen, and 28 bytes of on-die palette RAM to
allow selection of background and sprite colors. The console's 2 kB of onboard RAM may be used for tile maps and attributes on
the NES board and 8 kB of tile pattern ROM or RAM may be included on a cartridge. The system has an available color palette
of 48 colors and 6 grays. Up to 25 simultaneous colors may be used without writing new values mid-frame: a background color,
four sets of three tile colors, and four sets of three sprite colors. The NES palette is based on NTSC rather than RGB values. A
total of 64 sprites may be displayed onscreen at a given time without reloading sprites mid-screen. The standard display
resolution of the NES is 256 horizontal pixels by 240 vertical pixels.

Video output connections vary between console models. The original HVC-001 model of the Family Computer features only
radio frequency (RF) modulator output. The North American and European consoles have support for composite video through
RCA connectors in addition to the RF modulator. The HVC-101 model of the Famicom omits the RF modulator entirely and has
composite video output via a proprietary 12-pin "multi-out" connector first introduced on the Super Famicom and Super Nintendo
Entertainment System. Conversely, the North American re-released NES-101 model most closely resembles the original HVC-
001 model Famicom, in that it features RF modulator output only.[47] Finally, the PlayChoice-10 utilizes an inverted RGB video
output.

The stock NES supports a total of five sound channels, two of which are pulse channels with 4 pulse width settings, one is a
triangle wave generator, another is a noise generator (often used for percussion), and the fifth one plays low-quality digital
samples.

The NES supports expansion chips contained in certain cartridges to add sound channels and help with data processing.
Developers can add these chips to their games, such as the Konami VRC6, Konami VRC7, Sunsoft 5B, Namco 163, and two
more by Nintendo itself: the Nintendo FDS wave generator (a modified Ricoh RP2C33 chip with single-cycle wave table-lookup
sound support), and the Nintendo Memory Management Controller 5 (MMC5).[48] Due to wiring differences between the
Famicom and NES, a stock NES console is incapable of passing through audio generated by expansion chips utilizing additional
sound channels, but can be modified to regain this capability.[49][50]
Accessories

Controllers
The game controller used for both the NES and the Famicom features an oblong
brick-like design with a simple four button layout: two round buttons labeled
"A" and "B", a "START" button, and a "SELECT" button.[51] Additionally, the
controllers utilize the cross-shaped joypad, designed by Nintendo employee
Gunpei Yokoi for Nintendo Game & Watch systems, to replace the bulkier
joysticks on earlier gaming consoles' controllers.[19]:279
In addition to featuring a revised
The original model Famicom features two game controllers, both of which are color scheme that matched the more
hardwired to the back of the console. The second controller lacks the START subdued tones of the console itself,
NES controllers are detached and
and SELECT buttons, but features a small microphone. Relatively few games
lack the microphone featured in
use this feature. The earliest produced Famicom units have square A and B
Famicom controllers.
buttons.[47] This was changed to the circular designs because of the square
buttons being caught in the controller casing when pressed down and glitches
within the hardware causing the system to freeze occasionally while playing a game.

Instead of the Famicom's hardwired controllers, the NES features two custom 7-pin ports on the front of the console to support
swappable and potentially third-party controllers. The controllers bundled with the NES are identical and include the START and
SELECT buttons, allowing some NES versions of games, such as The Legend of Zelda, to use the START button on the second
controller to save the game at any time. The NES controllers lack the microphone, which is used on the Famicom version of
Zelda to kill certain enemies, or for singing with karaoke games.[37]

A number of special controllers are for use with specific games, though are not
very popular. Such devices include the Zapper light gun, the R.O.B.,[19]:297 and
the Power Pad.[31]:226[52] The original Famicom features a deepened DA-15
expansion port on the front of the unit, which is used to connect most auxiliary
devices.[37] On the NES, these special controllers are generally connected to one
of the two control ports on the front of the console.
The NES Zapper, a light gun
Nintendo made two advanced controllers for the NES called NES Advantage accessory
and the NES Max. Both controllers have a Turbo feature, where one press of the
button represents multiple automatic rapid presses. This feature allows players to
shoot much faster in shooter games. The NES Advantage has two knobs that adjust the firing rate of the turbo button from quick
to Turbo, as well as a "Slow" button that slows down compatible games by rapidly pausing the game. The NES Max has a non-
adjustable Turbo feature and no "Slow" feature, and has a wing-like handheld shape and a sleek directional pad. Turbo
functionality exists on the NES Satellite, the NES Four Score, and the U-Force. Other accessories include the Power Pad and the
Power Glove, which is featured in the movie The Wizard.

Near the end of the NES's lifespan, upon the release of the AV Famicom and the top-loading NES 2, the design of the game
controllers was modified slightly. Though the original button layout was retained, the controller's shape resembles that of the
SNES's controller. In addition, the AV Famicom dropped the hardwired controllers in favor of detachable controller ports. The
controllers included with the Famicom AV have 90 cm (3 feet) long cables, compared to the 180 cm (6 feet) of NES
controllers.[53]

The original NES controller has become one of the most recognizable symbols of the console. Nintendo has mimicked the look of
the controller in several other products, from promotional merchandise to limited edition versions of the Game Boy Advance.[54]
Japanese accessories
Few of the numerous peripheral devices and software packages for the Famicom,
were released outside Japan.

Family BASIC is an implementation of BASIC for the Famicom, packaged with

a keyboard. Similar in concept to the Atari 2600 BASIC cartridge, it allows the
user to write programs, especially games, which can be saved on an included
cassette recorder.[55] Nintendo of America rejected releasing Famicom BASIC in The Japanese Famicom has BASIC
support with the Family BASIC
the US because it did not think it fit their primary marketing demographic of
keyboard.
children.[31]:162

The Famicom Modem connected a Famicom to a now defunct proprietary

network in Japan which provided content such as financial services.[56] A dialup modem was never released for NES.

Family Computer Disk System

In 1986, Nintendo released the Famicom Disk System (FDS) in Japan, a type of
floppy drive that uses a single-sided, proprietary 5 cm (2") disk and plugs into
the cartridge port. It contains RAM for the game to load into and an extra single-
cycle wavetable-lookup sound chip. The disks are used both for storing the game
and saving progress, with a total capacity of 128k (64k per side). The disks were
originally obtained from kiosks in malls and other public places where buyers
could select a game and have it written to the disk. This process cost less than
cartridges and users could take the disk back to a vending booth and have it
rewritten with a new game, or the high score faxed to Nintendo for national
leaderboard contests.
The Disk System peripheral for the
A variety of games for the FDS were released by Nintendo (including some Japanese Famicom, uses games on
which had already been released on cartridge, such as Super Mario Bros.), and "Disk Cards" with a 3" Quick Disk
mechanism.
third party companies such as Konami, Taito, or unlicensed publishers. Its
limitations became quickly apparent as larger ROM chips were introduced,
allowing cartridges with greater than 128k of space. More advanced memory management chips (MMC) soon appeared and the
FDS quickly became obsolete. Nintendo also charged developers high prices to produce FDS games, and many refused to
develop for it, instead continuing to make cartridge games. After only two years, the FDS was discontinued, although vending
booths remained in place until 1993 and Nintendo continued to service drives, and to rewrite and offer replacement disks until
2003. Approximately four million drives were sold.

Nintendo did not release the Disk System outside Japan due to numerous problems encountered with the medium in Japan, and
due to the increasing data storage capacity and reducing cost of the highly reliable cartridge medium.[57] As a result, many Disk
System games such as Castlevania, The Legend of Zelda, and Bubble Bobble were converted to cartridge format for their export
releases, resulting in simplified sound and the disk save function replaced by passwords or battery save systems.

Hardware clones
A thriving market of unlicensed NES hardware clones emerged during the climax of the console's popularity. Initially, such
clones were popular in markets where Nintendo never issued a legitimate version of the console. In particular, the Dendy
(Russian: Де́нди), an unlicensed hardware clone produced in Taiwan and sold in the former Soviet Union, emerged as the most
popular video game console of its time in that setting and it enjoyed a degree of fame roughly equivalent to that experienced by
the NES/Famicom in North America and Japan. A range of Famicom clones was marketed in Argentina during the late 1980s and
early 1990s under the name of "Family Game", resembling the original hardware
design. The Micro Genius (Simplified Chinese: 小 天 才 ) was marketed in
Southeast Asia as an alternative to the Famicom; Samurai was the popular PAL
alternative to the NES; and in Central Europe, especially Poland, the Pegasus
was available.[58] Since 1989, there were many Brazilian clones of NES,[34] and
the very popular Phantom System (with hardware superior to the original
console) caught the attention of Nintendo itself.[33] Pirated clones of NES hardware
remained in production for many
The unlicensed clone market has flourished following Nintendo's discontinuation years after the original had been
of the NES. Some of the more exotic of these resulting systems surpass the discontinued. Some clones play
functionality of the original hardware, such as a portable system with a color cartridges from multiple systems,
LCD (PocketFami). Others have been produced for certain specialized markets, such as this FC Twin that plays NES
and SNES games.
such as a rather primitive personal computer with a keyboard and basic word
processing software.[59] These unauthorized clones have been helped by the
invention of the so-called NES-on-a-chip.[60]

As was the case with unlicensed games, Nintendo has typically gone to the
courts to prohibit the manufacture and sale of unlicensed cloned hardware. Many
of the clone vendors have included built-in copies of licensed Nintendo software,
which constitutes copyright infringement in most countries.
The RetroUSB AVS, an FPGA-based
Although most hardware clones were not produced under license by Nintendo, hardware clone of the NES that
certain companies were granted licenses to produce NES-compatible devices. outputs 720p via HDMI.
The Sharp Corporation produced at least two such clones: the Twin Famicom
and the SHARP 19SC111 television. The Twin Famicom is compatible with both
Famicom cartridges and Famicom Disk System disks.[61]:29 Like the Famicom, it is red and black and has hardwired controllers,
but has a different case design. The SHARP 19SC111 television includes a built-in Famicom.[62] A similar licensing deal was
reached with Hyundai Electronics, who licensed the system under the name Comboy in the South Korean market. This deal with
Hyundai was made necessary because of the South Korean government's wide ban on all Japanese "cultural products", which
remained in effect until 1998 and ensured that the only way Japanese products could legally enter the South Korean market was
through licensing to a third-party (non-Japanese) distributor (see also Japan–Korea disputes).[63] In India, the system was sold
under the name Samurai and assembled locally under license from kits due to policies that banned imports of electronics.[64]

NES Test Station

The NES Test Station diagnostics machine was introduced in 1988. It is a NES-
based unit designed for testing NES hardware, components, and games. It was
only provided for use in World of Nintendo boutiques as part of the Nintendo
World Class Service program. Visitors were to bring items to test with the
station, and could be assisted by a store technician or employee.

The NES Test Station's front features a Game Pak slot and connectors for testing
various components (AC adapter, RF switch, Audio/Video cable, NES Control
Deck, accessories and games), with a centrally-located selector knob to choose The NES Test station (Lower Left),
which component to test. The unit itself weighs approximately 11.7 pounds SNES counter tester (Lower Right),
SNES test cart (Upper Right), And
without a TV. It connects to a television via a combined A/V and RF Switch
the original TV that came with the
cable. By actuating the green button, a user can toggle between an A/V Cable or
unit (Upper Left).
RF Switch connection. The television it is connected to (typically 11" to 14") is
meant to be placed atop it.[65]
In 1991, Nintendo provided an add-on called the "Super NES Counter Tester"
that tests Super Nintendo components and games. The SNES Counter Tester is a
standard SNES on a metal fixture with the connection from the back of the
SNES re-routed to the front of the unit. These connections may be made directly
to the test station or to the TV, depending on what is to be tested.

Games NES test station AC adapter Pass or

Fail test demonstration.
The Nintendo Entertainment System has a number of groundbreaking games.
Super Mario Bros. pioneered side-scrollers and The Legend of Zelda helped
popularize battery-backed save functionality.

Game Pak
The NES uses a 72-pin design, as compared with 60 pins on the Famicom. To reduce costs
and inventory, some early games released in North America are simply Famicom
cartridges attached to an adapter to fit inside the NES hardware.[25] Early NES cartridges
are held together with five small slotted screws. Games released after 1987 were
redesigned slightly to incorporate two plastic clips molded into the plastic itself, removing
the need for the top two screws.[66]

The back of the cartridge bears a label with handling instructions. Production and software
revision codes were imprinted as stamps on the back label to correspond with the software
version and producer. All licensed NTSC and PAL cartridges are a standard shade of gray
plastic, with the exception of The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, North American and PAL
NES cartridges (or "Game
which were manufactured in gold-plastic carts. Unlicensed carts were produced in black,
Paks") are significantly
robin egg blue, and gold, and are all slightly different shapes than standard NES
larger than Japanese
cartridges. Nintendo also produced yellow-plastic carts for internal use at Nintendo Famicom cartridges.
Service Centers, although these "test carts" were never made available for purchase. All
licensed US cartridges were made by Nintendo, Konami, and Acclaim. For promotion of
DuckTales: Remastered, Capcom sent 150 limited-edition gold NES cartridges with the original game, featuring the Remastered
art as the sticker, to different gaming news agencies. The instruction label on the back includes the opening lyric from the show's
theme song, "Life is like a hurricane".[67]

Famicom cartridges are shaped slightly differently. Unlike NES games, official Famicom cartridges were produced in many
colors of plastic. Adapters, similar in design to the popular accessory Game Genie, are available that allow Famicom games to be
played on an NES. In Japan, several companies manufactured the cartridges for the Famicom.[31]:61 This allowed these
companies to develop their own customized chips designed for specific purposes, such as superior sound and graphics.

Third-party licensing
Nintendo's near monopoly on the home video game market left it with a dominant influence over the industry. Unlike Atari,
which never actively pursued third-party developers (and even went to court in an attempt to force Activision to cease production
of Atari 2600 games), Nintendo had anticipated and encouraged the involvement of third-party software developers, though
strictly on Nintendo's terms.[68] Some of the Nintendo platform-control measures were adopted in a less stringent way by later
console manufacturers such as Sega, Sony, and Microsoft.
To this end, a 10NES authentication chip is in every console and in every
officially licensed cartridge. If the console's chip can not detect a counterpart
chip inside the cartridge, the game does not load.[31]:247 Nintendo portrayed
these measures as intended to protect the public against poor-quality games,[69]
and placed a golden seal of approval on all licensed games released for the
system.

Nintendo was not as restrictive as Sega, which did not permit third-party
publishing until Mediagenic in late summer 1988.[70] Nintendo's intention was
The Famicom Family mark appeared
to reserve a large part of NES game revenue for itself. Nintendo required that it
in games and peripherals from 1988
be the sole manufacturer of all cartridges, and that the publisher had to pay in
that were approved by Nintendo for
full before the cartridges for that game be produced. Cartridges could not be compatibility with official Famicom
returned to Nintendo, so publishers assumed all the risk. As a result, some consoles and derivatives.
publishers lost more money due to distress sales of remaining inventory at the
end of the NES era than they ever earned in profits from sales of the games.
Because Nintendo controlled the production of all cartridges, it was able to enforce strict rules on its third-party developers,
which were required to sign a contract by Nintendo that would obligate these parties to develop exclusively for the system, order
at least 10,000 cartridges, and only make five games per year.[31]:214–215 The global 1988 shortage of DRAM and ROM chips
reportedly caused Nintendo to only permit an average of 25% of publishers' requests for cartridges, with some receiving much
higher amounts and others almost none.[69] GameSpy noted that Nintendo's "iron-clad terms" made the company many enemies
during the 1980s. Some developers tried to circumvent the five game limit by creating additional company brands like Konami's
Ultra Games label and others tried circumventing the 10NES chip.[68]

Nintendo was accused of antitrust behavior because of the strict licensing requirements.[71] The United States Department of
Justice and several states began probing Nintendo's business practices, leading to the involvement of Congress and the Federal
Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC conducted an extensive investigation which included interviewing hundreds of retailers.
During the FTC probe, Nintendo changed the terms of its publisher licensing agreements to eliminate the two-year rule and other
restrictive terms. Nintendo and the FTC settled the case in April 1991, with Nintendo required to send vouchers giving a $5
discount off to a new game, to every person that had purchased a NES game between June 1988 and December 1990. GameSpy
remarked that Nintendo's punishment was particularly weak giving the case's findings, although it has been speculated that the
FTC did not want to damage the video game industry in the United States.[68]

With the NES near its end of its life many third-party publishers such as Electronic Arts supported upstart competing consoles
with less strict licensing terms such as the Sega Genesis and then the PlayStation, which eroded and then took over Nintendo's
dominance in the home console market, respectively. Consoles from Nintendo's rivals in the post-SNES era had always enjoyed
much stronger third-party support than Nintendo, which relied more heavily on first-party games.

Unlicensed games
Companies that refused to pay the licensing fee or were rejected by Nintendo found ways to circumvent the console's
authentication system. Most of these companies created circuits that use a voltage spike to temporarily disable the 10NES
chip.[31]:286 A few unlicensed games released in Europe and Australia are in the form of a dongle to connect to a licensed game,
in order to use the licensed game's 10NES chip for authentication. To combat unlicensed games, Nintendo of America threatened
retailers who sold them with losing their supply of licensed games, and multiple revisions were made to the NES PCBs to prevent
unlicensed games from working.

Atari Games took a different approach with its line of NES products, Tengen. The company attempted to reverse engineer the
lockout chip to develop its own "Rabbit" chip. Tengen also obtained a description of the lockout chip from the United States
Patent and Trademark Office by falsely claiming that it was required to defend against present infringement claims. Nintendo
successfully sued Tengen for copyright infringement. Tengen's antitrust claims against Nintendo were never decided.[71]

Color Dreams made Christian video games under the subsidiary name Wisdom Tree. Historian Steven Kent wrote, "Wisdom Tree
presented Nintendo with a prickly situation. The general public did not seem to pay close attention to the court battle with Atari
Games, and industry analysts were impressed with Nintendo's legal acumen; but going after a tiny company that published
innocuous religious games was another story."[19]:400

Game rentals
As the Nintendo Entertainment System grew in popularity and entered millions of American homes, some small video rental
shops began buying their own copies of NES games, and renting them out to customers for around the same price as a video
cassette rental for a few days. Nintendo received no profit from the practice beyond the initial cost of their game, and unlike
movie rentals, a newly released game could hit store shelves and be available for rent on the same day. Nintendo took steps to
stop game rentals, but didn't take any formal legal action until Blockbuster Video began to make game rentals a large-scale
service. Nintendo claimed that allowing customers to rent games would significantly hurt sales and drive up the cost of
games.[72] Nintendo lost the lawsuit,[73] but did win on a claim of copyright infringement.[74] Blockbuster was banned from
including original, copyrighted instruction booklets with its rented games. In compliance with the ruling, Blockbuster produced
original short instructions—usually in the form of a small booklet, card, or label stuck on the back of the rental box—that
explained the game's basic premise and controls. Video rental shops continued the practice of renting video games.

Reception
By 1988, industry observers stated that the NES's popularity had grown so quickly that the market for Nintendo cartridges was
larger than that for all home computer software.[75][19]:347 Compute! reported in 1989 that Nintendo had sold seven million NES
systems in 1988 alone, almost as many as the number of Commodore 64s sold in its first five years.[76] "Computer game makers
[are] scared stiff", the magazine said, stating that Nintendo's popularity caused most competitors to have poor sales during the
previous Christmas and resulted in serious financial problems for some.[77]

In June 1989, Nintendo of America's vice president of marketing Peter Main,

said that the Famicom was present in 37% of Japan's households.[78] By 1990,
30% of American households owned the NES, compared to 23% for all personal
computers.[79] By 1990, the NES had outsold all previously released consoles
worldwide.[80] The slogan for this brand was "It can't be beaten".[31]:345 In
Europe and South America, the NES was outsold by Sega's Master
System,[81][82] while the Nintendo Entertainment System was not available in
the Soviet Union.

In the early 1990s, gamers predicted that competition from technologically

superior systems such as the 16-bit Sega Genesis would mean the immediate end
of the NES's dominance. Instead, during the first year of Nintendo's successor
console the Super Famicom (named Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Comparison of NES from different
outside Japan), the Famicom remained the second highest-selling video game
regions. From top: Japanese
console in Japan, outselling the newer and more powerful NEC PC Engine and
Famicom, European NES and
Sega Mega Drive by a wide margin.[83] The launch of the Genesis was American NES
overshadowed by the launch of Super Mario Bros. 3 for NES. The console
remained popular in Japan and North America until late 1993, when the demand
for new NES software abruptly plummeted.[83] The final licensed Famicom game released in Japan is Takahashi Meijin no Bōken
Jima IV (Adventure Island IV), in North America is Wario's Woods, and in Europe is The Lion King in 1995.[84] In the wake of
ever decreasing sales and the lack of new games, Nintendo of America officially discontinued the NES by 1995.[5][85] Nintendo
produced new Famicom units in Japan until September 25, 2003,[86] and continued to repair Famicom consoles until October 31,
2007, attributing the discontinuation of support to insufficient supplies of parts.[87][88]

Legacy
The NES was released two years after the North American video game crash of 1983, when many retailers and adult consumers
regarded electronic games as a passing fad,[19]:280 so many believed at first that the NES would soon fade.[77] Before the NES
and Famicom, Nintendo was known as a moderately successful Japanese toy and playing card manufacturer, but the consoles'
popularity helped the company grow into an internationally recognized name almost synonymous with video games as Atari had
been,[89] and set the stage for Japanese dominance of the video game industry.[90] With the NES, Nintendo also changed the
relationship between console manufacturers and third-party software developers by restricting developers from publishing and
distributing software without licensed approval. This led to higher-quality games, which helped change the attitude of a public
that had grown weary from poorly produced games for earlier systems.[19]:306–307

The NES hardware design is also very influential. Nintendo chose the name "Nintendo Entertainment System" for the US market
and redesigned the system so it would not give the appearance of a child's toy. The front-loading cartridge input allow it to be
used more easily in a TV stand with other entertainment devices, such as a videocassette recorder.[91][92][93]

The system's hardware limitations led to design principles that still influence the development of modern video games. Many
prominent game franchises originated on the NES, including Nintendo's own Super Mario Bros.,[61]|:57 The Legend of
Zelda[19]:353 and Metroid,[19]:357 Capcom's Mega Man[94] franchise, Konami's Castlevania[19]:358 franchise, Square's Final
Fantasy,[61]|:95 and Enix's Dragon Quest[61]|:222 franchises.

NES imagery, especially its controller, has become a popular motif for a variety of products,[95][96][97][98] including Nintendo's
own Game Boy Advance.[54] Clothing, accessories, and food items adorned with NES-themed imagery are still produced and
sold in stores.

Emulation
The NES can be emulated on many other systems. The first emulator is the Japanese-only Pasofami. It was soon followed by
iNES, which is available in English and is cross-platform, in 1996. It was described as being the first NES emulation software
that could be used by a non-expert.[99] NESticle, a popular MS-DOS-based emulator, was released on April 3, 1997. Nintendo
offers officially licensed emulation of many specific NES games via its own Virtual Console for the Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii
U, and the Nintendo Switch Online service.

Re-release
On July 14, 2016, Nintendo announced the November 2016 launch of a miniature replica of the NES, named the Nintendo
Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition in the United States and Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System in
Europe and Australia.[100] The emulation-based console includes 30 permanently inbuilt games from the vintage NES library,
including the Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda series. The system features HDMI display output and a new replica
controller, which can also connect to the Wii Remote for use with Virtual Console games.[101][102] It was discontinued in North
America on April 13, 2017, and worldwide on April 15, 2017. However, Nintendo announced in September 2017 that the NES
Classic Mini would return to production on June 29, 2018.[103]

See also
History of Nintendo
 Nintendo Hard
Nintendo World Championships
NES Classic Edition

Notes
^ a: For distribution purposes, Europe and Australasia were divided into two regions by Nintendo. The first of these regions
consisted of France, West Germany, Scandinavia and Spain and saw the NES released during 1986. In the Netherlands the
console was released in Q4 1987. The console was released in the second region, consisting of the United Kingdom, the Republic
of Ireland, and Italy, as well as Australia and New Zealand, in 1987.
^ b: In Japan, Nintendo sold an optional expansion peripheral for the Famicom, called the Famicom Disk System, which enables
the console to run software from proprietary floppy disks.
^ c: The original Famicom features two hardwired game controllers and a single port for additional input devices. See game
controllers section.
^ e: The NES is the overall best-selling system worldwide of its time. In Japan and the United States, it controlled 85-90% of the
market.[31]:349 In Europe, it was at most in 10-12% of households.[31]:413-414 Nintendo sold 61.9 million NES units worldwide:
19.35 million in Japan, 34 million in the Americas, and 8.5 million in other regions.[7]
^ f: The commonly bundled game Super Mario Bros. popularized the platform game genre and introduced elements that would
be copied in many subsequent games[104]
^ g: Atari broke off negotiations with Nintendo in response to Coleco's unveiling of an unlicensed port of Donkey Kong for its
Coleco Adam computer system. Although the game had been produced without Nintendo's permission or support, Atari took its
release as a sign that Nintendo was dealing with one of its major competitors in the market.[19]:283–285
^ h: Donkey Kong Jr. Math and Mach Rider are often erroneously included in lists of launch titles. In reality, neither title was
available until later in 1986.[24]

Transliterations
a. Japanese: ファミリーコンピュータ Hepburn: Famirī Konpyūta
b. Japanese: ファミコン Hepburn: Famikon
c. In Hangul, 현대 컴보이 (Hyeondae Keomboi).
d. Japanese: AV仕様ファミコン Hepburn: Eibui Shiyō Famikon

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